Hurricane Commerce and Alice IOT Redefine How Data Compliance Powers Cross-Border Parcel Execution Amid Tightening Low-Value Import Regimes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Press Release Alice IOT x Hurricane Commerce
Hurricane Commerce and Alice IOT Redefine How Data Compliance Powers Cross-Border Parcel Execution Amid Tightening Low-Value Import Regimes
Miami, FL – 23 February 2026: Alice IOT, the middle-mile parcel execution platform operated by Worldwide Internet of Transit, and Hurricane Commerce, the trade intelligence partner of choice for cross-border operators, today announced a strategic collaboration designed to address the operational impact of tightening low-value import regimes and rising clearance scrutiny.
The announcement is being made to coincide with the WMX Americas event in Miami, where postal operators, carriers, consolidators and marketplaces are confronting increasing clearance risk, higher exception costs and growing margin pressure.
Embedding Compliance into the Operational Core
Cross-border parcel flows are undergoing structural change. As de minimis thresholds tighten and customs data requirements intensify, data compliance can no longer be treated as a downstream function. It must sit directly inside operational decision-making.
Hurricane provides:
- Real-time HS classification validation
- Landed cost logic for duty and tax
- Prohibited and restricted goods screening
- Denied party and sanctions screening
- High-volume, millisecond-response API services
Alice IOT provides:
- Parcel-level middle-mile execution
- Multi-party transit integration across origin, linehaul and destination
- Consolidation and MAWB alignment
- End-to-end milestone control and auditability
- Transit-party-agnostic architecture
Through this collaboration, compliance intelligence is embedded directly into parcel execution workflows, ensuring validated information actively drives routing, consolidation, clearance preparation and injection decisions in real time.
This is not a bolt on integration. It is structural alignment between compliance intelligence and operational movement.
From Reactive Correction to Built-In Certainty
The combined capability enables operators to:
- Validate parcel and item-level information before label and manifest
- Reduce avoidable border holds and exception costs
- Improve duty transparency and DDP predictability
- Increase classification confidence
- Accelerate onboarding of new lanes and partners
- Protect margin in a compliance-intensive environment
By combining validation with operational execution, Alice IOT and Hurricane enable a shift from reactive correction to proactive certainty.
“The industry is moving from ‘move first, validate later’ to ‘validate first, move with certainty.’ As low-value regimes tighten, operators cannot afford late-stage correction. Embedding compliance intelligence directly into parcel execution ensures movement decisions are made with validated information from the outset.”
Drew Fobbester, CEO, Alice IOT
“Tightening import regimes and increasing scrutiny are forcing operators to rethink how parcels move across borders. Real time now genuinely means real time across the entire journey.
This collaboration brings together best-in-class data compliance intelligence and middle-mile execution so that validated information actively drives parcel movement, rather than sitting outside it. Operational certainty must be built in, not added on.”
Martyn Noble, Chairman and CEO, Hurricane Commerce
Designed for a Compliance-Intensive Future
As regulatory regimes evolve across major markets, early validation, operational agility and scalable auditability are becoming operational requirements.
The Alice IOT × Hurricane collaboration supports carriers, posts, marketplaces, retailers and consolidators seeking to reduce friction, protect margin and adapt quickly without wholesale core system replacement.
Representatives from both organisations will be meeting partners and operators throughout WMX Americas to discuss deployment scenarios and joint opportunities.
About Alice IOT
Alice IOT is a cloud-native parcel execution platform designed to manage cross-border flows at parcel level. It integrates origin handling, consolidation, brokerage, linehaul and destination injection into a unified operational data model, enabling scalable, transit-party-agnostic cross-border execution.
About Hurricane Commerce
Hurricane Commerce is the trade intelligence partner of choice for freight forwarders, customs brokers, postal operators, online retailers, marketplaces, eCommerce platforms and carriers across the global trade ecosystem.
Built on a purpose-designed Vertical AI platform for cross-border trade, Hurricane delivers the intelligence required to move goods compliantly and efficiently. Our APIs provide HS classification and item description enhancement, duty and tax calculation, prohibited and restricted goods screening, and denied party screening, ensuring shipments clear Customs smoothly and predictably.
As cross-border eCommerce accelerates, Hurricane enables customers to reduce friction, avoid delays and prevent unexpected costs by delivering accurate, real-time trade intelligence before goods move. Hurricane is the intelligence behind compliant cross-border execution, enabling customers to trade with confidence at scale.
Hurricane’s recent webinar, Global Trade Twists, brought the customs and compliance lifecycle to life by putting data firmly at the centre. At origin, Hurricane turns theory into action: product data is enriched, classified, and risk reviewed; duties and taxes are calculated and displayed; data is prepared for seamless submission. In perfect alignment, Plusius powers the financial side with regulated rails prepaying and remitting duties and taxes in step with the data flow, while ensuring every transaction is automatically reconciled and fully auditable.
Powered by data and underpinned by regulated payment rails, the Hurricane Plusius partnership sets a new global standard in compliant, connected cross border trade.
Media contact
Joe Diamond
Hurricane Commerce
