EANCOM® 2002 S4 Part II IFTMBC Booking confirmation message

Status

Definition

A message from a carrier or forwarder, to the consignor booking services, providing confirmation of a booking for a specified consignment. A confirmation may indicate that the booking of a consignment is accepted, pending, conditionally accepted or rejected.

The conditions under which requested services will take place may be given in this message.

Principles

The message is a single consignment message which can be used by all modes of transport for the forwarding and transport of goods from any origin to any destination, regardless of route or prevailing commercial practice.

The message can be used whenever a confirmation of the booking of a consignment is deemed necessary as an answer to a firm booking message for a specific consignment.

When the message is used to confirm that the complete booking is accepted or pending then only the header information should be sent.

Only when a booking is not accepted the detail section of the message may be resent to indicate the cause for non-acceptance of the goods items detailed.

In addition to the main principles detailed above, a number of general principles also apply;

• A consignment may contain several goods items.
• A consignment is identified by a consignors reference number (code CU) qualified in the RFF segment.
• Goods items may or may not be containerised.
• Goods items may be transported in one or more containers, and a single container may contain one or more goods items.
• One goods item may be related to one or more customs tariff codes.
• Goods items related to one customs tariff code may be carried in one or more containers.
• Pre-carriage (advanced haulage) and/or on-carriage (destination haulage) of the consignment may take place in different steps, each step specified with its own transport details group.
• Transport devices, which have the ability of powered movement on their own, are specified in the transport details group. Other load or transport devices are specified as equipment.
• Packaging for goods items can be expressed at up to three levels.
• A goods item consists of one or more despatch units that adhere to the same package type and goods description.
• A despatch unit is the unit of cargo that will be handled and to which an SSCC can be affixed.

A number of generic transport terms are used in this specification, to be described as:

CONSIGNEE
the organisation (party) which has the intention to receive the goods.

CONSIGNOR
the party ordering transport, orders a carrier to collect goods for transportation.

CONSIGNMENT
a collection of goods items to be transported from one or many despatch locations to one or many delivery locations. (synonym: shipment).

CARRIER
the party contracted by the consignor or forwarder to transport goods.

DESPATCH LOCATION
the physical location from which goods for transport are shipped.

DELIVERY LOCATION
the physical location to which goods for transport are finally delivered.

EQUIPMENT
material resources necessary to facilitate the transport and handling of cargo. Transport equipment does under the given circumstances not have the ability to move by its own propulsion (e.g. sea container, trailer, unit load device, pallet).

FORWARDER
the party contracted by the consignor to arrange to have the goods transported.

GOODS ITEM
a collection of products normally grouped together for transport purposes, e.g. 12 pallets of foodstuffs.

LINE ITEM
a specific product identified and defined for trade purposes, e.g. a case of flour containing 24 packets of 250 grams.

MODE OF TRANSPORT
the method of transport used for the conveyance of goods or persons, e.g. by rail, by road, by sea.

MEANS OF TRANSPORT
the vehicle used for the transport of goods or persons, e.g. aircraft, truck, vessel.

PLACE OF ACCEPTANCE
the place at which the responsibility of the carrier starts.

PLACE OF DELIVERY
the place at which the responsibility of the carrier ends.

TYPE OF MEANS OF TRANSPORT
the type of vehicle used in the transport process, e.g. wide body, tank truck, passenger vessel.

TYPE OF EQUIPMENT
the type of material used, e.g. 40 feet container, four way pallet, mafi trailer.