Intelligent Ship Transport System - Overview of Standardization Activities

Abstract

This report gives a summary of the standardisation work that has been done in the ISTS-project, especially related to the development and maintenance of the IMO Compendium and the ISO 28005 standard on Electronic Port Clearance. The starting point for this work was the agreement between IMO (International Maritime Organization), WCO (World Customs Organization), ISO (International Organization for Standardization and UNECE (the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) to develop and maintain a new version of the IMO Compendium that describes the information requirements covering the IMO FAL Convention. The IMO Compendium started out with covering administrative data as defined by IMO, but it has later been extended with operational and nautical data. This as lead to more organizations from different domains being part of the same development, and therefore, improved collaboration between a large number of stakeholders involved in maritime transport, both from regulatory side, standardization side, ship, port, customs, class societies, technology providers, and several interest organizations.

Intelligent Ship Transport System - Overview of Standardization Activities