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APPENDIX SEA CARGO ATTRIBUTES


MESSAGES - BUSINESS SPECIFIC FORMAT FOR ORIGINAL AND CHANGE

The following table models the Business Specific Format (BSF) of the Sea Cargo Report Document where the document is considered an 'ORIGINAL' or a 'CHANGE'. The table defines the attributes that make up this document and details their structure within the SCR document.

Table - Business Specific Format of the Sea Cargo Report Document
Business Term	ICS Business Requirement	Business Length	Possible Number of Repeats	ICS Business Rule
Document Details
Document Name	Mandatory	an..35	1	1. = 'SCR'
Sender Reference	Mandatory	an..35	1
Sender Reference Version	Mandatory	n..3	1
Owner Site ID	Mandatory	an10
Transaction Type	Mandatory	an1	1	2. o - original c - change
Sea Cargo Report Header Line
Vessel Identifier	Mandatory	an..8	1
Voyage Number	Mandatory	an..6	1
Port of Destination	Mandatory	an5	1
Port of Discharge	Mandatory	an5	1
Final Australian Port	Conditional	an5	1	3. If the Cargo Report nominates destination and discharge Ports as overseas (Transit Cargo), this field must be supplied.
Principal Agent Id	Mandatory	an11	1
Original Port of Loading	Mandatory	an5	1
Country of Origin of Goods	Mandatory	a2	1
Responsible Party Client ID	Mandatory	an11	1
House Bill of Lading	Optional	an..35	1
Ocean Bill of Lading	Mandatory	an..35	1
Parent Bill of Lading	Optional	an..35	1
Bill of Lading Origin	Mandatory	an5	1
Method of Payment	Mandatory	an,,3	1
Overseas Routing Port	Optional	an5	9
Freight Forwarder Indicator	Optional	an1	1
Sea Cargo Report Client Information
Consignee Name (unstructured)	Conditional	an..35	2	4. Must be blank if data in any of Consignee Name, Consignee Street and Number, Consignee City, Consignee Post Code, Consignee Country 5. Either of the first 2 lines must contain at least 1 character and that these two lines do not contain only numbers.