Kale Logistics Solutions (Kale) said it has collaborated with TIFFA EDI Services to provide the CODEX Electronic Delivery Order (e-DO) service to the Mediterranean Shipping Company (Thailand) to digitally enable all its stakeholders.    

CODEX e-DO services enable freight forwarders, shipping lines, custom brokers, importers, and terminal operators to exchange and receive delivery order documents digitally instead of in paper form.

Thailand expansion

It also allows multiple stakeholders to perform their business activities through a digital interface — minimizing data entry, with most steps automated, from request to issue of the delivery order.

Kale said the new contract with TIFFA and MSC (Thailand), the world's second largest container shipping line, was signed on November 15 and will serve to strengthen Kale’s foothold in Thailand.

“Kale has a long lasting relationship with Thailand and the stakeholders here. We have a major role to play in the digitisation drive in air cargo, as well as the maritime sector," said Vineet Malhotra, director of Kale Logistics Solutions.

Kale noted that the CODEX e-DO will digitalise and streamline all business processes in goods exchange for MSC (Thailand), increasing the efficiency of document management and enabling work from anywhere.

When the terminal releases the cargo in their application, the e-DO automatically updates through Web API, with electronic goods release certificates and status updates available 24 hours a day.

It also increases security, by facilitating paperless operations and minimises the risk of viral transmission and the spread of Covid by reducing physical contact between personnel and manual handling of documents.

Suwit Ratanachinda, chairman of TIFFA EDI Services, said, "we are offering this solution to ease the challenging situation of risk posed by COVID-19 for all stakeholders. The old-style Delivery Orders (DO) process, which takes time and paper-intensive operations, is prone to errors and increased the spread of the virus through document exchange."

"The initiative of the e-DO service is to facilitate ease of doing business for freight forwarders, shipping lines, transporters, terminal operators and port authorities," he added.