The system will also track tax-exempt (blue plate) vehicles owned by freeport investors and residents. SBMA chairman Felicito Payumo announced that the newly developed SBMA Motor Vehicle Tracking and Inventory System (MVTIS) would effectively provide information or database of all imported vehicles including import documentation and more importantly, payments of duties and taxes.
MVTIS will be backed with online compuer system which would be placed in all sentries to provide complete information or specification about the motor vehicle including engine and chassis number, and digital photographs taken upon entry inside the Freeport territory.
The system will be integrated and readily available with other government agency, such as the Bureau of Customs, the SBMA Seaport Department and the Import-Export Documentation Center which will all provide permits and clearance to the sentry before an imported vehicle is allowed to exit the freeport gates.
“This vehicle tracking system will form part of the efforts of the Arroyo government to generate more revenues through payment of duties and taxes, and eliminate the possibility of imported vehicles shipping out the freeport with duties and taxes unpaid,” Payumo said.
Apart from being online, MVTIS is a real-time and Web-based powered by the Oracle Platform and will become a major component of the SBMA’s e-government system envisioned by Payumo through the CyberSubic Project.
Payumo has been actively advocating a “paperless system” to prevent falsification of documents and even “human intervention” that induce graft and corruption. The Barcode system using an ATM-type identification card will be issued for security and access control of MVTIS.
This system would cover not just taxable (importation/trading) vehicles and tax-exempt (blue plate) vehicles, but also regular and transient (green plate) vehicles, and government (red plate) vehicles coming in and out of the freeport.
One of the main capabilities of this system is the Digital Imaging Facility. Once the motor vehicle enters the freeport premises, a digital image or picture of the motor vehicle will be captured using a digital camera. The photo will be recorded in the database and will form part of the MVTIS database.
Once the vehicle approaches the SBMA gates for exit, the actual physical appearance of the motor vehicle will be compared visually from the picture in the database. An inventory is provided by the system to audit and account all vehicles entering SBMA.
It is also text messaging and gprs-ready in order for the system to be available over the cell phones and the new personal data assistants like Palm pilots. This feature is available specifically for SBMA law-enforcement activities.
Reports can be generated by the system such as the management reports with summaries and statistical updates, inventory reports with listings of motor vehicle classified by group or by identified criteria and tracking reports with periodic aging report that is especially provided by the system to identify and track down lost or pilfered motor vehicles in SBMA.
The tracking system would provide a list of motor vehicles with duration of 60 to 80 days stay inside the Freeport. The SBMA inspectors will conduct an ocular inspection to locate each vehicle in the list. Report on the status of these vehicles has to be logged in the system.
MVTIS alco covers the procedural workflow within the manual portion of the system to blend with the computerized system. This is to simplify workflow and ease document processing.
A logging facility will be part of the system. This report will help monitor irregularities within the system. This is in compliance with ISO, an international standard of service maintained by SBMA as a global competitive Freeport.
With the implementation of such systems, the SBMA would assure that all vehicles entering the Freeport are all accounted for and to ensure that all government tax requirements have been complied with and the assurance that the motor vehicle is road-worthy upon leaving the Freeport Zone.
Quelle: ABS CBN News, 10.09.2004
