Digital trade infrastructure, operated
3Sixty puts TWIN to work at the border. TWIN is open-source infrastructure for sharing and verifying trade data across borders. 3Sixty is the company that implements and operates it: for importers who want their goods cleared before the truck arrives, and for governments that want the systems they already run to talk to each other across borders.
Journey
Commodity
Transport
Documents
Each entry is fingerprinted and signed by its issuer. The authority verifies the fingerprint; the file itself stays with its owner until an authorised party fetches it.
Layer 1, open infrastructure
Trade Worldwide Information Network. Open source, built on open standards, stewarded by the TWIN Foundation (IOTA Foundation, World Economic Forum, TradeMark Africa, Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, Chartered Institute of Export and International Trade, and the Tony Blair Institute). Every party keeps control of its own data and shares verifiable documents and events with the counterparties it chooses.
Layer 2, commercial operator
Runs TWIN as a managed service, integrates it with port, forwarder and government systems, and builds the applications on top. Holds the team, the contracts and the relationships. Based in the UK.
For UK importers, forwarders and retailers
If you bring food, plants or other controlled goods into the UK, you already produce the paperwork: health certificates, CHEDs, invoices, packing lists, CMRs. Today it is keyed into several systems and checked when the truck is already at the border. With TWIN the same documents and events are shared once, from your forwarder's system, and reach Port Health in advance.
Sources: UK Government Border Trade Demonstrator trials, 2025; UK Ecosystem of Trust evaluation report, 2023
The first integrations cover the port community system used at most UK container ports and the two Port Health Authorities on the Short Straits and the East Coast.
75 percent of UK container and trailer trade reachable via MCP/Destin8 and Port Health integrations
Figure claimed by MCP, the port community system operator
Pilot partners: Suffolk Coastal Port Health, Ashford Port Health, MCP, Mobius, DFDS, Meeder, IPL
One record in the middle. Documents leave your forwarder's system once, the TWIN node anchors them, and every authorised party in the chain reads the same record in the format it already uses.
TMS, for example Signal
Creates the consignment record and attaches documents as they are produced.
Can invite clients and partners to use TWIN for document sharing and visibility.
3Sixty Cloud
Digital twin, verified documents, audit trail anchored.
Anchors a verifiable record of each document and event. Data stays at source; only authorised parties can fetch it.
MCP, Destin8
Receives consignment documents directly into the port inventory system used at the major container ports.
Shares with port operators and authorities and provides status information.
Port Health Authorities
Sees the consignment before arrival, runs document checks, and sends the result back up the chain.
ISN, open source
Distributes pre-arrival data to the UK authorities that have opted in.
Two integrations do most of the work. MCP's Destin8 is the port community system at Felixstowe, Harwich, Immingham, Tilbury, Thamesport, Liverpool and Birkenhead. Ashford Port Health controls products of animal origin arriving via the Short Straits crossings at the Sevington border control post, where the Short Straits' fresh-food traffic is checked.
Worked example
Trucks of fresh chicken cross from Calais to Dover every day. This is the journey as it runs in the current pilot, with the forwarder's system as the source of the data.
Documents leave your forwarder's system once and reach every authorised party in the chain, in the format they already use.
Document-check results come back before arrival, so errors are fixed on the road rather than at the bay.
Signal, Destin8, IPAFFS and other TMS stay as they are. TWIN connects them; it does not replace them.
The UK pilot grew out of the UK government's Ecosystem of Trust and Border Trade Demonstrator programmes, where TWIN was trialled on Polish poultry and Brazilian beef. 3Sixty took over the project and the partner relationships in October 2026.
Early access, Q1 2027
The pilot runs with a closed group through the rest of 2026. From the first quarter of 2027 we are opening early access to other importers, forwarders and retailers moving goods through the Short Straits and the East Coast container ports. Register your interest and we will come back to you with what onboarding looks like for your routes and commodities. Onboarding through a forwarder that is already connected takes days, not months.
Best fit today: products of animal origin and plant products under SPS controls, fresh produce for UK supermarkets, and any container traffic through Destin8 ports where you want visibility of what is in the box.
Prefer email? Write to enquiries@3sixty.global.
We will come back to you about onboarding for your routes and commodities.
For governments and border agencies
Most countries now run a national single window, a customs system and several agency systems. They work inside the country and stop at the border. TWIN lets a government connect those systems to its trading partners' systems, so that one country's export record becomes the next country's import record, without giving up sovereignty or handing the data to anyone. Official documents (export certificates, ePhyto, certificates of origin and more) become digital, internationally verifiable documents: easy to share, highly secure and fraud-resistant.
