DCSA: regulatory ambivalence proving a barrier for eB/Ls
The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) has admitted that electronic bills of lading (eB/Ls) will ...
While the adoption of electronic bills of lading (eB/Ls) has increased this year, there are still big wins for world trade and for the environment to be gained from a more proactive approach, according to the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA).
Electronic waybills, of which eB/Ls are a shipping subset, remain a “prisoner’s dilemma”, according to Ariaen Zimmerman, a consultant in logistics and software and former executive director of IATA’s Cargo IQ.
Although electronic air waybills (eAWBs) have seen major uptake in ...
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Theodor Strauss
September 12, 2023 at 2:03 pmWhat I do not understand is that in all the articles on eB/L’s nobody is mentioning the fact that legislation for such eB/L’s is lacking. The Hague-Visby rules do not mention them and that is why quite some years ago the Rotterdam Rules were introduced, but still not adopted.
It is time both the UN and IMO get cracking on this issue to speed up introduction of eB/L’s!