COPARN Container announcement

Joint Transport Group (JM4)

The message contains an order to release, to make available, to accept or to call down containers or to announce the impending arrival of containers.

This message is part of a total set of container-related messages. These messages serve to facilitate the intermodal handling of containers by streamlining the information exchange. The business scenario for the container messages is clarified in a separate document, called: 'Guide to the scenario of EDIFACT container messages'.

Header

Position
Segment
Name
Max use
  1. To head, identify and specify a message.

  2. To indicate the type and function of a message and to transmit the identifying number.

  3. To specify operational transport movement details for a goods item or equipment (which may differ from the contractual conditions).

  4. To specify the contract and carriage conditions and service and priority requirements for the transport.

  5. To provide free form or coded text information.

  6. To specify a reference.

  7. Segment group 1
    Repeat 9
    1. To specify the transport details such as mode of transport, means of transport, its conveyance reference number and the identification of the means of transport. The segment may be pointed to by the TPL segment.

    2. To specify a reference.

    3. To identify a country/place/location/related location one/related location two.

    4. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

  8. Segment group 2
    Repeat 9
    1. To specify the name/address and their related function, either by CO82 only and/or unstructured by CO58 or structured by CO80 thru 3207.

    2. To identify a person or a department to whom communication should be directed.

    3. To specify a reference.

    4. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

  9. Segment group 3
    Repeat 999
    1. To indicate totals of a goods item.

    2. To specify handling and where necessary, notify hazards.

    3. To provide free form or coded text information.

    4. To specify a reference.

    5. To specify additional or substitutional item identification codes.

    6. Segment group 4
      Repeat 9
      1. To specify the name/address and their related function, either by CO82 only and/or unstructured by CO58 or structured by CO80 thru 3207.

      2. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

      3. To specify a reference.

    7. To specify physical measurements, including dimension tolerances, weights and counts.

    8. To specify dimensions.

    9. To identify documents, either printed, electronically transferred, or referenced as specified in message description, including, where relevant, the identification of the type of transaction that will result from this message.

    10. Segment group 5
      Repeat 999
      1. To specify the placement of goods in relation to equipment.

      2. To specify physical measurements, including dimension tolerances, weights and counts.

    11. Segment group 6
      Repeat 9
      1. To identify dangerous goods.

      2. To provide free form or coded text information.

      3. To specify physical measurements, including dimension tolerances, weights and counts.

  10. Segment group 7
    Repeat 999
    1. To identify a unit of equipment.

    2. To specify a reference.

    3. To specify the number of units.

    4. To specify operational transport movement details for a goods item or equipment (which may differ from the contractual conditions).

    5. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

    6. To specify the contract and carriage conditions and service and priority requirements for the transport.

    7. To identify a country/place/location/related location one/related location two.

    8. To specify physical measurements, including dimension tolerances, weights and counts.

    9. To specify dimensions.

    10. To specify the temperature setting.

    11. To identify a range.

    12. To specify a seal number related to equipment.

    13. To provide free form or coded text information.

    14. To identify dangerous goods.

    15. To specify a monetary amount.

    16. To indicate the requirement for a specific govermental action and/or procedure or which specific procedure is valid for a specific part of the transport.

    17. To specify attached or related equipment.

    18. Segment group 8
      Repeat 9
      1. To specify damage including action taken.

      2. To provide component details of an object (e.g. product, container) such as its type and the material of which it is composed.

    19. Segment group 9
      Repeat 9
      1. To specify the transport details such as mode of transport, means of transport, its conveyance reference number and the identification of the means of transport. The segment may be pointed to by the TPL segment.

      2. To identify a country/place/location/related location one/related location two.

      3. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

    20. Segment group 10
      Repeat 9
      1. To specify the name/address and their related function, either by CO82 only and/or unstructured by CO58 or structured by CO80 thru 3207.

      2. To specify date, and/or time, or period.

      3. To identify a person or a department to whom communication should be directed.

      4. To identify a communication number of a department or a person to whom communication should be directed.

  11. To provide control total.

  12. To end and check the completeness of a message.

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