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4/7/2022
Meet Our People: Customs Support Managing Director Finland Niko Plith
Who are you? My name is Niko Plith. I’m 50 years old, and I live near Helsinki in Vantaa with my wife and two children. My daughter is 17, and my son is 15. I have worked in logistics for the last 30 years in different positions, and I still think it is the best industry. I’ve done sales, …
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7/7/2022
Trade Deals Around the World: July Edition
The European Union The European Union is negotiating several trade agreements, but many of these negotiations are going very slow or have come to a complete stop. Many European countries are now calling for accelerating these trade deals. The EU struck an accord struck with the Mercosur bloc of …
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8/8/2022
Trade Deals Around the World: August Edition
We focus on the European Union and the United Kingdom and watch China and the United States. We look back at July and focus on trade deals only in this update. We hope you just had, are having, or are about to have a well-deserved summer break. Here is some interesting reading material about the …
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17/6/2020
The EU Customs Pre-Arrival Security and Safety Program: ICS2
Key to the overhaul is a new information system called ICS-2. EU Customs wants to facilitate the free flow of legitimate trade across external borders through improved data-driven customs security processes. Data is the key and the current systems can’t live up to the task at hand. Directly …
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30/12/2020
Customs Support acquires First Class Zollservice
First Class Zollservice, with 6 locations in the Frankfurt/Main area and Hamburg, Germany, is a full-service customs provider and delivers reliably and punctually customer-oriented solutions. The company was founded in 1992 and has grown through its core customs offering as well as ancillary …
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11/1/2021
Trade Deals Around the World: January Edition
Trade Deals Around the World is our monthly recurring update, which gives you a quick and easy overview of what has been happening in the many trade deal negotiations going on around the world. We are at the start of a new year. 2020 was quite the year with Brexit and COVID and both will play a …
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20/1/2021
UWV and Customs Support help 9 jobseekers find nice job
Together with the UWV Together with the Dutch Governmental Unemployment Agency ( UWV ), Customs Support has enabled a group of unemployed people to re-train as declarants. A total of 9 people followed the 12 week program through Customs Safety Training. They interned at 5 different Customs Support …
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21/1/2021
Power outage Sierentz France: how to reach our French colleagues
Please use sales-france@customssupport.com for all communications. If you have a meeting planned, please call your contact via Microsoft Teams. Other customs support offices are not affected and can be reached as usual . Our apologies for any inconvenience. We will continue to inform you …
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22/1/2021
Customs Support Enables Degassing and Risk Analysis through its PX Safety and Van Tienen Subsidiaries
Two of our subsidiaries specialize in a whole different part of the import- and export process: risk assessment and degassing of import containers, and the gassing of export containers. Creating a Safe Working Environment In up to 20% of all containers imported in the Netherlands, there are …
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25/1/2021
Freshport Rebrands to Customs Support Fresh
Customs Support is continuously growing and adding new members to the Customs Support family. In 2020 we launched the project rebranding where all new members to the Customs Support Group started working as one single brand. Customs Support Fresh Through Customs Support Fresh we enable our …