Electronic Bills of Lading

American P&I Club CIRCULAR NO.05/25 dd 05 Feb. 25

Dorothea Ioannou
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
CIRCULAR NO. 05/25
TO MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION

Dear Member:

ELECTRONIC BILLS OF LADING: NOTIFICATION OF NEW PROCESS
Notification to members

1. The International Group of P&I Clubs (the Group) is pleased to announce that from February 20, 2025, paperless trading systems will be ‘deemed approved’, if they comply with certain requirements. The requirements for ‘deemed approval’ are:

i)the system permits ‘compliant’ electronic bills of...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2025/02/05/american-pi-club-circular-no-05-25-dd-05-feb-25/

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By BIMCO

BIMCO has launched the “25 by 25 pledge”, a commitment by some of the world’s biggest shippers in the bulk sector to target moving 25% of their annual seaborne trade volume for at least one commodity using electronic bills of lading by 2025. The pledge is part of an ongoing effort to accelerate trade...

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Commentary: Electronic bills of lading necessary but not sufficient

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The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), a nonprofit formed in 2019, has been at the forefront of helping the ocean vessel sector pivot from paper to digital documents and improve the scheduling of containerized shipments. Of course, 2020 saw a lot of pivoting due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in e-commerce-related imports. The DCSA has...

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