NEAL-NET Facilitates Logistics Information Sharing in Maritime Silk

Road Initiative

Wu Yizhou National Transport & Logistics Public Information Platform (LOGINK)

Ministry of Transport, China

2015.12.15 Port Klang, Malaysia

National Transport & Logistics Public Information Platform (LOGINK), is

an open , public and sharing Logistics Information Exchange Network,

which is financed by Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China &

The People’s Government of Zhejiang Province. Road Transportation

Administration Bureau of Zhejiang Province established LOGINK managed

center to construct and promote LOGINK, and participated the construction of

Northeast Asia Logistics Information Service Network (NEAL-NET) on behalf of

China MOT.

What is LOGINK

www.logink.org

Missions of LOGINK

– To establish China logistics information standard system. – To construct logistics information resource directory and basic

information interchange system based on LOGINK standards, all cost will be covered by government.

– To develop one-stop portal connected with global logistics information systems.

– To provide value added service based on data mining and data fusion supported by 3rd party.

It is a regional cooperation mechanism to promote logistics information sharing on the basis of the mechanism of China-Japan-Korea Ministerial Conference on Transport and Logistics

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• Background • System Design • Progress • Future Plan

CONTENT

Background

NEAL-NET

The total aggregated GDP of the Peoples‘ Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea is approximately 20% of the world and 70% of Asia economy.

Foreign trade and foreign investment of three Countries are both 20% of the world. Trade between the three countries amounted to $689 billion in 2014.

The container through put of the three Countries accounts for 33% of the world total. The container through put between the three Countries accounts for 1.3% of the world.

Northeast Asia is one of the centers of the world economic activities.

Background

Exporter Importer TOS（container terminal:

Port）

TOS（container terminal:

Port）

Forwarder , warehouse etc

Forwarder , warehouse etc

Shipping companies’

system

Inefficient Logistics Information Interchanging & Sharing Service

Country B Country A

Shipper Logistics company

Background

Background

Exp Port

Marine Transport Consigner Distribution Consignee Road

Transport

Invisible from Consigner and Consignee’s view Visible

Imp Customs

Exp Customs

Imp Port

Information Sharing Barrier among International Trade Players Becomes Bottleneck in Logistics Process

In order solve issues above, China, Korea, Japan government signed MOU to found Northeast Asia Logistics Information

Service Network (NEAL-NET)

Objective of NEAL-NET: 1. To interconnect logistics information systems of China, Japan and Korea. 2. To encourage researches on logistics information standards technologies. 3. To promote technological exchange, training popularization of logistics information systems.

Background

China-Japan-Korea establishes NEAL-NET cooperative mechanism to establish sharing network, define logistics information sharing standard and promote to establish logistics information sharing structure.

NEAL-NET Organization

Joint Steering Committee

Deputy Secretary-generals

Secretariat Council Members

Rotating Chair

Secretary-general

Secretaries

Council Members Liaison Officers

Network Members

Rotating Council Chair

Vice Council Chairs

On 2008, the 2nd Japan-China-Korea Ministerial Conference on Maritime Transport and Logistics was held in Japan, decided to set up a working group to carry out researches on the interconnection of logistics information.

On 2 December 2010, the vice ministers from the Transport Logistics Ministries of The Three Countries jointly signed the Cooperative Mechanism in Hangzhou, China officially launched NEAL-NET. On the following day, the 1st Council Meeting of NEAL-NET was held.

Background

“Welcomed the progress made by the three countries in developing sea-land combined transportation and establishing the Northeast Asia Logistics Information Service Network and encouraged the logistics information sharing technology research and expedited service application and the expansion of the network”. -The 5th CJK Leaders Summit announced declaration

Big Event

The Inaugural Ceremony of the Northeast Asia Logistics Information Service Network

(Dec. 2010)

Opening ceremony of NEAL-NET Logistics Information Sharing Interface

(Dec.2011)

Opening the container status information sharing

(Nov. 2013)

System Design

Task

– NEAL-NET itself doesn’t generate any logistics information. The main task of NEAL-NET is to define the interface standards of each public logistics nodes. And then promote the logistics nodes to rebuild their interfaces in accordance with these standards to realize cross nodes data sharing

Warehouse/Plant

Warehouse/Plant

Marine Road transport Road transport

Container Terminal

Container Terminal

Surface Aviation

Marine Container Transport

NEAL-NET Working Phases

• At current stage, NEAL-NET cooperation mainly focuses on International Marine Container Transport.

Railway

Scope

NEAL-NET Standard

– NEAL-NET’s logistics information sharing standards including data elements, code sets and interface format. It is called NEAL-NET Standards.

– NEAL-NET Standards adopt a framework which is suitable for status sharing.

– Interface using Web Service and SOAP message for data transmission.

Web service

EPCIS

NEAL-Net

Standard

ETA ATA Unloading Container Departure Cy-Open Container

Entering Cy-Cut Loading ATD

Cal l s ign ABCEF

eventTime YYYYMMDDhhmmss

#VesselName Hyundai Fa i th

#VoyageNumber Import Voyage

#IMONumber IMO9295218

#ShippingCompanyCode HMMC

#EstimatedTimeOfArriva l YYYYMMDDhhmmss

#EstimatedTimeofBerthing YYYYMMDDhhmmss

#EstimatedTimeofDeparture -

#CyOpenDateTime YYYYMMDDhhmmss

#CyCutDateTime YYYYMMDDhhmmss

#LastPortCode KRPUS

#NextPortCode JPTYO

#CourseLine CN-JP

Define events in each node

Define data items in each event Define the data dictionary of each information item.

