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Welcome to the Sifty resources
Below you will find the recent articles on Sifty's products and further insights on the shipping and logistics industries.

News
InnovateUK awards Sifty a Smart Grant
We have recently been awarded an InnovateUK Smart Grant from the UK Government. We are delighted to receive this support and are working hard to achieve results quickly for all customs teams worldwide.

International Trade
Understanding AI: Decision-Making in Customs Processes
Understanding the Role of AI in Enhancing Human Decision-Making in Customs Processes In the dynamic world of international trade, customs brokers play an essential role, ensuring goods move smoothly across borders and adhering to complex regulations and laws.

News
Can you imagine more uses for old containers?
Stadium 974 of Qatar is an innovative and unique stadium built entirely out of shipping containers. Located in Doha, the stadium was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and made for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Opinion
For Northern Ireland's sake, we need to redefine Special Economic Zones.
Can we talk about Northern Ireland as a Special Economic Zone… again? In September 2019, a few months before Brexit, the Financial Times reported on the possibility of treating Northern Ireland as a Special Economic Zone. Three years later, Northern Ireland's trade is still up for debate.

Opinion
AI is the future of trade
Imagine a future with AI powering all things trade. The original article was published in Spanish in Latitudex, a Mexican magazine specialising in international trade.

News
All hands on deck!
Increase international parcel throughput at customs. This article was initially published in Latitudex, a Mexican magazine specialising in international trade. Si quieres leer el artículo en español, haz click en la imagen de arriba y busca hasta abajo del texto en inglés el link para la versión digital de la revista Latitudex.

Machine Learning
Weapons of math production
Our CTO, Julio Amador, envisions a world where customs brokers trust numbers when making risk decisions. Statistics are at the core of any Machine Learning (ML) application.

Parcels
Why do international borders exist to create friction?
With the explosion of international e-commerce offering all kinds of innovative products, speedy delivery of consumer goods to our homes is a modern convenience we have all become accustomed to.

Customs
Chaos at the border
Following Brexit, Covid-19 and shifting trends in e-commerce, managing the flow of international goods is becoming increasingly demanding and complex...
Acknowledgements
We use DALL·E 2 from OpenAI to generate the feature images on our blog posts.
Learn moreAnd Weglot's machine translation engine automatically translates from English into Spanish.
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