NEAL-NET Facilitates Logistics

Information Sharing in Maritime Silk

Road Initiative

Wu Yizhou
National Transport & Logistics Public Information Platform (LOGINK)
Ministry of Transport, China
2015.12.15 Port Klang, Malaysia
What is LOGINK

National Transport & Logistics Public Information Platform (LOGINK), is

an open , public and sharing Logistics Information Exchange Network,
which is financed by Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China &
The People’s Government of Zhejiang Province. Road Transportation
Administration Bureau of Zhejiang Province established LOGINK managed
center to construct and promote LOGINK, and participated the construction of
Northeast Asia Logistics Information Service Network (NEAL-NET) on behalf of
China MOT.

www.logink.org
Missions of LOGINK

– To establish China logistics information standard system.

– To construct logistics information resource directory and basic
information interchange system based on LOGINK standards, all
cost will be covered by government.
– To develop one-stop portal connected with global logistics
information systems.
– To provide value added service based on data mining and data
fusion supported by 3rd party.
 It is a regional cooperation
mechanism to promote logistics
information sharing on the basis of
the mechanism of China-Japan-
Korea Ministerial Conference on
Transport and Logistics

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 • Background
• System Design
CONTENT • Progress
• Future Plan
Background
Background

 The total aggregated GDP of the Peoples‘ Republic of China, Japan and the Republic
of Korea is approximately 20% of the world and 70% of Asia economy.
 Foreign trade and foreign investment of three Countries are both 20% of the world.
Trade between the three countries amounted to $689 billion in 2014.
 The container through put of the three Countries accounts for 33% of the world total.
The container through put between the three Countries accounts for 1.3% of the world.

Northeast Asia is one of

the centers of the world
NEAL-NET economic activities.
 Background

Inefficient Logistics Information Interchanging & Sharing Service

Country A Country B

Shipper Logistics
company

Exporter Forwarder , TOS Shipping TOS Forwarder , Importer

warehouse etc （container companies’ （container warehouse etc
terminal: system terminal:
Port） Port）
Background

Information Sharing Barrier among International Trade Players

Becomes Bottleneck in Logistics Process
Visible Invisible from Consigner and Consignee’s view
Road Exp Exp Marine Imp Imp
Consigner Distribution Consignee
Transport Customs Port Transport Port Customs
Background

In order solve issues above, China, Korea, Japan government

signed MOU to found Northeast Asia Logistics Information
Service Network (NEAL-NET)

China-Japan-Korea establishes NEAL-NET cooperative mechanism to

establish sharing network, define logistics information sharing standard
and promote to establish logistics information sharing structure.

Objective of NEAL-NET:
1. To interconnect logistics information systems of China, Japan and Korea.
2. To encourage researches on logistics information standards technologies.
3. To promote technological exchange, training popularization of logistics information
systems.
NEAL-NET Organization
Joint Steering
Committee

Rotating Chair

Council Members Liaison Officers

Rotating Vice Council

Council Chair Chairs

Council Network
Members Secretariat Members

Deputy Secretary-
Secretary-general
generals

Secretaries
Background

 On 2008, the 2nd Japan-China-Korea Ministerial Conference on Maritime Transport

and Logistics was held in Japan, decided to set up a working group to carry out
researches on the interconnection of logistics information.
 On 2 December 2010, the vice ministers from the Transport Logistics Ministries of The
Three Countries jointly signed the Cooperative Mechanism in Hangzhou, China
officially launched NEAL-NET. On the following day, the 1st Council Meeting of NEAL-
NET was held.
“Welcomed the progress made by the three
countries in developing sea-land combined
transportation and establishing the Northeast
Asia Logistics Information Service Network and
encouraged the logistics information sharing
technology research and expedited service
application and the expansion of the network”.
-The 5th CJK Leaders Summit announced
declaration
Big Event

The Inaugural Ceremony of the Northeast Asia

Logistics Information Service Network
(Dec. 2010)

Opening ceremony of NEAL-NET Logistics

Information Sharing Interface
(Dec.2011)

Opening the container status information

sharing
(Nov. 2013)
System Design
Task

– NEAL-NET itself doesn’t generate any logistics information. The main task of NEAL-
NET is to define the interface standards of each public logistics nodes. And then
promote the logistics nodes to rebuild their interfaces in accordance with these
standards to realize cross nodes data sharing
Scope

• At current stage, NEAL-NET cooperation mainly focuses on International Marine

Container Transport.
Railway
Aviation
Surface
Marine Container Transport
Road transport Marine Road transport
Container Container
Terminal Terminal

Warehouse/ Warehouse/
Plant Plant

NEAL-NET Working Phases

Standard

NEAL-NET Standard

– NEAL-NET’s logistics information sharing

standards including data elements, code sets and Web
interface format. It is called NEAL-NET Standards. service
– NEAL-NET Standards adopt a framework which is
suitable for status sharing.
NEAL-Net
– Interface using Web Service and SOAP message
for data transmission.
EPCIS
 How to define the NEAL-NET Standard
Step 1
Road Railway
Port Airport Define public logistics nodes
freight terminals freight terminals

Step 2
Container Container
ETA ATA Unloading Cy-Open Cy-Cut Loading ATD
Departure Entering

Define events in each node

Step 3
Step 4
Ca l l s i gn ABCEF

eventTi me YYYYMMDDhhmmss
Step 5
#Ves s el Na me Hyunda i Fa i th

#Voya geNumber Import Voya ge

Decide
#IMONumber IMO9295218

#Shi ppi ngCompa nyCode HMMC

#Es ti ma tedTi meOfArri va l

#Es ti ma tedTi meofBerthi ng

YYYYMMDDhhmmss

YYYYMMDDhhmmss
the
#Es ti ma tedTi meofDepa rture -
interface
#CyOpenDa teTi me YYYYMMDDhhmmss

