Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Seaboard Marine has been very active in advancements with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Our Current ASCII Capabilities

The shipper or forwarder can use this transaction set to reserve cargo space.

This message is used to confirm the Booking Request (Message 300).

This message supplies the same information as the Shipper’s Letter of Instruction. It provides all the information necessary to prepare and distribute a contract of carriage (ocean bill of lading and other shipping documents).

This message is a summary of bills of lading on a manifest. It’s currently being used to exchange information with several overseas governmental authorities.

This system transmits inbound cargo information to US Customs and receives cargo release/hold status from US Customs.

This message includes all information normally found on a bill of lading, including freight charges.

This message is used to report status or event details (cargo receipt, departure and arrival) for individual shipments.

This message is used to communicate terminal and intermodal ramp activities (i.e. “ingates” and “outgates”)

This message provides all information necessary to communicate the schedule and itinerary of an ocean vessel.

This transaction set allows shippers or other interested parties to offer (tender) a shipment to a motor carrier including detailed scheduling, equipment requirements, commodities, and shipping instructions.

Using this message, transportation carriers may provide shippers, consignees, and their agents with the status of shipments in terms of dates, times, locations, route, identifying numbers, and conveyance.

The Response to a Load Tender is used as the response to a Motor Carrier Load Tender Transaction Set (204) which has been used as a load tender.

This message is used to validate an EDI document was sent by or received by the trading partner and to inform the sender/receiver of any errors within that document.

Our Current EDIFACT Capabilities

This message is used to report that specific containers have been discharged or loaded from or to a seagoing vessel.

This message is used to report that specific containers have been delivered or picked up by the inland carrier, (road, rail or barge).

A message to order to the container terminal that specified containers have to be discharged from a seagoing vessel or have to be loaded into a seagoing vessel.

A message to release certain containers and giving permission for them to be picked up by or on behalf of a specified party.

This message permits the transfer of data from a carrier to a Customs administration for the purpose of meeting Customs cargo reporting requirements.

This Customs response message permits the transfer of data from a customs administration to the sender of Customs data.

A message to transmit information about equipment and goods including their location on a means of transport.

This message contains information on the verified gross mass, (VGM), of a packed piece of transported equipment including the time, place and references required by the receiver to assign the VGM.

This message is used to validate an EDI document was sent by or received by the trading partner and to inform the sender/receiver of any errors within that document.