Economy

At audience in Yaounde: Customs DG, visiting SGS officials discuss improving revenue security.

Visiting SGS delegation at audience with Customs boss in Yaounde

Ways of harnessing the customs revenue security programme, for the Cameroon Customs Department, has come under review.
Discussions to this effect dominated an audience the Director General of Customs, Edwin Fongod Nuvaga, granted a delegation of officials from Swiss multinational company, Societe Generale Surveillance, SGS.
The delegation from the Geneva-based world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, was received at the Bastos-Yaounde head office of the Customs Department in Yaounde.

The visiting SGS delegation was led by its Vice President of Connectivity and Products, Montserrat Martinez Exposito and the Vice President Government and Public Sector, Getaz Henri Alexandro, respectively.

Discussions at the audience centrered on the New Generation Customs Revenue Security Programme, abbreviated as PSRD-NG.

Both parties addressed other common issues of interests, such as risk management with the design of a unique risk map from the Customs Department and the risk management system developed by SGS; the implementation of the E-Valuator application; as well as training modules for customs personnel which fall within the framework of skills transfer offered by Swiss multinational SGS.

SGS delegation at the scanner image monitoring room

The problem of automatic transfer of data from the SGS e-Trade information system to the Cameroon Customs Information System, CAMCIS, as part of the strengthening of digitalisation and document security also took centre stage during discussion at the audience.

Speaking at the end of the working session, Henri Alexandre Getaz, stated that: “The reason for our visit this morning is that, the SGS is in charge of the contract to help the Directorate General of Customs in controlling all importations and exportation in Cameroon. So, we wanted to meet to see how we can ameliorate the procedure and our collaboration”.

“…this meeting was very important and even the Customs boss frankly told us what his thoughts are about it, the issues to be improved upon so that we can work on them. We hope that by the next time we come here, we will be coming with the solutions,” the SGS delegation member added.

The Customs boss was accompanied during the audience by some close collaborators. At the end of the audience, the SGS delegation visited the scanner image monitoring room at the Directorate General of Customs in Bastos.