KARACHI: The User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of the Web Based One Customs (WeBOC) system for the Land Border Customa Station would be held on October 27.
The Peshawar Model Customs Collectorate has confirmed that Additional Collector Syed Aftab Haider would attend the UAT in the conference room of the Directorate of Reforms and Automation at Custom House, Karachi.
The Peshawar MCC had earlier nominated Assistant Collector Shahzad Liaqat Ranjha to attend the UAT, but later withdrew his nomination due to official exigencies in a letter sent to Directorate of Reforms and Automation (R&A) Director Abdul Majid Yousfani on October 24.
Sources told Customs Today that the nominated officials from Preventive Collectorates of Lahore and Quetta, the two other land border stations of Pakistan Customs, are also expected to be present at the UAT.
Presently, the land stations remain outside the WeBOC reach and the UAT of the WeBOC module for the Land Border Custom Station is the beginning of computerisation of all customs border stations. The Directorate of R&A expects to bring 80 percent of the land stations under automation by end this year.
Pakistan Customs stations at Wahga border as well as other major land stations, including Torkham, Chaman, Taftan, Sust, Quetta Railway Station and Lahore Railway Station would be brought into WeBOC system.
The automation of the customs process at the land stations would not only provide convenience to the importers, but also help ensure the timely payment of duties and taxes.
It would also help ease the flow of goods. The flow of imports, although seasonal from India, China and Afghanistan is high in volume which is obvious from the fact that an average of 5000-6000 goods declarations are filed each month.