Step 3 Step 4

Step 5

Decide the interface format

Port Railway freight terminals Airport Road

freight terminals Define public logistics nodes

Step 1

Step 2

How to define the NEAL-NET Standard

– First step, dynamic container vessel status sharing interface will be defined – 9 basic events of dynamic vessel schedule and container status are abstracted and

technical framework is designed. • vessel properties: ETA, ATA,CY-Open, CY-Cut and ATD • container properties: Unloading, Container Gate Out, Container Gate In, Loading

ETA ATA Unloading Container Departure CY-Open Container

Entering CY-Cut Loading ATD

Import Voyage Export Voyage

Container Property

Vessel Property Vessel Property

Vessel Property

Vessel Property

Container Property

Container Property

Events

Dynamic Vessel Status and Container Status Sharing Standard

Port Logistics Information Sharing

船名 Vessel Name

航次 Voyage Number

IMO号 IMO Number

船舶状态 Vessel Status

状态发生时间 Status Occurred Time

状态记录时间 Status Recorded Time

状态发生地点 Status Occurred Location

预计抵港时间 ETA

预计靠岸时间 ETB

预计离港时间 ETD

进箱开始时间 CyOpen Time

进箱截止时间 CyCut Time

上一港口 Previous Port

下一港口 Next Port

航线代码 Course Line

Container Vessel Status Sharing Service

Voyage Number IMO Number Container

Status

Status Occurred Time Status Recorded Time Status Occurred Location

Container Operator Code

Container Size Type

Container Gross Weight

Container Loading Status

Container Seal Number

Vehicle License Plate Number

Bill Of Lading Number

Container Number

Container Status Sharing Service

The Three Countries had finished dynamic container vessel status query and container status information sharing by using unified standard(NEAL-NET Standard) among pilot ports.

CJK 18 ports had finished interface rebuilding of dynamic container vessel status standard

11 4 3

4 Ports in China, 4 Ports in Japan and 3 Ports in Korea had rebuilded interface of container status to achieve the sharing of container status information.

Num. Port Container Vessel Status Container Status 1 Yingkou Port Yes 2 Yantai Port Yes Yes 3 Weihai Port Yes 4 Qingdao Port Yes 5 Rizhao Port Yes 6 Tianjin Port Yes 7 Lianyungang Port Yes Yes 8 Wenzhou Port Yes Yes 9 Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Yes Yes

10 Shekou Port Yes 11 Dalian Port Yes Yes

• China

NEAL-NET Port Logistics Information Sharing Service coverage

Num. Port Container Vessel Status Container Status 1 Tokyo-Yokohama Yes Yes 2 Kawasaki Yes Yes 3 Kobe Yes Yes 4 Osaka Yes Yes

Num. Port Container Vessel Status Container Status 1 Busan Yes Yes 2 Incheon Yes Yes 3 Gwangyang Yes Yes

• Japan

• Korea

NEAL-NET Port Logistics Information Sharing Service coverage

Benefits

Accuracy and Timeliness of Data 1.Record based search guarantees that hit information is accurate and fresh

High Information Security 1.Each service provider and each country can have full control of their service, without data ownership issue 2.Authentication and access privilege can be controlled easily

Unified and Extensible Data Format 1.Unified data format support easy service integration 2.Extensible data architecture support flexible extension to other business area

Convenience for Ender User 1.Since the interface of each node was unified, users don’t have to reform interface again and again

Progress

NEAL-NET in process

– Administrator Guideline – Korea(SP-IDC) , Japan(COLINS) and China(LOGINK)

are developing helpdesk for all service providers. – CJK will discuss in detail and confirm the final version

of administrator guideline at the next technical meeting.

– Push Service – CJK will continue to review and investigate technical

solution for push service and continue discussion in next technical meeting.

– Service Port Expansion – Korea side plans to finish development for Ulsan,

Pyeongtaek ports by the end of 2015 and go-live in 2016. – China side plans to open Shaoxing, Jiaxing ports and will

start negotiation for implementing Qinzhou, Shekou and other ports in 2016.

– Japan side got positive response from Yokkaichi, Niigata ports for joining NEAL-NET service and is under negotiation.

NEAL-NET in process

– New Standards Definition – Proposal of 2 standards of Customs Clearance Status and

Container Yards Status which has been completed by China side

– Japan side will prepare new events (Inspection Event, Condition Delivery Order) into Customs Clearance Status Service & (Permission of Delivery Container from CY event) into Container Status Service master spread sheets.

– Korea side will discuss about the above new events with domestic service provider such as Customs and Inspection authorities.

NEAL-NET in process

For Maritime Silk Road Initiative Through Malaysia

Recently: Finish the three countries coverage Middle phase: Expand to EU and ASEAN countries Long Tem: Expand to North America and other Regions

– China Ministry of Transport proposes to realize information sharing among member ports by using NEAL-NET standards and cooperation mechanism – LOGINK and NEAL-NET could provide necessary technical

supports – MOT of China could also provide necessary funding

support on future cooperation – Next NEAL-NET technical meeting will be held at Tokyo,

Japan on late Feb,2016. Sincerely invite member ports’ business and technical experts to join the meeting and discuss future cooperation issues

For future works on logistics information sharing

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WU Yizhou Mobile:+86-18667135121 Email: wuyz@nealnet.org