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Who is PROTECT (little bit history)
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Why the association has been founded
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Their role towards UN
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Relation to EPCSA
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Message format and their global use by Port Authorites.
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Stressing their EU wide port authority and EMSA support
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Association that covers the interest for port authorities by using standard and harmonized messages in information exchange between Business and Port Authorities
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Established in 1992 by 6 major ports in North West Europe
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Once started in EU-project, now globally seen as important association
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Official UN maintenance / user group for BERMAN, IFTDGN
(IMO-FAL 1 & 7) and WASDIS (Waste disposal) messages and implementation guides.
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Strongly related to SMDG (container related messages)
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Established relations to EMSA, ESPO
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Harmonise and optimise electronic information exchange (EDI) by means of standardised formal (legally required) messages in ports.
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For B2G: ship (agent, liner) to Port Authority (Harbour Master)
• Ship movements, navigation
• Dangerous cargo
• Waste
• Port security information
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Improve data quality by linking up with industry standards and conform with business arrangements
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Port Authorities:
• local competent authority where legally required notifications are sent to and who actually works with the data of the notifications
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Port Community Systems:
• facilitators of information flows in ports: B2B, B2G
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Port Authorities
• Port Authority of Antwerp
• Port Authority of Bremen
• Port Authority of Felixstowe
• Port Authority of Hamburg
• Port Authority of Le Havre
• Port Authority of London
• Port Authority of Amsterdam
• Port Authority of Rotterdam
• Groningen SeaPorts (Port of
Delfzijl)
• Port Authority of Bilbao
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Port Community Systems
• APCS
• DBH
• MCP
• DAKOSY
• SOGET
• CNS
• Portbase
• Associated member SMDG
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Has established a world-wide recognised EDI standard set of messages
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This EDI standard, called the PROTECT Guide (version 2.0, June 2004; version 1.0, January 1999) describes the exchanged messages in detail
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The first version of the PROTECT Guide (IFTDGN, version 0.5, October
1995)
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The work of this group has resulted in the completion of a universal implementation guide.
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World-wide recognized by:
• IMO/FAL: has recommended the PROTECT Guide as the EDI equivalent of the IMO FAL Form 1 (vessel notification) and IMO-FAL
7 form (Dangerous Goods Declaration).
• UN/CEFACT standardization bodies T+L / ITIGG (Message
Development group 3 for Transport, subgroup International
Transport Message Implementation Guidelines Group)
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UN / CEFACT
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Is the official intergovernmental organisation within the UN
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Purpose is to create and maintain global accepted message structures developed by specific technolology
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Such as UN-EDIFACT, UN e-docs or UN-XML
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Message definitions are done by experts
PROTECT
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Is the major expertgroup to define UN/CEFACT certified messages relating to law & regulations regarding Port Authority matters.
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Messages defined/maintained by the PROTECT group will be considered as UN certified message standard.
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Many Port authorities all over the world use Port Community
Systems as their gateway to and from the Harbour Management
System.
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Because of mutual interest of enhancing the logistic information exchange, PROTECT and EPCSA work very close together.
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The link between PROTECT and EPCSA mainly focus on the mutual interest for as well the market as the authorities in matters related to ships operation tasks in the port.
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Close cooperation between PROTECT and EPCSA leads to a balanced support towards the EU
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Globally accepted standards for use between business and Port authorites:
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Berth management message (BERMAN) – IMO FAL 1
• Complete vessel notification process from pre-arrival upto and incl. actual departure from a port.
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Waste disposal (WASDIS)
• Message to inform the port authority about wsaste on board and to be delivered upon arrival.
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Dangerous cargo information (IFTDGN) – IMO FAL 7
• Message used to inform the port authorities about dangerous and polution goods on board upon arrival and at exit from the port.
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Messages are standardized and harmonized for global use by all carriers.
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PROTECT
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Provided technical and practical expertise in the evaluation of the
EMSA NSW set up.
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Members of PROTECT and EPCSA together provided input in the data cross refence list as requested by EMSA.
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Participate strongly in the SafeSeaNet HAZMAT working group to enhance the data quality.
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