S-CBB - Secured Cargo Black Box
Overview
Background & policy context:
An earlier FP4 project (DISC II) had proposed a cargo black box as a means of tracking and tracing a ship's route in a way that is impossible to forge. While it was developed within the specific context of fraud in agriculture refunds and food aid transport, an extended concept is seen as a valid and reliable tool to reduce all customs and administratives process in short sea shipping.
Objectives:
S-CBB aimed to accelerate the adoption and use of telematics applications for preventing fraud in export activities. It aimed at demonstrating that the use of modern telematics applications can provide proof of dischargement of goods. This will be done by minimising administrative procedures and guarantying integrity of operations.
S-CBB's specific objectives have been to:
- Enable, protect and secure human intervention in the automated chain of information;
- extend the system specification to the broad range of all exchange within the EC waterways;
- design a generic tool to improve maritime transport by easing administrative procedures and making them more efficient; and
- propose solutions in terms of regulation and standardisation for implementing such a system.
Methodology:
S-CBB planned to come up with a telematic tool that could replace existing processes in maritime transport, thus helping to define a framework for new customs regulations. The idea behind the project has been to contribute in making sea transport in Europe more efficient, with consideration of technological and procedural solutions in the context of wider user requirements, by implementing a maritime 'TIR' system.
The approach was to:
- Study the detailed process of exporting goods from EC to third countries as well as good door to door transport operations in which short sea shipping is a main issue; and
- develop, improve and validate methods to improve transport efficiency, reduce administrative and financial costs for the different parties, and keep the technology and know-how ahead of fraud intentions.
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