Paperless cargo clearance scheme has cut hassle, clearance time at Singapore checkpoints, say drivers


ICA said more than 94 per cent of drivers used the paperless cargo clearance system as at December 2023. - ST

SINGAPORE: At 3am daily, when many people are deep in slumber, Kumar Batumalai enters Singapore via the Woodlands Checkpoint from Johor in Malaysia to deliver cooking oil and empty steel drums.

After doing so for 20 years, the lorry driver with PGeo Edible Oils, which makes food products, is glad he does not have to bring paper permits with him for each trip he makes any more.

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