This article is a follow-up to two earlier pieces, produced largely by the same authors, outlining the development of semantic and technical interoperability in digitising global multimodal supply chains.
Smart Container solutions empower supply chain stakeholders to enhance their operations using reliable physical data to provide door-to-door visibility and AI-based predictive services for deriving predictive event determination, as well as visibility into the status and environmental...
A group of senior executives from across the freight transport modes have issued a call for the industry to develop common multimodal standards.
The aim is to “meet the heightened expectations of sellers and buyers when it comes to detailed tracking of the location and condition of their goods”.
The Loadstar today publishes the first of a two-part article produced by the group, which explains the work under way to develop a …
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The Digital Container Sipping Association (DCSA) today unveiled a new set of common standards for the tracking and tracing of shipping containers in global supply chains.
DCSA chief executive Thomas Bagge said the DCSA was “directly engaging” customer representatives, such as FIATA, CLECAT and the European Shippers Council, to raise awareness among liner shipping customers that the standards will allow any industry stakeholder to enable container shipment tracking across carriers and …
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The quest to develop a set of standards for data collected from smart containers has taken an important step forward.
The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) has published its first set of standards which will help interoperability between different systems in the container supply chain.
UN/CEFACT’s Business Requirements Specifications (BRS) initiative was led by smart container technology developer Traxens, which includes CMA GCM and MSC among its …
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A container shipping group to help coordinate the industry’s rapid digitisation has formally launched after a green light from the US Federal Maritime Commission.
MSC, Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express (ONE) officially established the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) last week in Amsterdam, with Maersk’s Thomas Bagge named chief executive and MSC’s Andre Simha (pictured above) chairman.
Mr Simha, who is chief information officer of MSC, said the main aim of …
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