1 Scope
This Technical Specification specifies the data concepts applicable to the movement
of freight and its intermodal transfer. These data concepts include information entities (data
elements), aggregated/associated information entities (groups of data elements) and
messages that comprise information exchanges at transport interfaces along the chain
of participants responsible for the delivery of goods from the point of origin through to the final recipient as presented in Figure 1. This Technical Specification focuses on a single "thread" of the overall end-to-end
supply chain.
It includes motor transport data needs within the international supply chain to satisfy
the requirements of both businesses and governmental organizations. This Technical
Specification is applicable to shipments that originate in one country and terminate in another. It may also be applied to
shipments that originate and terminate in a single country. This Technical Specification is
applicable to freight movements that interface with other modes and incorporates requirements set for those
other modes.
This Technical Specification does not constrain the requirements of customs , regulatory, and safety bodies at border crossings but does include the data elements
likely to be required by customs authorities . The same is true with the requirements of any particular mode of operation.
Figure 1
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