#CyCutDa teTi me YYYYMMDDhhmmss format

#La s tPortCode KRPUS

#NextPortCode JPTYO

#Cours eLi ne CN-JP

Define data items in each event Define the data dictionary of

each information item.
 Port Logistics Information Sharing

Dynamic Vessel Status and Container Status Sharing Standard

– First step, dynamic container vessel status sharing interface will be defined
– 9 basic events of dynamic vessel schedule and container status are abstracted and
technical framework is designed.
• vessel properties: ETA, ATA,CY-Open, CY-Cut and ATD
• container properties: Unloading, Container Gate Out, Container Gate In, Loading

Import Voyage Export Voyage

Events Container Container

ETA ATA Unloading
Departure
CY-Open Entering
CY-Cut Loading ATD

Vessel Vessel Vessel

Vessel Property
Property Property Property

Container Container
Container Property Property Property
Container Vessel Status Sharing Service

船名 航次 IMO号 船舶状态
Vessel Name Voyage Number IMO Number Vessel Status

状态发生时间 状态记录时间 状态发生地点

Status Occurred Time Status Recorded Time Status Occurred Location

预计抵港时间 预计靠岸时间 预计离港时间

ETA ETB ETD

进箱开始时间 进箱截止时间 上一港口 下一港口 航线代码

CyOpen Time CyCut Time Previous Port Next Port Course Line
Container Status Sharing Service

Container
Number

Voyage Container
IMO Number Bill Of Lading Number
Number Status

Status Occurred Time Status Recorded Time Status Occurred Location

Container Container Container

Container Container Vehicle License
Operator Gross Seal
Size Type Loading Status Plate Number
Code Weight Number
The Three Countries had finished dynamic
container vessel status query and container
status information sharing by using unified
standard(NEAL-NET Standard) among pilot ports.
 11 4 3
CJK 18 ports had finished interface rebuilding of
dynamic container vessel status standard
4 Ports in China, 4 Ports in Japan and 3 Ports in Korea
had rebuilded interface of container status to achieve
the sharing of container status information.
NEAL-NET Port Logistics Information Sharing Service coverage

• China
Num. Port Container Vessel Status Container Status
1 Yingkou Port Yes
2 Yantai Port Yes Yes
3 Weihai Port Yes
4 Qingdao Port Yes
5 Rizhao Port Yes
6 Tianjin Port Yes
7 Lianyungang Port Yes Yes
8 Wenzhou Port Yes Yes
9 Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Yes Yes
10 Shekou Port Yes
11 Dalian Port Yes Yes
NEAL-NET Port Logistics Information Sharing Service coverage

• Japan
Num. Port Container Vessel Status Container Status
1 Tokyo-Yokohama Yes Yes
2 Kawasaki Yes Yes
3 Kobe Yes Yes
4 Osaka Yes Yes

• Korea
Num. Port Container Vessel Status Container Status
1 Busan Yes Yes
2 Incheon Yes Yes
3 Gwangyang Yes Yes
Benefits

High Information Security Accuracy and Timeliness of Data

1.Each service provider and each
country can have full control of their 1.Record based search guarantees
service, without data ownership issue that hit information is accurate and
2.Authentication and access privilege fresh
can be controlled easily

Unified and Extensible Data Format Convenience for Ender User

1.Unified data format support easy
service integration 1.Since the interface of each node was
2.Extensible data architecture support unified, users don’t have to reform
flexible extension to other business interface again and again
area
Progress
NEAL-NET in process

– Administrator Guideline
– Korea(SP-IDC) , Japan(COLINS) and China(LOGINK)
are developing helpdesk for all service providers.
– CJK will discuss in detail and confirm the final version
of administrator guideline at the next technical meeting.

– Push Service
– CJK will continue to review and investigate technical
solution for push service and continue discussion in
next technical meeting.
NEAL-NET in process

– Service Port Expansion

– Korea side plans to finish development for Ulsan,
Pyeongtaek ports by the end of 2015 and go-live in 2016.
– China side plans to open Shaoxing, Jiaxing ports and will
start negotiation for implementing Qinzhou, Shekou and
other ports in 2016.
– Japan side got positive response from Yokkaichi, Niigata
ports for joining NEAL-NET service and is under negotiation.
NEAL-NET in process

– New Standards Definition

– Proposal of 2 standards of Customs Clearance Status and
Container Yards Status which has been completed by
China side
– Japan side will prepare new events (Inspection Event,
Condition Delivery Order) into Customs Clearance Status
Service & (Permission of Delivery Container from CY
event) into Container Status Service master spread sheets.
– Korea side will discuss about the above new events with
domestic service provider such as Customs and Inspection
authorities.
For Maritime Silk Road Initiative Through
Malaysia
 Recently: Finish the three countries coverage
 Middle phase: Expand to EU and ASEAN countries
 Long Tem: Expand to North America and other Regions
For future works on logistics information sharing

– China Ministry of Transport proposes to realize information

sharing among member ports by using NEAL-NET standards
and cooperation mechanism
– LOGINK and NEAL-NET could provide necessary technical
supports
– MOT of China could also provide necessary funding
support on future cooperation
– Next NEAL-NET technical meeting will be held at Tokyo,
Japan on late Feb,2016. Sincerely invite member ports’
business and technical experts to join the meeting and discuss
future cooperation issues
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Northeast Asia Logistics Information Service Network
WU Yizhou
Mobile:+86-18667135121 Email: [email protected]