Case Study: Federal Department of Finance achieves 20% faster transit clearance and reduced smuggling with Axway Integrator (Axway)

Axway Integrator Facilitates Transit of Goods for Swiss Customs

The Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT) is the Swiss federal IT provider based in Bern that supports government operations and the e-dec transit system for customs. Faced with rapidly growing volumes of electronic declarations, the need to speed transit of 20,000+ trucks crossing Swiss borders daily, improve officers’ ability to detect smuggling, and ensure an always-available, secure platform, FOITT needed a stable, scalable connection solution.

FOITT implemented Axway Integrator to connect national and international partners and 3,000 customs offices and 2,800 enterprises. The platform delivered a reliable, secure exchange and quick onboarding of new message protocols, cutting transit clearance times by about 20% (roughly 1½ hours), boosting throughput to 16,000 messages per minute (a 6.5x increase), accommodating an expected 30% message growth, and helping reduce smuggled goods while streamlining customs resources.

Federal Department of Finance

Davide Saccomani

Project Leader, e-dec transit