Digital Cargo Forum
Background
Founded in 2016 in Switzerland, the Digital Cargo Forum (DCF) represents service providers that are directly or indirectly involved in trade and cargo transportation industry. Roles of our supporters are: shippers, freight forwarders, financial service providers, trading companies, air, maritime, land transport companies, warehouse operators and insurance brokers.
In 2015 The EU PEMLIC consortium was temporarily put in place to send in a application for MG 6.2 under the EU Move umbrella.
Even if the consortium wasn’t rewarded the investment, the companies involved in this PEMLIC consortium decided to stay together and move forward in optimizing international logistics. With time the need for a collaborative forum to create leverage for companies to develop a solution supported by the community was strong enough for Ericsson to call for a first kick-off meeting with 50 companies. This resulted in the founding of the Digital Cargo Forum.
The need for DCF
The logistics industry is known for the many different logistics associations. Some operate locally (country level) others work global on an industry or modal level. So, why starting another one?
The logistics industry needs to work together across modes of transport and regions to create an open market and global interoperability. Who or what organization could support the industry to create such interoperability? When scanning the landscape of existing organizations, we saw unfortunately clear gaps between modes of transport and regions. We saw the need for a neutral environment to cover Multimodal Transport and Technology Transformation opportunities on a global scale.
For this purpose, we founded the Digital Cargo Forum (DCF).
Together with industry players we are filling some of the gaps and speeding up the creation of the needed standards and an open market.
What we do
The Digital Cargo Forum acts as an open-lab / factory of Proof of Concepts (PoC) for new technologies / industry solutions. Its ambition is to accelerate the digitalization of the cargo industry.
The mission of DCF is to deliver proofs of concept on specific use case through Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and not necessarily finished product.
DCF publishes the outcome of its work in the public domain and the logistics schemas is published through the ontology manager.
DCF is working in close collaboration with standard setting bodies such as IATA, IRU and IMO.
Programs
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Supporters
Our current supporters
Supporters actively contribute to the use cases through various forms:
- Provide inputs and industry requirements;
- Provide specific expertise for the development of the proofs of concept;
- Provide technical support / infrastructure to ease the development of the proofs of concept.
Participants are in the logistics and transport value chain that handle or transport freight (e.g. shippers, forwarders, ports, handlers, warehousing, carriers) but could also be: solution providers which build and deliver systems and IT solutions to the logistics and transport industry; industry association and international bodies that represent stakeholder groups, subject matter or other interests in the logistics and transport value chain;
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