Multi Industry Scenarios for Transport - Eurofer

1. INTRODUCTION
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MIST Working Group, version 2001
In the last decade standard solutions for Information and Communication Technology in the
transport sector have been developed that could increase the efficiency and effectiveness of
operations between consignors, transport service providers and consignees.
These standards include the EDIFACT Transport messages and the ITIGG implementation
guidelines for these messages, the CEN standard for the Multi Industry Transport Label
(MITL) including the license plate for unique identification (for which the Serial Shipping
Container Code SSCC of EAN can be used). In addition other and new technologies for
information exchange (XML, mobile communications, Web-forms) and automatic
identification (smart cards, radio frequency tags) exist or are in development.
Detailed documentation of these standards is available, but it was felt that a description was
lacking of the various business scenarios between consignors, transport service providers
and consignees, giving an understanding of where and how the different standards benefit
the transport operations.
MIST was created in 1996 as a joint group of industries and transport to investigate business
scenarios for the transportation of goods and the relevant information flows between traders
and transport service providers.
The goal of MIST is to develop scenarios for information exchange in a Multi-Industry and
Multi-modal environment, facilitating the movements of goods and integrating technological
tools.
MIST develops:
• scenarios between trade and transport;
• scenarios for different modes of transport (road, rail, maritime);
• list of terms;
• descriptions of applying technological tools (EDI messages, guidelines, MITL) to the
scenario’s and their possible business benefits;
• description of other relevant issues.
The present Report identifies and explains the business scenarios in the different modes of
transport (except air) and indicates specifically which EDI messages can be used for the
exchange of information between parties. In this version the use of automatic identification
(transport barcoded labels) is indicated through highlighting in the scenarios.
The MIST Working Group wishes to acknowledge the contribution of their constituencies
and organisations whom provided support.