The recent launch of the CORE project emphasizes the economic importance of creating secure supply chains whilst maintaining or improving business performance

• the business communities, specifically shippers, forwarders, terminal operators, carriers and financial stakeholders to integrate compliance and trade facilitation concepts, such as green lanes and pre-clearance with supply chain visibility and optimization.
• the Customs, law enforcement authorities, and other agencies nationally and internationally to increase effectiveness of security & trade compliance, without increasing the transaction costs for business, and to increase co-operative security risk management (supervision & control); 

CORE will consolidate solutions developed in Reference Projects in each supply chain sector (port, container,air, post). Implementation-driven R&D will then be undertaken, designed to uncover gaps and practical problems and to develop possible solutions that could achieve substantial and sustainable progress in supply chain security across all EU Member States and globally.