ELECTRONIC FIATA MULTIMODAL BILL OF LADING DATA STANDARD AVAILABLE AS OPEN-SOURCE
On 10 March, FIATA and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) announced the official release of the electronic FIATA Multimodal Bill of Lading (eFBL) data standard. The data standard, created on the basis of the mapping of the Negotiable FIATA Multimodal Transport Bill of Lading (FBL) with the UN/CEFACT MMT reference data model, allows the exchange of BL data in a standardised way, facilitating interoperability between all modes of transport and industry stakeholders.
Available via FIATA’s GitHub repository, the data standard is offered as open source for all software providers and industry stakeholders to implement. The eFBL data standard is the first outcome of the FIATA and UNECE collaboration. Three other FIATA standard documents are in the process of being mapped with the UN/CEFACT MMT RDM and the respective data standards are expected to be released by the end of Q2 2022: the Non-negotiable FIATA Multimodal Transport Waybill (FWB), the FIATA Warehouse Receipt (FWR) and the FIATA Forwarders Certificate of Receipt (FCR).
Source: FIATA