30 January
2025
On January 29, a regional capacity-building workshop was held in Chisinau, Moldova on the topic: “Digital transformation of multimodal data and document exchange in Moldova and Ukraine for compliance with European Union requirements using UN standards and reference data models.”
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) organized this event together with the Government and business community of Moldova as a hybrid capacity-building workshop under the 14th tranche of the United Nations Development Account project “Enhancing the capacity of individual countries in the UNECE region for pandemic-resilient sustainable cross-border trade and transport.”
This is the seventeenth UNECE regional workshop on trade facilitation, single windows and data, originally organized in neighboring Odessa, with the participation of the Transport Community, TRACECA and other partners this year.
The overall concept is to facilitate a standardized, seamless digital flow of cargo information along trade and transport corridors passing through Moldova and Ukraine using the standards and the Multimodal Transport Reference Model (MMT RDM) of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) as a common semantic IT framework.
In 2020-2022, UNECE developed a package of standards for multimodal data exchange, covering key consignment notes and bills of lading and supplementary documents for the main modes of transport. The package contains business requirements specifications and supporting datasets, data structures, code lists and XSD schemas from which XML, JSON, APIs and other technology tools can be derived. Pilot projects have been launched, including the digitalization and transformation of the railway consignment note along the Trans-Caspian Corridor. A best practice example of using UN/CEFACT standards is the implementation of the EU Electronic Freight Transport Information (eFTI) Regulation and the EU Maritime Single Window.
The aim of this workshop is to make freight data exchange between transport modes and UNECE subregions interoperable using global standards.
The objectives of this seminar are to present to a specialized audience from Moldova and Ukraine the concept of digital transformation of multimodal data and document exchange within the cross-border supply chain (digital corridor) using the UN semantic standards and MMT RDM, highlight the possibilities of implementing the UN/CEFACT and MMT RDM standards for the application of the EU Regulation on electronic freight transport information (eFTI) and the EU, the maritime environmental regulation of the “Single Window” using UN/CEFACT, standards for ensuring multimodal interoperability, link the digital transformation of cargo information exchange in Moldova and Ukraine to broader initiatives: implementation of the EU eFTI Regulation thus promoting the European integration of Moldova and Ukraine; harmonization of data exchange with the Trans-Caspian Corridor, including the project for the digital transformation of railway consignment notes.
Oleg Platonov, First Vice-President of ICC Ukraine, President of the Association “UKRZOVNISHTRANS”, also delivered a welcoming speech.