Business News of Tuesday, 2 June 2020Source: thebusiness24online.netTema Port: Importers stranded as hitches mar ICUMS deploymentFile photoScores of importers were left stranded at the Tema Port today, June 1, when they failed to process their documents through Customs’ new Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) on day-one of its full deployment at the country’s busiest seaport. Others who started the process from scratch through the ICUMS also experienced some technical hitches at some level, especially at the compliance stage. It took the intervention of a ministerial delegation led by the Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyerematen, to calm down the stranded and visibly angry shippers. “We need to dare to achieve; they [importers] were stuck with the previous system knowing that this day was going to come,” he said. ICUMS is a departure from the previous systemICUMS is a departure from the previous system where ‘valuation and classification’ and ‘risk management and payment’ were handled by different entities.

Source: GhanaWeb June 02, 2020 07:18 UTC