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DCSA standards (container shipping)

Information Model Logistics

A neutral, non-profit group established to further digitalisation of container shipping through technology standards. Discover more today....

Digital Container Shipping Association, from their own og:description

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This standard shows up on both sides of the house — as a data model here, and as a standard applied in API operations. Same standard, two lenses.

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SMDG codes (container terminals) Code System
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Model Details
Steward Digital Container Shipping Association
Layer Information Model
Domain Logistics
Status live
Access Not yet established
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 3/3. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
Access Not established
Assessed 17.0% of the rubric

Not enough of this standard was readable to place it in a band. That is a limit of what I could see, not a finding against the standard.

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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