Automated crossing of goods piloted at Finland-Norway border

The Finnish Customs introduced a pilot project for automating the border crossing of goods traffic at the Finnish-Norwegian border.

The project introduced at Kivilompolo border crossing point in July and will continue until the end of the year, said the Finnish Customs in a press release on Tuesday.

The target of the project is to produce functioning models for future logistics solutions and if the project becomes successful, automation will be used more in future.

New solutions for the flow of information, identification of transport data and quicker border crossing will be tested, aiming to facilitate the digitalisation of logistics.

These will be tested with transports under the transit procedure arriving to Finland from Norway. Intelligent technologies make it possible to transport goods safely and to cross the border efficiently.

”Customs wants to participate in projects that encourage experimenting and that help us make our work more efficient and promote a smooth trade in goods. The aim is that after the pilot project, we will be able to introduce the solution also at other border crossing points,” said Juha Heikkilä, Director of Customs, Tornio unit.

Finnish Customs, Norwegian Customs and the providers of the technical solutions Vediafi, Caverion and Marshall AI, are participating in the pilot project in Kivilompolo, among others.

This pilot project is part of a larger CaaS (Corridor as a Service) cooperation project optimizing the export procedure for salmon transports from Norway to the Asian market.