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The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted supply chains and global trade flows and affected delivery of public services. As part of the emergency response, governments worldwide adopted measures to fast-track imports of essential goods and medical supplies, and to provide public services while maintaining contact restrictions and changes in staff assignments. They also adopted provisional measures to digitalize information exchange or just receive scanned or photographed copies of documents, to verify content through electronic means and to reduce the frequency of physical inspections of goods and means of transport.

Пандемия коронавирусного заболевания COVID-19 существенно нарушила цепи поставок и дестабилизировала глобальные торговые потоки, а также оказала воздействие на предоставление государственных услуг. В качестве мер экстренного реагирования на чрезвычайные ситуации, правительствами стран были введены упрощенные процедуры как для импорта товаров первой необходимости и предметов медицинского назначения, так и для предоставления государственных услуг, при одновременном сохранении ограничений на контакты между людьми и принятии изменений в процедурах назначения сотрудников. Административные органы по всему миру также ввели временные меры по цифровизации информационного обмена, либо же в целях обеспечения возможности принятия отсканированных или сфотографированных копий документов, проведения проверок соответствия информации электронным образом, а также для снижения частоты проведения физических инспекций грузов и транспортных средств.

The current practice of the exchange of electronic messages for transport and logistics using UN/EDIFACT has provided a trusted and stable environment to communicate efficiently between actors in the supply chain since its introduction in 1990. The ongoing digitalization of supply chains, introduction of IoT devices such as smart containers, eCMR, and adoption of data pipeline principles in the transport and logistics domain processes raises new data requirements and migration path between these UN/EDIFACT messages and the Multi Modal Transport Reference Data Model (MMT RDM) is a key move to support future requirements.

The International Forwarding and Transport package contains the following elements:

Bookings form an integral part of the ‘Buy-Ship-Pay’ model where the transportation of goods is not only using available capacity offered by a Transport Service Provider but binds the supply chain together with a Transport Plan. This provides multiple interested parties with the planned movements of a consignment journey from which the delivery of service can be executed and measured.

The Booking Standard Package package contains the following elements:

The Shipping Instructions are variously known as Shipping Instructions, Forwarding Instructions, Shippers Letter of Instruction and would typically follow the Booking from the Transport Service Buyer to the Transport Service Provider as a pre-cursor to the issuing of a waybill which then acts as the evidence of the transport contract.

The Shipping Instructions package contains the following elements:

The Waybill is the evidence of a contract between the Transport Service Buyer and the Transport Service Provider, it is usually issued on collection or receipt by the Transport Service Provider. The waybill is used as a document of title and to show who has the right of ownership of the goods being transported.

The waybill is a common term covering various terms used in different modes of transport, for example;
• Bill of Lading, Ocean Bill of Lading, or Sea Waybill is used in Sea freight
• Air Waybill or eAWB is used in Airfreight
• Consignment Note (CMR or eCMR) is used in Road
• Rail Transport Document CIM and SGMS are used in Rail

The Waybill package includes the following elements:

The tracking of a consignment, goods or transport equipment is imperative to a success of a supply chain operation, accurate and timely status updates allow the Consignor and Consignee to plan and manage the flow and timing, identifying exceptions early on so that risk and disruption can be minimised. The status reporting processes can cover ad-hoc reporting (request) or contractual reporting (subscription).

The Equipment Status Report package includes the following elements:

The  Cross-Industry Export Packing   List   process   has   been   compiled   within   the   context   of   the   United   Nations   Development  Account  (UNDA)  coronavirus  (COVID-19)  response  project  “Transport  and  Trade Connectivity in the Age of Pandemics”, with a view to increase the harmonization and standardization  of  data  exchange  in  international  transport,  trade  and  logistics  to  reduce  person-to-person contacts during the COVID-19 crisis and in the post-pandemic recovery.

The Export Packing List Standard package includes the following elements:

The Rapid Alert for Food & Feed (RASFF) Process has been compiled using the RASFF system and process of the European Commission and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) as a base, with contributions of the Dutch Food Safety Authority and other relevant organisations. The generic design is offering Control Authorities in the domain of Health and Food Safety and other authorities (such as Customs)the opportunity to contextualize the information by using the UN/CEFACT Core Component Business Document Assembly (CCBDA) methodology.

The RASFF Standard package includes the following elements: