Reconciling a Standardized Dataset with international standards and data models, development of schemas for electronic equivalents of railway carriage documents SMGS, CIM/SMGS and CIM in XML and JSON formats

05 August 2022

Short description

The current project has been initiated with the main objectives to support the development of digital multimodal transport corridors, increase the harmonization and standardization of data exchange in international transport and logistics, encourage electronic data exchange and thus to reduce people-to-people contacts during the COVID-19 crisis and in the post-pandemic recovery by using the relevant standards and Multimodal Reference Data Model (MMT RDM) of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT).

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This report covers the following main tasks and outputs:

Analysis of international trade flows passing through the Republic of Belarus, considering the use of SMGS consignment notes, CIM/SMGS and CIM consignment notes.
Analysis of digital interaction of participants in international freight rail and multimodal transport, including pilot projects of the EU and the EAEU.
Justification of the possibility and necessity of using the UN/CEFACT standard in international rail and multimodal transport.
Comparison of basic railway documents with the Multi-Modal Transport Reference Data Model (MMT-RDM).
Development of schemas of electronic equivalents of railway documents in xml and json formats.

Based on the conducted research, conclusions were drafted about the problems of direct conversion of shipping documents of different types of transport in international multimodal transportation. Options for solving these problems by freight forwarders in the framework of pilot projects are proposed. The roles and integration functions of freight forwarders in international multimodal freight transportation have been defined. Proposals have been developed to improve the Kaliningrad Transit pilot project, as well as the Zubr and Viking projects between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, with extension to the GUAM and TRACECA routes.