IMO’s Julian Abril has been reporting on the IMO Facilitation Committee’s work on developing a mechanism for ships to file all electronic arrival and departure data via a single access point (the so-called maritime single window concept) and on the maintenance of the IMO Compendium on Facilitation and Electronic Business to the Transport and Logistic Domain meeting of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business – UN/CEFACT (Paris, 1-4 December).