Regional Logistics Information Sharing

NEAL-NET

Gu Jingyan Vice Council Chair of NEAL-NET

Director of Transport and Logistics Research Center of Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport, China

2015.12.10 Bangkok

It is the regional cooperation and

exchange mechanism to promote

Northeast Asia logistics information

sharing on the basis of the

mechanism of China-Japan-

Republic of Korea Ministerial

Conference on Transport and

Logistics

• Background

• Institutional Arrangement

• System Design

• Progress

• Future Plan

CONTENT

Background

NEAL-NET

The total aggregated GDP of the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic

of 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 Exchanging & 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 to solve the issues above, the Governments of China,

Republic of Korea, and Japan signed MOU to establish Northeast

Asia Logistics Information Service Network (NEAL-NET)

Objective of NEAL-NET:

1. To interconnect logistics information systems of China, Japan and Republic of Korea.

2. To encourage researches on logistics information standards technologies.

3. To promote technological exchange, training popularization of logistics information

systems.

Background

China-Japan-Republic of Korea establishes NEAL-NET cooperative

mechanism to establish sharing network, define logistics information sharing

standard and promote to establish logistics information sharing structure.

In 2008, the 2nd Japan-China-Republic of Korea Ministerial Conference on Maritime

Transport and Logistics was held in Japan, and decided to set up a working group to

carry out research 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, and

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 vessel dynamic and container status information sharing

(Nov. 2013)

Institutional Arrangement

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

Responsibility

NEAL-NET decision-making body : Joint steering committee

Routine work decision-making body: Council

The highest leader of routine work: Rotating Council Chair, reporting to Joint steering committee on behalf of executing office.

Current matters and activities: Secretariat

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 node. 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

Maritime Road transport Road transport

Container Terminal

Container Terminal

Surface

Aviation

Maritime Container Transport

NEAL-NET Working Phases

• At current stage, NEAL-NET cooperation mainly focuses on International Maritime

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 ls 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

How to share logistics information

• In order to reduce obstacles and provide possibility for heterogeneous

systems to share information:

1. Unify Basic Data Elements

2. Unify Coding System

3. Unify System Interface

• After unifying interfaces, government should support logistics information

provider to provide one-stop information service in each country.

1. Providing single service window, reduce the cost of negotiating with multi

information source

2. Improving the accuracy of data and making information available more timely

and coherently

Now, Logink in China, Colins in Japan and SP-IDC in Republic of Korea take the lead in

each country

– China side selected COSCON (E-commerce platform), COSCO Logistics (internal

business system), Zhejiang Electronic Port (software of freight forwarder) and so on,

had conducted the software interface reformation so as to query the interface. The

functions of interface and standards were verified comprehensively. Reached first stage

achievement and got highly appraise from user.

The freighter-forwarder software

of Zhejiang Electronic Port

NEAL-NET home page

The querying interface of

COSCO Logistics

COSCON E-commerce site

Client Development & Interface Evaluation- China

– Republic of Korea side: SP-IDC developed interface query page to evaluate the

function of the interface. Pilot reached first stage achievement.

Client Development & Interface Evaluation – Republic of Korea

– Japan side: developed interface query page to evaluate the function of the interface.

– Mar, 2012, Japan side finished linkage project of NEAL-NET Interface and center

database.

– Pilot project reached first phase achievement.

Client Development & Interface Evaluation - Japan

The three countries have finished dynamic

container vessel status query and container

status information sharing by using unified

standard(NEAL-NET Standard) among pilot ports.

CJK 17 ports have finished interface rebuilding of

dynamic container vessel status standard

10 4 3

4 Ports in China, 4 Ports in Japan and 3 Ports in

Republic of Korea have rebuilt 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

• 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

• Republic of Korea

NEAL-NET Port Logistics Information Sharing Service coverage

Progress

NEAL-NET in process

– Administrator Guideline

– Republic of Korea(SP-IDC) , Japan(COLINS) and

China(LOGINK) will develop 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

– Republic of 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, Dalian, Shekou

ports in 2015 and go-live 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 two 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.

– Republic of Korea side will discuss about the above new

events with domestic service provider such as Customs

and Inspection authorities.

NEAL-NET in process

– Dangerous Goods information sharing

– CJK will discuss with related government departments

about the possibility of DG information sharing.

– ADB TA Project

– ADB consultants will provide support for NEAL-NET to

increase interoperability with the international standards in the future.

NEAL-NET in process

Future Plan

Logistics information

sharing will cover

Road , Railway and

Aviation

Realize end to end

transparent supply

chain management

Soon: Finish the three countries coverage

Middle phase: Expand to EU and ASEAN countries

Long Tem: Expand to North America and other Regions

www.nealnet.org Northeast Asia Logistics Information Service Network

GU Jingyan Mobile:13701339306 Email: jy.gu@rioh.cn