Reference implementation, Kenya
The Trade Logistics Information Pipeline was built with TradeMark Africa and the IOTA Foundation for the Kenyan trading community, and is Kenya's national implementation of the technology. It connects the systems Kenya already runs:
Exporters identify themselves with their existing KRA PIN and release the documents those systems already hold: export declaration, certificate of origin, unique consignment reference, export permits. Carriers, forwarders and the port add the bill of lading, release status and events. The destination authority receives a complete, issuer-signed picture of the consignment before it arrives. Funded with the development agencies of the Netherlands and the UK, TLIP's national roll-out is expected in the first quarter of 2027, and Kenya is now discussing the same customs-to-customs exchange with partner countries.
Sources: TWIN's first-year update, 2026; TradeMark Africa
Corridors in practice: roses signed in Nairobi and verified at the Royal FloraHolland auction in Aalsmeer; coffee, tea and fresh produce to the UK.
Data stays at source, in the jurisdiction that produced it. Each organisation runs or is provided its own node and sets its own sharing policies. Nothing moves without an explicit, logged agreement between the parties.
The single window, customs system and agency systems stay in place. A TWIN node sits beside them and exposes what they hold, in standard vocabularies, to the counterparties the government chooses.
Every document and event is signed by its issuer and fingerprinted. A receiving authority can check for itself that a certificate is the one the issuing agency produced, with no call to a middleman.
The software is open source and the data models follow UN/CEFACT, GS1 and W3C standards. A government can take the code, host it itself, or have 3Sixty operate it on a cost-recovery service basis.
Scoping, pilot corridors and the sovereignty tier that fits your legal framework.
Open source
TWIN is a protocol that national programmes, corridors and commercial platforms implement under their own names. Because they implement the same open standards, each one can talk to the others, and every new implementation extends the reach of all of them.
The technology comes from more than five years of research and development by the IOTA Foundation and its ecosystem, with support from TradeMark Africa, the Chartered Institute of Export and International Trade and the EU Horizon programme. In May 2025 those organisations were joined by the World Economic Forum, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation to establish the TWIN Foundation as custodian of the protocol.
Implementations in progress or under test. 3Sixty operates some of them and partners on others; each keeps its own name and its own sponsor.
Kenya
National implementation integrating KRA, KenTrade, Kenya Ports Authority and the horticulture regulator. Built with TradeMark Africa.
National roll-out expected Q1 2027United Kingdom
Pre-arrival data for Port Health and port community systems; successor to the UK Ecosystem of Trust trials.
Pilot, early access Q1 2027Vietnam
With the Tony Blair Institute, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Vietnam Customs. Textiles and coffee exports.
Pilot 2026Africa, AfCFTA
The Tony Blair Institute's programme for national connectors across AfCFTA member states.
ProgrammeBangladesh
First-mile visibility for ready-made-garment exports, from factory gate to vessel at Chattogram, with the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, the Virtual Watch Tower network and a global apparel brand.
Scoping, 2026 to 2027United Kingdom, Northern Ireland
3Sixty is innovation partner to Netcompany on HMRC's Trader Support Service for GB to NI trade.
From 2027Netherlands
Dutch research project digitising fresh-produce supply chains between the Netherlands, Kenya and the UK, led by Rotterdam School of Management and Docklab. Its UK pilot connects Dutch exporters to the UK pilot through Docklab's integration.
IntegratedGlobal, logistics
Decentralised supply-chain visibility network launched by RISE (Sweden) with VTT (Finland) and A*STAR (Singapore), now with more than 50 cargo owners, forwarders, carriers and ports, including H&M. Its network, VWTnet, runs on TWIN; collaborating with 3Sixty on the visibility side of the UK pilot and on eFTI.
CollaborationUnited Kingdom
Teesside University's testbed and neutral hosting of the Information Sharing Network.
InfrastructureWhat they share is the protocol, the data models and the identity layer, which is what makes a Kenyan export certificate readable by a UK port health officer.
For investors
Carrier-owned trade platforms struggled because the market would not join a competitor's system. TWIN avoids that: the infrastructure is open source and governed as a public good, so customs authorities, ports and forwarders can adopt it. 3Sixty is the commercial operator on top, with the team, the government relationships and the integrations.
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