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Valenciaport and COSCO to launch automated delivery of box seals

Valenciaport and Cosco Shipping Lines Spain have entered into a collaboration to provide, through a dispensing machine, the container seals to the carriers before going to the exporters’ facilities.

This initiative, which was developed in the Working Groups of the Guarantee Mark, aims to speed up the container export process, by giving the seals to the drivers in the port area.

In particular, this system bypasses to go to the administrative offices of the shipping agents that usually provide the seals, whose location can be kilometres away from the collection points of the empty containers.

In addition, the use of a mechanical device was proposed to be connected to the Valenciaport port community system (PCS) and, hence, to allow the automated dispatch of seals, in order to meet the requirements of “control, information processing, traceability and security required by the agents involved in this process,” said a port official.

The project has enabled the installation of a seal dispensing machine in the land transport service area, located at the south exit of the port of Valencia.

It is currently in a testing phase and provides Cosco Shipping Lines seals to authorised transport companies, after entering the corresponding ValenciaportPCS transport order locator.

The development of this initiative to provide seals in an automated way is expected to reduce economic costs and the time spent in this process.  It is also projected to reduce the generation of emissions derived from travelling to the offices, where the seals were delivered.

Left to right: José Boix, BPS, manager of Information Service Division and branch comanager of COSCO Shipping Lines; Pedro Pérez, from the BPS & Quality Section of COSCO Shipping Lines; Néstor Martínez, head of Commercial and Technological Development APV.




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