Hong Kong Debuts Digital Platform to Centralize Cargo Tracking

Hong Kong is rolling retired a integer level aimed astatine tracking cargo successful existent clip and sharing information crossed antithetic modes of transport including sea, onshore and aerial to bolster end-to-end visibility for proviso concatenation stakeholders successful the peculiar administrative region.

In launching the Port Community System (PCS), Hong Kong wants to beforehand digitization wrong its larboard community, amended accusation interconnectivity crossed sectors, heighten the Port of Hong Kong’s competitiveness arsenic a transshipment hub and amended link the larboard with different planetary gateways.

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First announced past May by Hong Kong’s national Transport and Logistics Bureau (TLB), the level is acceptable to debut successful January. The authorities allocated 215 cardinal Hong Kong dollars ($27.6 million) to instal the system.

A presumption from the bureau indicated that the larboard had lacked a unified data-sharing strategy for stakeholders progressive successful the cargo transportation process, and sought to travel successful the footsteps of large larboard cities specified arsenic Singapore and Europe’s Rotterdam and Hamburg, which gradually developed their ain systems.

Mable Chan, China’s caput for transport and logistics, said successful a station connected the TLB website successful June that the strategy is designed to marque shipping afloat transparent to beforehand accelerated and close logistics operations.

“The PCS, arsenic a one-stop platform, tin ‘internally connect’ each applicable units successful the section logistics proviso concatenation and ‘externally link’ with home and planetary ports, arsenic good arsenic planetary shipping commercialized information platforms, keeping america astatine the halfway of the integer shipping world,” Chan said.

Importers and exporters, shipping companies, warehousing companies, trucking firms, freight forwarders and larboard terminal operators tin each enactment successful the PCS.

The bureau’s presumption indicates that users tin participate a measure of lading fig successful the PCS to stitchery a vessel’s location, departure and accomplishment time, alongside expected instrumentality merchandise status. Similarly, users tin participate a waybill fig for aerial cargo to way boarding, departure and accomplishment time.

Users tin besides make a QR codification to facilitate recognition of cargo by proscription and logistics companies operating connected land.  A motortruck operator tin activate determination tracking to stock the truck’s real-time determination with different parties, portion warehouse unit tin scan the provided QR codification for confirmation, truthful each parties are informed of the goods’ accomplishment astatine the warehouse.