The Partnership
As Northbound continues its customs automation efforts, the company has partnered with DAKOSY, a German provider of customs and regulatory submission software. This partnership connects Northbound's AI-driven declaration preparation directly to DAKOSY’s submission pipeline, closing the gap between reading a supplier's paperwork and filing a compliant declaration.
Why This Partnership Matters
For customs operations teams and freight forwarders, preparing a customs declaration usually comes down to the same repetitive sequence: read through supplier documents, cross-reference every line against master data, then retype it all into customs software before anything can be submitted. It's slow, manual, and easy to get wrong when you're doing it dozens of times a day. Exactly the kind of bottleneck AI agents are built to remove.
With this partnership, Northbound’s AI agents read the source documents, cross-reference the data against a company's master records, and prepare the declaration automatically. DAKOSY takes it from there, submitting straight to the relevant customs authority. Same steps, none of them by hand.
About Northbound
Northbound's platform automates the manual work behind global trade compliance, starting with declaration preparation. It doesn't replace the customs software operations teams and forwarders already use. It plugs in alongside it, so specialists spend less time on data entry and more time on the exceptions that actually need their judgment
About DAKOSY
DAKOSY is a German provider of customs and logistics software, operating Germany's national customs submission system as well as the Port of Hamburg's Port Community System. Founded in 1982, DAKOSY’s network connects more than 2,000 forwarders, importers, and customs agencies to German customs authorities, making it a key link between freight forwarders and the customs submission process. This partnership extends that link further upstream, giving DAKOSY’s network a faster, AI-assisted path from source documents to a submission-ready declaration.
If you're currently using DAKOSY and want to see how this fits your workflow, schedule a quick demo.
