Sedna / Descartes integration for automating customs declarations
- farah674
- Jul 2
- 3 min read

Sedna is pleased to announce the integration of its leading customs automation tool with Descartes e-Customs™, a secure, web-based customs compliance solution. This strategic collaboration will enable Descartes e-Customs customers to leverage Sedna’s AI technologies for trade document processing and advanced automation to enable direct from email to customs declaration processing, dramatically enhancing customs declaration workflows.
The seamless integration of Sedna with Descartes e-Customs empowers traders, brokers, and customs agents to harness cutting-edge document processing AI for streamlining their import and export processes. By combining Descartes' solution to help filers submit data to HMRC and other government agencies with Sedna's AI-driven email processing and declaration creation automation, businesses can now quickly automate their customs declarations and trade documents from commercial invoices, packing lists, and other crucial documents, saving significant time and money.
Key features of the integration include:
Automated Customs Declarations: Quickly create Customs Declaration Service (CDS) import and export customs declarations using Sedna's AI-driven platform and workflow solutions.
Multi-Smart Document Reading: Easily read over 50 file types, including email, PDF, Excel, CSV, and API, for a unified declaration output.
Customs Classification and Guidance: Automatically classify, identify, and apply customs and document codes, ensuring accurate and compliant declarations.
Bulk Declarations: Process thousands of customs declarations in seconds, drastically reducing processing time and eliminating manual errors.
Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) Automation: Generate Goods Movement Records (GMR) alongside customs declarations for seamless road freight clearance.
Mobius Technologies, a UK-based customs agent, has already benefited from the Sedna-Descartes integration. By adopting this comprehensive customs automation solution, Mobius Technologies has optimized its customs declaration workflows, enabling the company to export its goods smoothly and efficiently.
Gavin Johnson, Managing Director at Mobius Technologies, shared his experience:
"As a business who are responsible for the transport, logistics & customs clearance for hundreds of chilled food consignments between the EU & UK monthly, to achieve the successful management of the “sticking points” on time-critical deliveries, it was essential that our supply chain data to be watertight, fluid & reliable for commercial success.
Time is money for us. Customs procedures CAN become time-intensive, and therefore expensive, in the wrong hands.
We have always operated a small-scale yet agile team of diligent customs compliance specialists, that facilitate all types of customs clearances for our clients. As the business scope has picked up & evolved, it urged us for more effective utilisation of the modern data-processing technologies available.
This would enable our specialists to deliver assured customs successes to our customers and alleviate the team from prolonged “keying-time” with manual declarations, and the costs associated, down.
The international borders are continuously striving to adopt more digital operability to promote the trade of goods, and so should we, as experienced facilitators of trade.
Some technologies we have invested in develop ourselves. Our “in-house”, bespoke Tracking Platform encourages new ways of supply chain visibility & communication, but we knew that integration and cooperation with like-minded companies would also bolster the possibilities within our operations.
This is how we came to contact both Descartes & Sedna.
Descartes’ e-Customs rigorous processing and Sedna’s intuitive automation have been a vital asset in establishing a consistent delivery of accurate customs entries for time-critical products.
Data is processed faster, documentation is more consistent, company time & money is saved.
It is still early days for our work, but we look forwards to the exciting opportunities that comes with continued development alongside both companies."
Descartes e-Customs is a secure, web-based solution that helps filers submit data to HMRC and other government agencies through a concise, easy-to-use interface. From template-driven declarations, client-specific data and the ability to duplicate previous declarations, Descartes e-Customs can adapt to the multiple ways that companies operate. To support the needs of both small and large operations, the solution can be integrated with freight management software as well as enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, which allows companies to manage inbound and outbound declarations from within one advanced solution.