This offers many interesting possibilities for receiving the final digital B/L which is then archived automatically in the forwarder’s digital file.

Electronic booking

• The customer sends a transport request to the forwarder, who updates it in his file and sends an EDI booking request to the web portal (1, 2, 3).
• Once the necessary checks have been done (4, 5 and if applicable 6), the web portal sends the booking request to the shipping company, which then confirms or rejects it (8).
• A confirmation message is sent from the web portal to the forwarder (9).
• This message is automatically processed in TRIS Forwarding and updated with the following data: booking number, name of ship, ship’s route, ETD, ETA, pick-up & drop-off location, PIN code etc. (10). The forwarder then confirms the booking (11) with his customer.

EDI B/L

• Once the ship has been loaded, the forwarder sends the updated B/L instructions to the web portal (2, 3).
• Once the necessary checks have been done (4, 5 and if applicable 6), the web portal sends the booking request to the shipping company, which then processes the data into a draft B/L (8).
• The draft B/L is sent from the web portal (9) to the forwarder, who either:

• (12) makes corrections to it and begins communication steps 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 once more
• or (16) confirms the draft directly to the shipping company.

• The shipping company (17) then sends the final B/L to the forwarder (18) who in turn sends it to the customer (19).

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