Sino-European Freight Forwarders Conference 2019 - ViaEurope

1. E-LOGISTICS AND CUSTOMS CLEARANCE INTO EUROPE,
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DATA
“
”
As an industry, logistics is ripe for
technology-driven disruption…
TechCrunch

3. Europe e-Commerce Hub
Rotterdam (RTM)
Antwerp (ANR)
Hamburg (HAM)
Paris Frankfurt
Milan Madrid
Poland Austria
e-HUB Amsterdam (NL)
e-HUB Liége (BE)
Amsterdam (AMS)
Liége (LGG)
Luxembourg (LUX)
Frankfurt (FRA)
Paris (CDG)

4. Removal of VAT De Minimis
“The delivery Industry faces an additional
processing cost of €1 billion”
6-12-2017 - study by Copenhagen Economics
Where “They” see problems, “We” see opportunities

5. “They”
European Union is no longer impressed by Couriers and Postal
companies’ lobby efforts to postpone.
The public pressure and financial impact is too high.
politico.eu May 2016
€1.3 billion
total loss per year on postal
shipments (EU import)

6. E-clearance by traditional Customs brokers
CDG-Paris (France)
- Bulk clearance only (<€22)
LHR-London (The United Kingdom)
- Bulk clearance only (<€150)
LGG-Liége (Belgium)
- Bulk clearance only – BeGate (<€22)
AMS-Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Bulk clearance – GPA (<€150)
- Bulk clearance – VENUE (<€22) (ViaEurope)
- Electronic clearance – AGS (ViaEurope)
e-Commerce clearance in Europe is mainly done by
traditional Customs brokers using Bulk Clearance (<€22)

7. From Bulk to Electronic
18 months
Customs brokers
- Customs license only is no longer sufficient
- New regulations require technology and big data
- New regulations will result in an equal playing field
Customs authorities
- Technological challenge to capture all data
- Tremendous regulation challenges
2019
BULK
Electronic
90%
10%
2021
Electronic
100%

8. “We”
- ViaEurope is a tech driven e-logistics company
- Electronic e-commerce clearance since 2015
- 60.000 electronic clearances per day
- Constant R&D to master the ‘tsunami’ of data
That’s why “We” see opportunities…

9. Thank youBJ Streefland | bj@viaeurope.com