Single window, an accelerator of business competitiveness

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History and background of trade facilitation– Some Key dates

Establishment of the National Commission of simplification of the procedures of foreign trade as part of trade liberalization of Morrocan foreign trade and accession to the GATT agreement.

Standardization of the document s of import and export in line with the standards of UN/CEFACT.

DUM/Advanced registration of import.

The Moroccan government started a big reform of the port sector in order to improve the productivity and competitiveness of the Moroccan ports;

At the same level, Morocco started a parallel reform of reengineering and simplification of trade procedures to improve the business environment.

Realise of the first National Plan of Simplification of procedures:

-the first comprehensive and detailed map of the procedures;

-Single window as an electronic platform for the exchange of electronic document.

2006

1986

2000

1995

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History and background of trade facilitation– Some Key dates

Congestion in the port of Casablanca shows the emergency of the implementation of the single window.

Establishment and operating a Single Window for Port community procedures through electronic exchange .

PortNet started with dematerialization of:

- Vessel arrival ;

- Berth request;

-Manifest.

From port procedures Single Window to trade procedures Single Window : Extension the services of portNet to

cover other formalities outside the Port.

Up date of the National Plan of Simplification of the procedures (14 trade facilitation projects were recommended by this

plan) with the target to digitalize all the trade procedures and documents by 2021.

2011

2015

2017

2007

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▪ Vessel Schedules, Vessel Arrivals / Departure Info;

▪ Container / Cargo declaration, Cargo Loading / Unloading

▪ Special & Dangerous Cargo Declaration;

▪ Customs Manifests, Import and Export Advance Lists for Containers

▪ Berth requests;

▪ Information Relating to Customs declaration, Container Inspection

▪ Procedures with respect to technical regulation control (certificate of conformity);

▪ Coordination of appointments of control visits;

▪ Container Gate in/out information;

▪ Container Release;

▪ Advance registration of import and export commitment( including license when it necessery);

▪ Control procedures and exchange of certificate of control;

▪ VGM (Verified gross mass),..

Services covered by PortNet as a Port Community System

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ERP WMS TMS SRM

Customer Order Transport SupplierOrderTransport

ERP WMS TMS SRM

customs

Opérateur Manutention

Empotage

forwarding agent

Service public

Freight Forwarder

Dépotage

Autorité Maritime

Dépôt

Transporters Import

Control organism

Importers/Exporters

Agents/Compagnie Maritime

Transporters Export

Complexity of integration of international supply chain

In practical terms , it is almost impossible for SME’s to achieve the full integration oftheir supply chain due to the complexity of external environment.

ExportImport

ERP WMS TMS SRM

Costumer Order Transport SupplierOrderTransport

ERP WMS TMS SRM

customs

Opérateur Manutention

Empotage

Forwarding agent

Service public

Freight Forwarder

Dépotage

Autorité Maritime

Dépôt

Transporteurs Import

Control organism

Importers/Exporters

Agents/Compagnie Maritime

Transporteurs Export

PortNet, a SW to integrate the total foreign trade procedures

Thanks to PortNet , this integration is gradually becoming reality due to the interconnection of all stakeholders around the electronic national single window of foreign trade.

PortNet : Importers and exporters national single window system oriented

The implementation of PortNet is the fruit of years of hard work of the foreign tradecommunity stakeholders puting the competitivity of importers and exporters at thecenter of interest of the administration, public and private service providers.

Importers

Exporters

PORTNET

Terminal operators

Banks

Exchange Control Agency

Customs

Freightforwarders

Depatment

of Defense

Shipping agentsTransporters

Dry Ports

Operators

Control Agencies

Protection

Civile

Port authority

Maritime authority

National Security

Ministery

of Foreign

Trade

Customs brokers

Air Cargo

authority

PortNet, integrated coverage of foreign trade processes for thousands of operators

27 843 26 649

CUSTOMERS ImportersExporters

39 000

Users

1 010

Fret Forwarders

BanksShipping agents Ports/ Aiports Administrations

139 12 10 16

Morocco improved its Doing Businness 2017 ranking of 7

places from 75th to 68th place. This result was largely

achieved thanks to the improved ranking in the "Cross-

Border Trade" indicator where Morocco was able to gain

39 points from 101st to 63rd place.

"Morocco made trading across borders easier by further

developing its single window system and thus reducing

border compliance time for importing. »

Source: WB DB 2017 report

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1. Place the opérator at the heart of the process and align the

governance of the SW project to the interests of the real

Customer and not only the interests of some comunities or

stakeholders;

2. Continuous quick Wins & concrete results with a performance

evaluation are important to sustain the interest and the

commitment of all the stakeholders;

3. Inclusive cooperation between the private and the private

sectors is essential( National commission of trade facilitation);

4. The support of the single window and its good will

are conditioned by its operational efficiency and safety

because it is the only way to sustain the commitment and to

generate trust;

5. SW is a vital national infrastracture that have to be safe, efficient

and should have an important scalable capacity and

performance.

Key factors for the success of the trade facilitation policy

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➢ Increase transparency and eliminate discrimination;

➢ Improve the business climate;

➢ Reduce the cost and time of foreign trade transaction;

➢ Construct a comprehensive and detailed database on trade

transactions that can be used to elaborate analysis to support

policy making.

Main results of dematerialization

Future challenges

➢ Implementation of the new National Plan of Simplification of the

procedures:

-PortNet to cover All procedures;

- Dégitalize All procedures and documents;

-Total dematerialization of All foreign trade documents by 2021;

➢ Interoperability with Single Window of the main partner countries;

➢ Mutual recognition of trade electronic documents with partner

countries.

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Thank you for your attention

M,Said MAGHRAOUI HASSANI

Director of Defense and Trade Regulation

State Secretariat for Foreign Trade

maghraoui@mce.gov.ma www.Portnet.ma