By setting frameworks for effective, universally adoptable solutions and innovating, we can enable transparent, reliable, easy to use, secure and environmentally friendly container transportation services.
DCSA
DCSA
Creating digital standards for the container shipping industry
Our mission
Our mission
To shape the digital future of container shipping by being the industry’s collective voice, working towards alignment and standardisation.
No one company can move the industry forward on its own.
No one company can move the industry forward on its own.
We envision a digitally interconnected container shipping industry in which customers have a choice of seamless, easy-to-use services that provide the flexibility to meet their business and sustainability goals.
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Your needs
Working together to solve your needs
We work for the collective good of all shipping container stakeholders, recognising each players' crucial role in the supply chain.
Our industry-wide standards
Our industry-wide standards
We are establishing standards for a common technology foundation that enables global collaboration to make user-friendly, flexible, efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly.
Implement our standards
Our developer portal is your gateway to a world of resources to make your implementation journey as easy as possible.
Latest resources
Press release
DCSA completes standards-based interoperable eBL transaction, marking major industry milestone
Announcement
DCSA welcomes Lufthansa Industry Solutions and Vinturas as first partners of its DCSA+ partnership programme at TPM25
2024: the year of adoption, collaboration and smart containers - what TPM taught us
Article
The future of container shipping: A podcast with Kshitij Parashar, DCSA’s Program Lead for Cargo Visibility
VideoSupply Chain Visibility Solutions: Mastering Challenges & boosting Container Shipping Success
ArticleBill of Lading (B/L) vs Sea Waybill
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Nine founding members
In April of 2019, MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Evergreen, Yang Ming, HMM and ZIM founded DCSA to establish IT standards that would enable interoperability of technology solutions across the industry. The purpose is to facilitate digital interconnectivity and seamless data communication that anyone who touches the industry can leverage. DCSA standards are developed in close conjunction with the member carriers who validate, align and agree to them and work with DCSA to ensure widespread adoption.
Meet our team of experts changing the industry
In the face of the promising growth in international container trade by 2025, the maritime industry confronts the significant challenge of supporting the expansion sustainably.