The European R&D project AI technologies for enhancing capabilities, greater efficiency and effectiveness for customs (CustomAI) is co-funded by the European Commission within the framework of the HORIZONTE EUROPE Program, under grant agreement number 101226029.
EU customs authorities are a cornerstone of the international trade landscape, playing a key role in preventing the entry of illegal goods, protecting revenue and ensuring the smooth flow of goods. Balancing these responsibilities is particularly challenging in the current context, where the volume of global trade continues to grow rapidly. Mitigating the inflow of illegal goods is increasingly difficult, especially with limited human resources.
In order to address these challenges, the CustomAI consortium has pooled its experience and expertise to develop an AI toolkit that will reduce the number of false positives (situations where cargo such as shipping containers or packages that do not contain contraband are selected for inspection). The proposed AI toolkit will revolutionize Customs operations by incorporating non-intrusive and robust AI-enhanced technologies to predict, detect and select high-risk cargo for inspection. The VCCO concept is adopted to manage all processes of customs control of artifacts (e.g., containers, parcels).
The Isdefe team participating in the project is coordinated by Raquel Pastor Pastor of Isdefe’s Defense and Security Technologies Department.
For further information, please contact innovacion@isdefe.es