E-Documents for co-modal transport of goods

Outline

• Moving away from paper-based documents;
  • Will it create more reliable information exchange?
  • Will this reduce the administrative burden?
  • Will this enhance the accuracy of data?
• What are the advantages of using a standard, multimodal waybill (electronic transport document) rather than individual multimodal bills?
• Can the issues relating to liability be circumvented?
• Will simple access to digital collaboration benefit all parties in the logistics chain?

See below for time schedule of panels and speakers.

Time schedule

10.00 – Welcome address

Marco Sorgetti, Director General FIATA

Panel Debate: How to facilitate digital transactions in the exchange of information between stakeholders in the supply chain whilst reinsuring the sufficient interoperability.

Moderator: Eva Molnar, Director of the UNECE Transport Division

Panel Speakers on: A business perspective on E-applications in the exchange of goods:

• Steve Smith, Vice President E-Applications and Technology Airfreight for DHL Global Forwarding
• Michael Fritz, Global Head ECM, Kuehne + Nagel

Panel Speakers on: EU Commission initiatives to advance e-Freight: overview of the multimodal eWaybill being developed in e-Freight

• Astrid Schlewing, Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport - DG MOVE Unit D1 - Maritime Transport & Logistics on: The Common Framework: A new paradigm for electronic information exchange in freight transport and logistics – an illustration of how it facilitates the multimodal eWaybill
• Mary Vayou, MSc,  E-Freight Project Coordinator, BMT

11.15 – 11.45 Break
 

11.45 – 13.00 Panel Debate: Digitalisation of the FIATA documents

• Is an electronic document unique or are all electronic copies that are identical the same document?
• Issuing documents of title, endorsing them, trading with them: will this be more or less complex than making a bank wire transfer?
• Will simple access to digital collaboration benefit all parties in the logistics chain?

Moderator: Nicolette van der Jagt, Director General, CLECAT

Panel Speakers:

• Dr. ing Jan Tore Pedersen, MARLO
• Marco L. Sorgetti, Director General, FIATA
• Michael Dill, CEO, GEFEG mbH
• Michael Demeuse, Business Unit Manager, Roots Software
• Alex Goulandris, CEO, Electronic Shipping Solutions-Databridge
• Tim McGrath, Managing Director of Document Engineering   Services, Vice-Chair UN/CEFACT Bureau and Vice-Chair OASIS Univeral Business Language