Container transport operations need a complete management of the lifecycle of container weight requests in order to comply with the Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) from International Maritime Organization (IMO). The shipper became the responsible for obtaining the Verified Gross Mass (VGM) of a full container and communicating it to the shipping company, with a VGM certificate.
Overview of the VGM example stemming
from DATAPORTS
In this regard the DataPorts
platform offers an effective solution
to allow containers to arrive at the port with
the verified gross weight, reducing
last minute incidents
or delays at container terminals or the appearance of congestion situations. The solution provides more added value
than existing solutions by having a verifiable and immutable information on
shared data through the entire chain to all concerned business participants
serving as a source of truth and providing transparency and non-repudiation
process. The VGM Blockchain implemented
at the Port of Valencia serves as a single source of truth and providing
transparency and non- repudiation process, assuring that the weight cannot be altered at any point in the process.
The components of the VGM and the dashboard facilitating the request can be
seen in both figures.
Implemented dashboard
example for VGM requests