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In this edition, we are excited to present Elías Benhamú, who is our financial director for France and Spain Join us as Elías shares his experience and insights in this article. Who are you? I’m  Elías , 32 years old, from a city called Cordoba in Spain. I have been working with Customs Support for …

Who Are You? “My name is Renate Storm. I’m 41 years old and I’m a born and raised Rotterdam woman. I have been working in the world of customs for over 20 years, first at companies like Burger, MOL Logistics, and Ziegler. And for almost 2 years now I have been working for Customs Support as a …

Who are you? My name is Hanna Gustafsson, and I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. My career in customs started in 2016 as a part-time job alongside my studies at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. I first worked as a declarant before being promoted to Export …

Who are you? My name is Esko Holopainen, and I am the customs clearance director in Finland. What does a director of customs clearance do? I manage all the customs activities in Finland. This includes all the development of our digital systems, overseeing our team of customs declarants, and …

Simplified Customs Procedures  Many national Customs Authorities have implemented simplified procedures for shipments of humanitarian goods to Ukraine and surrounding countries like Poland, Moldova, etc.  A few examples of Customs Authorities that have released statements on simplified procedures:  …

100,000 Declarations  Portmade started as the department that dealt with all services not directly related to the CMB Ships in the Port of Antwerp, the second largest container port in Europe. They took care of many different services for CMB Customers, like container logistics, arranging …

Who are you?  My name is Kati Fortino. I’m 32 years old, and I live near Helsinki with my Italian husband and our 1.5-year-old boy. My career in customs started in 2013 at SA-TU Logistics, now Customs Support Finland. I’ve had different positions in the customs industry. I began in exports and …

Customs systems on both sides are straining under a load of additional documents and certificates , the French customs systems being among them. For many companies, Calais is top of mind when they need to ship goods from the European Union to the United Kingdom, but there are alternatives like …

Who are you? Formally, my name is Mladen Petricevic, but everybody calls me Joe. I’m 43 years old, and I live in Frankfurt. I was born here after my parents moved here from Split in Croatia. I’m happily married to my wife, and we have two daughters and a dog. I am one of the founders of ZSK …

With 42 years of experience, Bruno can be called a veteran in the Italian customs industry. He started his career in customs at 19 years of age as a delivery boy for a customs broker in the Port of La Spezia. After a few years of running across the port of La Specia with customs documents, he …