Solutions for Global Trade enabling seamless customs clearance

Our Solutions
AI-enabled tech supporting cross-border excellence
Our Products
Accurate duty & tax calculation driving customer retention
Duty & Tax Calculation
Data That Delivers

Data that
delivers

Success in global trade depends on having the right data including complete and accurate product descriptions, Harmonised System (HS6) Codes, including to 10-digits or longer.

Manual solutions are no longer accurate or quick enough. In today’s fast-paced world, with millions of parcels being shipped every day, vertical AI-driven, real-time data powers a smooth customs flow, unlocking growth, efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Duty & Tax Calculation

Vertical AI
Technology

Hurricane’s vertical AI technology is removing customs barriers for customers including carriers, retailers, customs brokers and freight forwarders, speeding up delivery, reducing costs and enhancing consumer experience.

Carriers depend on our vertical AI data solutions to keep their shipments moving.

Maximise customer experience and loyalty through data accuracy.

Complete and accurate data that enables faster customs clearance.

Automate your processes to enable speed, accuracy and scalability.

Four reasons to
choose hurricane

Hurricane provides customers with a high return on investment, future proofing your business and giving you the best chance of succeeding in global trade.

Streamlined customs clearance​

Streamlined customs clearance

Enhanced data that removes customs barriers
Tech driven compliance

Tech-driven compliance

Ensuring you don’t fall foul of global regulations
High speed and accuracy

High speed & accuracy

Ability to process huge cross-border volumes at industry-leading speeds

Duty & tax calculation

Complete cost transparency avoiding doorstep shocks

Our data doesn't lie

Hurricane’s solutions can turbocharge your business

Unexpected Charges

55% of online shoppers

abandon cart due to lack of cost transparency

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80% of cross-border

retailers say HS code data is a major pain point

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Data accuracy improvement from

30% to over 90%

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Parcels held at customs reduced from

38% to 0.5%

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99.7% accuracy

on Duty & Tax calculations

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Cost transparency gives retailers

24% increase in revenue

Our customers
& partners

What our
customers say

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EVRi

“We are delighted to have Hurricane as our global strategic partner for the provision of cross-border data solutions.”

Ed Ayyad, Director of International

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“Hurricane’s solutions are already making a difference and are a good fit with our wider range of customized solutions that reduce costs, improve transit times and provide a superior customer experience.” Bob Puppa, Chief Operating Officer
Seko
“We pride ourselves on only working with the best-in-class and Hurricane’s solutions are truly world-leading in the field of data provision.” David Emerson, Senior Vice-President eCommerce Solutions

Data that supports
sustainability

Sustainability is increasingly at the top of every business’s agenda.

Having the right data to enable accurate product descriptions and HS codes and duty and tax calculations is a key part of this process, reducing held shipments and returns.

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David SpoTtiswood
Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I am an amateur baker, but I still have no idea how sourduogh starter actually works, and am intrigued how it all reacts together to produce an incredible taste.

Favourite Music: November Rain by Guns ‘n’ Roses.  Going to Wembley with my wife our go to fun thing in our early years, our youth with long hair and rock clothing and not a care in the world other than getting the best spot in the house.

Favourite Quote: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results ” – Albert Einstein

Harry Reilly
Non-exec

Interesting Fact:  I learned Arabic for five years!.

Favourite Music:  A Long December by Counting Crows.  Memory of best family time together in California.

Favourite Quote: “Don’t forget execution, boys. It’s the all-important last 95%”

Tom Lee

Technical Director

Interesting Fact:  I am completely self-taught from a technical skills persepctiuve, and left formal education at 18.

Favourite Music:  Blink 182 – Aliens Exist.  Brings back fond memories of stickly floors and cheap beer.

Favourite Quote: “He sprayed water in my face – thta’s not allowed” – James Haskell.  The whole event surrounding it is hilarious and shows the power of a good wind up

Martin Palmer
Co-Founder

Interesting Fact: I started my working life training to be an accountant but decided I hated numbers. (Ironically I now love them!). I really wanted to join the Hong Kong Police force but couldn’t do that until i was 24. I took a temporary job in Imports and 47 years later here I am.

Favourite Music: There only was one choice. Harry Chapin. Meant a lot to me in my early years as an import broker. We played Chapin for hours and this one seemed to cover so many modes.

Favourite Quote: “No man is an island”

Neil Harmer

Operations Director

Interesting Fact:  As a Geologist my idea of the perfect beach holiday is going to the beach and investigating the rocks in the cliffs behind.

Favourite Music:  Broken Stones – Paul Weller, I’m a huge Paul Weller / The Jam fan; Broken Stones is a very relaxing song, I love the use of the electric piano in it

Favourite Quote: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today”. This is a great quote by Benjamin Franklin, to have in your head when working through a series of tasks to help keep focused.

Robert Dundas
Sales Director

Interesting Fact:  One of my life goals is to be able to speak French, I’ve been doing Duolingo every day for the last five years, and I’m still rubbish! 

Favourite Music: Where do I even start! Tom Petty Running Down a Dream, this is my top-down driving next to the ocean song

Favourite Quote: “This time will pass”

ASHLEY DEXTER
CFO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: I was nearly named Battle Dexter (I would have probably now been residing in one of His Majesty’s establishments)

Favourite Music: Even though I spent a few years in the music industry my taste of music was always a cause for concern with my colleagues, so to surprise them all my current favourite is Kids by MGMT (absolute belter)

Favourite Quote: “Quitters never win and winners never quit”

Ian Venner
CTO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Runs Red Lantern Records, a not-for-profit, ethical label as a side project, whose artists have regular national BBC radio airplay.

Favourite Music: Tom Waits, pretty much all of his work.  Beautifully observed avante-garde vignettes of life.  Oh, and anything really loud!

Favourite Quote: “It’s not the mountains we climb, but the grit in our shoe that grinds us down” – which sums up taking a business from start-up to enterprise.

Martyn Noble
CEO & Co-founder

Interesting Fact: Played a high standard of semi-professional rugby union (too many years ago now!)

Favourite Music: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven…my first live gig – Knebworth 11th August 1979, the track never grows old and is the iconic song of ‘hope’ whatever mood you are in when listening too it…and I’m still trying to work out what the lyrics mean!!

Favourite Quote: “Know your customers, Know your People, Know your Numbers” – plagiarised from Sir John Harvey Jones when I met him very early on in my career and values I stick to in my business life.