Integrated Border Management

Implementation Partners

Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA)

Implementation Period

April 2019 – June 2021

Project Participants

Importers and Exporters in East Africa

Project Value

$ xxxxxxx

Implementation Strategy

Through a Partner Support Financing Agreement, TMA will support the Revenue Authority in implementing the ECTS. The delivery will require identifying and working with an experienced technology partner. It is expected that a rigorous change management plan will be developed and implemented. This will ensure that all stakeholders are engaged and that there is the required buy-in. The technology required to realise the proposed ECTS will include software and hardware that will be procured based on documented requirements to be detailed during the Requirements Gathering phase. A 2-tier or 3-tear project implementation team will be constituted as detailed in the Project Charter. As per the Project Cycle Management framework, various activities that support the delivery of the project, such as, reporting, monitoring and evaluation etc. will be conducted as per the project plan.

Project Rationale

ECTS will address the following challenges:

Lack of holistic end to end transit monitoring mechanism leading to cases of dumping delayed bond cancellation and refund processing.
International and cross-border trade barriers resulting from multiple arming, disarming and, at times, verification at all borders along the corridor.
High-cost of cross-border trade in terms of time and money associated with monitoring of Transit cargo.

The Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS) an is a web-based solution used to provide real-time monitoring of transit cargo under Customs control. Implementation of an Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS) along the Central Corridor will facilitate tracking of goods under customs control (whose taxes have not been paid) from Point of Loading/Departure (especially for cargo entering East Africa through the port of Dar es Salaam) to final destination within Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Project’s Key Outputs include: