The game is changing for container shipping. Digitalisation, regulatory complexity, cyber security, environmental impact. Customers are demanding a better experience. To stay competitive, we have to meet these challenges head on, to evolve.
No one company can move the industry forward on its own. Collaboration is the key to greater efficiency and agility to meet new demands.
Today, fragmented systems are holding us back. Without a foundation for the seamless, end-to-end exchange of information, these challenges will go unmet.
At Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), we’re establishing standards for a common technology foundation that enables global collaboration. Our goal is to make shipping services easy to use, flexible, efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly.
Standardisation Initiatives
DCSA sets technology standards in conjunction with our member companies. By driving wide adoption of these standards, DCSA’s goal is to increase the ability of carriers to innovate and grow at scale.
All DCSA standards are published regularly on our website and are free to use by anyone who touches the container shipping industry. For example, ports can supply a consistent set of information to carriers based on our Track & Trace data standard to simplify operations.
News & events
Check out our latest news:
2020.12.18 DCSA releases IoT standards for remote Reefer container monitoring on board vessels
2020.12.08. DCSA Publishes Standards for the Bill of Lading
2020.11.17. BIC and DCSA collaborate to standardize container facility identification
2020.11.09. Quarterly Member Newsletter – Issue 4, Autumn Edition, October 2020
2020.10.20. DCSA Publishes Standard Data Definitions to Enable Just-in-Time Port Calls
2020.09.29. DCSA releases first set of standards for cargo operations
2020.09.22. Building a new path to standardisation – Edition 100 by Port Technology
2020.07.21. Quarterly Member Newsletter – Issue 3, Summer Edition, July 2020
2020.07.07. DCSA Publishes Standards for Digital Exchange of Operational Vessel Schedules
2020.06.02. DCSA Establishes IoT Standards for Container Connectivity
2020.05.19. DCSA Takes on eBL Standardisation, Calls for Collaboration (in PDF format)
2020.05.14. DCSA Publishes Release 1.2 of Track & Trace Interface Standards
2020.04.21. Quarterly Member Newsletter – Issue 2, Anniversary Edition, April 2020
