Find out what Certified Pick up is, what the benefits are and how it works.
Certified Pick up is a digital platform for container release in Port of Antwerp-Bruges. It is a neutral platform that centralises container information. It thus connects the various parties involved in the import process. Container collection is identity-based. Moreover, the platform makes the entire process auditable by the relevant authorities.
Certified Pick up is mandatory for all supply chain partners involved in the release process of a container. The legal framework for this is contained in the Port Police Regulations. The platform enhances the efficiency and security of the container process and is therefore critical digital infrastructure for the port. To ensure this, it is imperative that all chain partners join.
To pick up a container from a terminal in Port of Antwerp-Bruges, you previously needed a unique PIN code. Usually, quite some time would pass between the moment the shipping company created the code and the moment the driver entered the code to pick up the container. During this period, the code was visible to various parties. These factors increased the risk of abuse.
Certified Pick up offers a more transparent, secure and efficient alternative to that process. Today, the use of the platform applies to the port area of Antwerp. The port platform of Zeebrugge will follow at a later stage.
Transparent: Certified Pick up ensures transparency on container status, with the aim of increasing operational efficiency for each player in the chain.
Safe: Certified Pick up offers a new way of handling. You collect a container based on identity instead of PIN codes. The platform makes it possible to track which parties were involved in handling the container.
Efficient: Administrative processes are much simpler, employees work in a safer way and subsequent transport can be planned better.
The Certified Pick up platform receives and processes container information. Based on that information, it generates a digital release right, and an authorised digital pick up right, which allows the container to be picked up.
The release right is generated by the shipping company, based on commercial release information. This right can be passed from one company to another.
The digital pick up right is not created until the final transport operator of the container is known. Thus, the system minimises the time between the creation of the right and the collection of the container.
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