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Hurricane Commerce Signs Agreement to Utilise SGS D-TECT®

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Hurricane Commerce and SGS Partner to Revolutionise Customs Clearance with Data-Driven Compliance Solutions Hurricane Commerce is proud to announce a strategic partnership with SGS, enabling the integration of Hurricane’s global data intelligence platform with the AI-powered SGS D-TECT® Solution. This collaboration brings together two leading technologies to deliver unparalleled accuracy in customs clearance, compliance, and […]

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Hurricane Commerce and Emma Systems partnership to provide seamless cross border experience

Hurricane Commerce and Emma Systems partnership to provide seamless cross-border experience

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Hurricane Commerce and Emma Systems have agreed a strategic partnership to ensure customers receive the best possible cross-border experience. The two companies will collaborate to deliver Hurricane’s AI-driven, real-time data solutions and Emma Systems’ E-Doc cloud platform that enables post-declaration customs compliance and HMRC audit readiness. Hurricane’s solutions cover the critical cross-border areas of duty

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Hurricane Commerce selected by Hongkong Post as cross border data partner

Hurricane Commerce selected by Hongkong Post as cross-border data partner

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Hongkong Post has chosen Hurricane Commerce as the data partner to support its global eCommerce operations. The post will be accessing Hurricane’s Zephyr and Aura solutions. Hurricane’s Zephyr solution ensures that shipments have the right data – including HS6 codes, product descriptions and 8- and 10- digit import and export codes – to pass smoothly

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Hurricane Commerce and Itembase Announce Strategic Partnership to Power Cross Border eCommerce

Hurricane Commerce and Itembase Announce Strategic Partnership to Power Cross-Border eCommerce

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Hurricane Commerce and Itembase have formed a strategic partnership that leverages Itembase’s tech-enabled merchant connectivity platform with Hurricane Commerce’s leading cross-border data solutions covering duty and tax calculation and compliance screening for eCommerce transactions. Hurricane’s Aura solution providing its landed cost engine, prohibited and restricted goods screening and denied parties screening and its Zephyr data

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Vital role of data in the future of cross border trade highlighted at US CBP Summit

Vital role of data in the future of cross-border trade highlighted at US CBP Summit

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The importance of complete and accurate data in international trade was one of the constant themes running through the US Customs and Border Protection’s Trade Facilitation and Cargo Security Summit. The three-day event, held in Anaheim, California, last week, brought together over 1,500 international trade and customs specialists. I was joined at the event by

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Hurricane joins the International Chamber of Commerce

Hurricane joins the International Chamber of Commerce

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Hurricane Commerce has become a member of the International Chamber of Commerce. The ICC is a leading business organisation advising governments around the world. The digitalisation of global supply chains is a top global and UK priority and the ICC’s central priority for digital trade is to make trade cheaper, faster, quicker, and more sustainable

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Podcast focuses on the need for compliance screening across the supply chain

Podcast focuses on the need for compliance screening across the supply chain

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Hurricane’s Martyn Noble and David Spottiswood have recorded an interview with Ian Kerr of the Postal Hub Podcast with a strong focus on compliance screening. The 20-minute podcast covered a huge amount of ground with lots of discussion around the need for all parts of the cross-border eCommerce supply chain to ensure they are screening

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Hurricane tech updates ensure best in class service for customers

Hurricane tech updates ensure best-in-class service for customers

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Only by continuing to evolve our technology can Hurricane ensure its customer offering is truly world-leading. The latest updates introduced over the last year to our Zephyr and Aura APIs have included new content and improved processing speeds. To keep up with changing regulations and more complex requirements from customers, Hurricane has invested heavily in

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Hurricane Commerce wins Supplier of the Year at Parcel & Post Technology International Awards 2021

Hurricane Commerce wins Supplier of the Year at Parcel & Post Technology International Awards 2021

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Hurricane Commerce has been named Supplier of the Year at this year’s Parcel & Post Technology International Awards. The announcement was made on the first day of the Parcel & Post Expo 2021 which is being held in Vienna. Hurricane received the award for the impact its cross-border data solutions have had during the last

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Today’s the Day End of the EU VAT de minimis and the launch of the Import One Stop Shop (IOSS)

Today’s the Day: End of the EU VAT de minimis and the launch of the Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS)

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Today (July 1) marks the latest major change affecting the complex world of cross-border eCommerce. It sees the removal of the de minimis value whereby no VAT is paid on goods of a value of up to €22, making all imports subject to European Union VAT rates. The VAT amount applicable is subject to the

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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.