“Single Window is defined as a facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardized information and documents with a single entry point to fulfil all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements”
UN/CEFACT RECOMMENDATION No. 33
At the seaports of Odessa and Illichivs’k automated electronic procedures, which facilitate international trade and transport for containerized cargo and rail transport based on the Single Window concept for import and export are implemented through the Port Community System (ISPS). This follows the adoption of the Law “On Sea Ports of Ukraine” on 17 May 2012 by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and other amendments to the relevant legislation218, designed to simplify transport and customs procedures at the ports. The implementation of the ISPS comes aer the launch in 2011 Odessa sea port of the Single Window – Local Solution. The ISPS is implemented in Ukraine with the support of the Cabinet of Ministers. The port innovation was created by the recommendations of UN experts and on the basis of experience taken from the largest world ports of Rotterdam and Yokohama. Local introduction of the ISPS could potentially serve as a foundation for the consequential national introduction of the fullfledged “Single Window” Concept.
The ISPS was designed to integrate all participants to the cargo-carrying and cargo-processing operations under the umbrella of a single IT system. This system is intended to provide access to information used in the technological processes in the port and protected by the government-approved means of data protection. In general terms, the ISPS is a system aimed at providing control agencies with means to utilize (store, check, process and transfer) information and documents in electronic form
for the purposes of border, customs and other types of control, clearance of goods and vehicles. The ISPS is a business-to-business and business-to-government solution, based on an E&T (extraction and transformation) communication hub. The unit of information in the ISPS is a document. A document is an information-carrying container based on the PCS#7 standards.
