PHOTO Moldova's Customs Service receives 10 kits with modern equipment for contraband's detection

Chisinau, 20 February /MOLDPRES/ - The Customs Service today received 10 kits with modern equipment for carrying out the control at the customs checkpoints Giurgiulesti, Leuseni and Sculeni. The donation was delivered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through USAID Moldova Institutional and Structural Reforms Activity Programme (MISRA).    

Attending the event were the leadership of the Customs Service, Ambassador of the USA to Moldova Kent Logsdon, the leadership of the USAID MISRA Programme and heads of the border customs posts.  

The head of the Customs Service, Igor Talmazan, thanked the partners for the donation and the support provided for achieving the international customs standards through the modernization and digitalization of the customs procedures, strengthening of the customs control, consolidation of the capacities and development of the professional skills of the customs employees.   

„The modern equipment will be distributed to the border customs posts which have become quite demanded by carriers, especially because of the war in Ukraine. These last generation devices will allow customs inspectors speeding up the process of inspection and enhancing the efficiency of the control of the transports of goods which cross the borders of Moldova,’’ Igor Talmazan said.  

For his part, U.S. Ambassador to Moldova Kent Logsdon said that the United States backed the modernization of the Customs Service and the digitalization of the procedures. ‘’The new equipment will allow shortening the time of inspection of the transport means and will diminish the risk of the creation of queues of touring cars at the border customs checkpoints, as well as carrying out an efficient customs control,’’ the ambassador said.  

At the donation event, the heads of the frontier customs posts unveiled the functionalities of the equipment and showed how it is applied in practice. The sets donated include equipment which allows establishing the density of objects and their dimension, detecting the false walls or the hidden sections in the transport means, visualizing the details of the objects transported, without the need to disassemble the transport means, thus reducing the risks of deterioration of the goods carried.   

The modern equipment is both about 3 million lei (about 150,000 euros).