VESDEP Vessel departure
Joint Transport Group (JM4)
A message from a stevedore to a liner agent informing the latter party of the closing of a vessel's file and giving information on the actual container operations.
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
- 0010Message headerMandatoryMax 1
To head, identify and specify a message.
- 0020Beginning of messageMandatoryMax 1
To indicate the type and function of a message and to transmit the identifying number.
- 0030ReferenceConditionalMax 9
To specify a reference.
- Segment group 1Repeat 9
- 0050Name and addressMandatoryMax 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.
- 0060Contact informationConditionalMax 9
To identify a person or a department to whom communication should be directed.
- 0050Name and addressMandatoryMax 1
- Segment group 2Repeat 1
- 0080Details of transportMandatoryMax 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.
- 0090ReferenceConditionalMax 9
To specify a reference.
- 0100Date/time/periodConditionalMax 9
To specify date, and/or time, or period.
- 0080Details of transportMandatoryMax 1
- Segment group 3Repeat 9
- 0120QuantityMandatoryMax 1
To specify a pertinent quantity.
- 0130Free textConditionalMax 1
To provide free form or coded text information.
- 0120QuantityMandatoryMax 1
- 0140Message trailerMandatoryMax 1
To end and check the completeness of a message.