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Subject: ebMS submission of government documents
Dear TC, We have launched a pilot project to use ebMS for shipping companies to submit dangerous goods manifests. OOCL has successfully connected to the Marine Department (MD) of HKSARG through ebMS since July. Also, APL is implementing its system to connect to HKSARG. We are working with MD to extend the ebMS submission to cover other port formality documents, e.g. Pre-Arrival Notification. MD and shipping companies are using our open-source ebMS gateway called Hermes, which is available at www.freebxml.org. Besides, HKSARG is tendering a huge infrastructure project called DTTN (Digital Trade and Transportation Network) using ebMS as its reliable messaging infrastructure. The study report is available at http://www.logisticshk.gov.hk/logisticshk/board/reports001.html. The use of ebMS is quite straightforward. We have been launching a few similar G2B and B2B projects in HK. The key challenge for this kind of implementation is to design good/consistent XML Schemas for the necessary documents while we don't have existing standards to cover them. That's the reason we have produced the XML Schema Design and Management Guide. Besides, our government is thinking of launching a centralized government gateway for electronic document submission through ebMS rather than implementing ebMS department by department. We are drafting a PR about the dangerous goods declaration case as below. You may email me for more information. Regards, Thomas Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), Department of Computer Science and Information Systems (CSIS), The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is pleased to announce that Phase I of the XML Dangerous Goods Manifest Submission project is completed. Marine Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government has rolled out to production its Dangerous Goods Manifest Submission system using the open-source ebXML Message Service Handler implementation, Hermes. Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) is the first shipping company equipped to use this new submission channel. System development work for another shipping company, APL, is underway and is expected to be ready later this year. Started as a pilot project in June 2002 by CECID, the ebMS electronic submission system deploys ebXML technology to send and receive dangerous goods (DG) manifests in XML format. The computer system in OOCL can now generate DG manifests and send them to Marine Department’s computer system over a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Information re-typing and data entry errors are eliminated. The new submission system also improves the efficiency in information flow with the capability of sharing of captured data. Phase 2 of the project to enhance new features has begun. Enhanced features will allow Marine Department’s computer to send DG manifest receipt acknowledgements to the shipping company’s computer (i.e. two-way transaction). Shipping companies will also be able to submit manifest cancellation and amendment notices to Marine Department using ebMS, in addition to the current telephone and fax modes. In production use, this submission system deploys Hermes in its document transport layer. Hermes is a Message Service Handler (MSH) implementation that is in compliance with the OASIS ebXML Message Service (ebMS) V2 Standard. The submission system exploits some of Hermes’ features such as message packaging, reliable messaging, error handling, RDBMS persistent storage, SOAP, and HTTP features, to achieve reliability and security in the business document exchange process.
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