Enhancing Customs Security with an AI-Powered Integrated System

A global logistics company partnered with INTECH to deploy an AI-driven Integrated Customs System atop their existing rules engine, spotting subtle risks in “No Risk” traffic. This reduced manual reviews while catching fraudulent patterns across hundreds of thousands of daily declarations.

Client Overview

Global Cargo Provider Managing High-Volume Customs

  • Client

    Logistics organization processing hundreds of thousands of declarations daily

  • Industry

    Import/export transactions requiring rapid security screening

  • Core Offering

    Customs platform handling complex trade data flows

  • Mandate

    Enhance rules engine with AI to catch subtle risks in clean traffic

Challenges We Overcome

Rules Engine Missing Subtle Customs Risks

Missed high-risk cases

"No Risk" auto-classification hid dangerous shipments

Unusual patterns overlooked

New routes, product mixes evaded static rules

Limited anomaly analysis

No capability for nuanced data pattern detection

Manual review overload

Analysts drowned in false positives and volume

Static threshold limits

Couldn't adapt to evolving trade complexity

Solutions

INTECH's ICS: Multi-Layer Anomaly Detection Engine

Statistical outlier detection

IQR flags extreme values by port/product norms

Multi-model ML setup

Isolation forests + XGBoost for pattern anomalies

Attribute-level insights

Shows which fields drove each risk score

Voting aggregation

Combines model outputs for severity classification

Streamlit interface

Web dashboard for transaction exploration

Rules engine complement

Enhances without replacing existing logic

Tech Stack

Advanced Tech Powering Customs Risk Intelligence

Python core

Data processing, statistical checks, ML workflows

Statistical methods (IQR)

Outlier detection across business variables

ML models (XGBoost, isolation)

Supervised/unsupervised anomaly detection

Streamlit interface

Web exploration of flagged transactions

Model aggregation layer

Voting/scoring for risk prioritization

Phased implementation

Stats to ML integration and validation

Results

From Rule-Based Flags to AI Anomaly Precision

Better true risk capture

Flagged 0.6-0.8% high-risk from 500K transactions

Fewer false positives

Reduced low-value alerts through model aggregation

Clearer pattern insights

Highlighted key variables driving anomalies

Efficient analyst focus

Prioritized genuine cases over noise

Scalable monitoring

Adapts to growing volumes and trade patterns

Business Benefits

From Alert Overload to Precision Risk Focus

  • 0.6-0.8% high-risk flags

    Captures issues rules engine misses

  • Reduced false positives

    Legitimate trade flows without delays

  • Variable-level insights

    Guides policy refinement and deep checks

  • Analyst productivity

    Focus shifts to genuine investigations

  • Volume scalability

    Handles growing declaration complexity

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