Paperless FIATA Bill of Lading

Bringing trust and security through digitalisation Start issuing paperless FIATA Bills of Lading through your everyday tools.  Save time and money while bringing trust and security to your partners.    www.efbl.fiata.org

Negotiable FIATA Multimodal Transport Bill of Lading (FBL) are now available in a paperless format through TMSs and other platforms. FIATA members and members of FIATA National Associations can easily issue secured paperless FBLs through their everyday tools. Each document is registered on an immutable ledger and can be verified at any time by all stakeholders interacting with the document. 

Key benefits 

• Save time and money - Issue electronic documents within seconds and save money by avoiding costs generated by paper documents.
• Optimise your processes - Issue paperless FBLs directly from your TMS and avoid double data entry.
• Bring trust and security - Give the possibility to your stakeholders to verify at any time: the validity of the eFBL, your identity as well as the document content integrity.
• Achieve your sustainability goals - Embrace a green solution, help saving paper and unnecessary courier services.
• Flexibility of format - Decide in which format you want to share your FBL with your stakeholders: in a paperless format (PDF) or you can always print it if needed. 

Where can I issue paperless FIATA FBLs? 

Currently the below TMSs, eBL providers & other platforms have signed the agreement to implement the Paperless FBL. If your TMS/software is not listed, please contact FIATA and we will see if we can work with your platform provider to implement the service. If you have developed your own in-house solution, you can implement the solution directly on your system, please refer to the section "FIATA paperless FBL for software providers" to find out more. 

Platform logo	Platform name	Website	Contact
	AKANEA	akanea.com/en/	https://akanea.com/contact/
	Cargowise	www.cargowise.com	https://www.cargowise.com/contact/
	Cargo X	cargox.io	[email protected]
	edox Online	web.edoxonline.com	[email protected]
	InfoSys Tech	https://istegy.net/	Omar Ihab Email:[email protected]
	Nabu	nabu.io	[email protected]
	Riege Software	www.riege.com	[email protected]
	Usyncro	www.usyncro.com/en/	[email protected]
	Xinerji Software	https://xinerji.com/en/home/	[email protected]

How to start issuing paperless FIATA FBLs? 

• Fill-in the paperless FIATA FBL onboarding form 
• FIATA will verify that your company fulfills all conditions to issue FIATA FBLs (valid membership and valid liability insurance)
• Pay your package of paperless FIATA FBLs
• Start issuing paperless FIATA FBLs through your everyday tool

How can paperless FIATA FBLs be verified? 

Anyone interacting with the document can verify at anytime: 

• The validity of the document
• The identity of its issuer
• The integrity of its content 

To verify the document, stakeholders can simply scan the QR code (if they receive a paper document) or upload the document on our verification page. This will give them access to the document audit trail. 

Paperless FIATA FBLs for software providers 

The eFBL data standard and the dedicated API to connect to FIATA to generate secured paperless FIATA FBLs are available for free to all software providers interested to implement this new service. 

The eFBL data standard is aligned with the UN/CEFACT MMT Reference Data Model to facilitate interoperability with existing standards and the different actors of the supply chain. 

The eFBL data standard and the API technical specifications are available on our GitHub repository. 

More information

Check our dedicated website for more information: www.efbl.fiata.org 

Contact FIATA for any questions: [email protected]