VESDEP Vessel departure
Joint Transport Group (JM4)
A message from a stevedore to a liner agent or from a liner agent to a local authority (e.g. port authority) to inform the latter party of the departure of a vessel and giving information on the actual container or cargo 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.
- 0030Date/time/periodConditionalMax 9
To specify date, and/or time, or period.
- 0040Free textConditionalMax 9
To provide free form or coded text information.
- Segment group 1Repeat 9
- 0060ReferenceMandatoryMax 1
To specify a reference.
- 0070Date/time/periodConditionalMax 9
To specify date, and/or time, or period.
- 0060ReferenceMandatoryMax 1
- Segment group 2Repeat 9
- 0090Name 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.
- Segment group 3Repeat 9
- 0110Contact informationMandatoryMax 1
To identify a person or a department to whom communication should be directed.
- 0120Communication contactConditionalMax 9
To identify a communication number of a department or a person to whom communication should be directed.
- 0110Contact informationMandatoryMax 1
- 0090Name and addressMandatoryMax 1
- Segment group 4Repeat 1
- 0140Details 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.
- 0150ReferenceConditionalMax 9
To specify a reference.
- 0160Place/location identificationConditionalMax 9
To identify a place or a location and/or related locations.
- 0170Date/time/periodConditionalMax 9
To specify date, and/or time, or period.
- 0180MeasurementsConditionalMax 9
To specify physical measurements, including dimension tolerances, weights and counts.
- 0140Details of transportMandatoryMax 1
- Segment group 5Repeat 9
- 0200QuantityMandatoryMax 1
To specify a pertinent quantity.
- 0210Free textConditionalMax 1
To provide free form or coded text information.
- 0200QuantityMandatoryMax 1
- 0220Message trailerMandatoryMax 1
To end and check the completeness of a message.