Overview
ISO 23355:2024 - Visibility data interchange among logistics information service providers - defines a standardized framework, message set and data elements to enable interoperable logistics visibility across regions and transport modes. Applicable to maritime, road, air and rail import/export transportation, the standard helps logistics information service providers (LISPs) exchange event-based visibility data for transport means and goods management using APIs and defined interchange messages.
Key topics and technical requirements
- Scope and purpose
- Specifies logistics visibility data, data elements, interchange messages and the LISP interconnection framework for regional and inter‑regional data interchange.
- Framework of LISP interconnection
- Distinguishes regional (single LISP with connected data providers/users) and inter‑regional (multiple LISPs interconnected via APIs) models.
- Defines classification of parties: LISP, data providers (e.g., carriers, terminals, single window), and data users.
- Core features required
- Openness, confidentiality, systematicness (API-based authentication and query), distribution, convenience, effectiveness, and inter-region visibility.
- Visibility data model
- Event-driven visibility aligned to import/export processes (10 import events, 9 export events) across maritime, air, rail and road modes.
- Covers event types such as transport means forecast and actual information, arrival reports, tally, goods loading, and transport/goods release.
- Message and data element specifications
- Defines message content attributes, character representation, occurrence rules and a comprehensive data element compilation table to ensure consistent interchange.
- Interchange mechanics
- Emphasizes API-based connections between LISPs and distributed data replication for cross-border visibility.
Practical applications and users
- Who uses it
- Logistics information service providers (LISPs), port community systems (PCS), cargo community systems (CCS), maritime carriers, freight forwarders, terminal operators, single windows, customs and logistics authorities.
- Business value
- Enables real‑time, trusted cross‑border tracking and traceability of shipments.
- Reduces integration cost and ambiguity caused by fragmented implementations (even where legacy standards like UN/EDIFACT exist).
- Supports B2B, B2G and G2B data exchange for improved operational planning, compliance and supply‑chain visibility.
- Technical outcomes
- Standardized API interactions and message semantics that improve interoperability, automate event updates (forecast/actual/arrival/tally/load/release) and facilitate scalable inter‑regional data sharing.
Related standards and context
- Prepared by ISO/TC 154; complements existing logistics message work (organizations and vocabularies such as UN/EDIFACT, UN/CCL and WCO terminology are referenced in the logistics ecosystem).
