Borders, Trade & Migration

Transporting goods, people and services across international borders securely and safely can create enormous economic opportunities and make a wide range of different demands on governments. Much can be gained from an efficient, secure border that supports the national interest and facilitates the aims of businesses and individuals. The ecosystem of partners before, at and after the border have similar sets of objectives in relation to security, flow, revenue and growth. They can however, ascribe different levels of importance to each and, as a result, governments, ports, carriers and their customers can fail to deliver the most effective solutions. There can be constant tension between the objectives and those responsible for achieving them. The recent climate – including the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit, globalisation of trade and rapid technological change - has even more so disrupted the balance of these objectives.

By taking advantage of emerging technologies, leveraging the power of data and improving collaboration across the ecosystem of partner, the movement of people and goods across international borders can be transformed and the balance of objectives can be restored to achieve the Connected Border of the future.