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The Marine Services Association of Trinidad and Tobago is welcoming the development. President Jesse James says it will synergise seamlessly with other maritime border security initiatives, including the recently-opened Port Health office in Chaguaramas. He tells TV6, very soon persons entering the country by sea will also be able to do their Customs declarations online.
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00:00And SailClear is another platform that is going to be revitalizing the entire systems where in Chagram we have all
00:11these forms, paper-based forms, and carbon paper and all these things.
00:15SailClear is coming. It's going to be sooner than we think. Like Minister said, there's a lot happening. It's going
00:23to be sooner than we think.
00:24And every vessel entering our borders now will be, and it involves all the security agency, customs, immigration, you know,
00:34impacts everybody.
00:35So you go to Port Held. There are Port Held officers here. Sunday to Sunday, 6 a.m. to 6
00:39p.m. You go. You get a Port Held clearance interview and so on within minutes.
00:44Then customs and immigration officers right in Chagram is there. One minute, walk up to immigration with a clearance. Immigration
00:51will clear you.
00:52And then, again, that process is going to be cut down because there's now one less form to fill out.
00:56It's all electronic.
00:57And then from there, you go to customs and you're right over there. You get customs check-in. So it's
01:02all right in Chagram was there.
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