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Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and ONE have constituted the Digital Container Shipping Association
The scope is to develop computer science standards for the field of the containerized marine transport
April 16, 2019
Shipowning societies A.P. Møller-Mærsk, Hapag-Lloyd, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Ocean Network Express (ONE), all assets in the field of the marine transport of line, market in which is respective first, second, fifth and sixth world-wide operator for cargo ability of the fleet, have formally instituted the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), association nonprofit with center to Amsterdam, in Holland, that it has the scope to examine, to develop, to adopt and to update standard of information technology for the creation, transmission and storing of information and documents that are exchanged between the participants to the supply chain of the international containerized marine transport.
The association is opened to the adhesion of other containerized companies of navigation. Preannunciando last November the initiative ( on 15 November 2018), the four shipowning societies founders of the DCSA were placed side by side by the French shipowning group CMA CGM that turns out partner of the project of creation of the association Maritime subordinate to the American Federal Commission (FMC), than it has approved of it in recent days, but that it has up to now not joined formally the association. Today Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, MSC and ONE however have specified that arrangements for the adhesion to DCSA of others are on two society.
Managing director and statutory director of the new association are named Thomas Bagge of Danish group A.P. Møller-Mærsk.
"For the first time in twenty years - it has commented André Simha, chief information officer of group MSC and president of the surveillance council of the DCSA - the field of the containerized marine transport has joined with the objective common to carry the section in the digital era. With the happened approval by the authorities, we do not see the hour that the association beginnings to work and to collaborate with the many you leave interested of the entire one value chain".
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Shipowning societies A.P. Møller-Mærsk, Hapag-Lloyd, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Ocean Network Express (ONE), all assets in the field of the marine transport of line, market in which is respective first, second, fifth and sixth world-wide operator for cargo ability of the fleet, have formally instituted the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), association nonprofit with center to Amsterdam, in Holland, that it has the scope to examine, to develop, to adopt and to update standard of information technology for the creation, transmission and storing of information and documents that are exchanged between the participants to the supply chain of the international containerized marine transport.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
