The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) has welcomed WiseTech Global into its DCSA+ partnership programme, aiming to accelerate the adoption of open digital standards across the container shipping industry.
Announced on 19 May in Amsterdam, the partnership brings together one of the world’s largest logistics software providers with the organisation leading standardisation efforts in container shipping digitalisation.
WiseTech Global develops logistics execution and supply chain technology solutions, including CargoWise and e2open. Its platforms are used by 46 of the top 50 global third-party logistics providers and 23 of the world’s 25 largest freight forwarders. The company plays a central role in global container supply chains by supporting workflows, documentation, compliance procedures and financial processes across cargo movements.
Through its participation in DCSA+, WiseTech aims to support wider adoption of standardised integrations and interoperable digital systems across the shipping sector.
Container shipping operations currently depend on multiple stakeholders, including shippers, freight forwarders, ports, carriers, customs authorities and consignees. Industry data often moves through fragmented systems, manual workflows and customised integrations, creating inefficiencies, delays and additional costs.
DCSA’s standards are designed to address these challenges by introducing common data models and open APIs across core shipping functions, including bookings, bills of lading, shipment instructions, track and trace services, vessel schedules, customs documentation and freight invoicing.
The DCSA+ programme extends collaboration beyond ocean carriers to include technology providers, cargo owners, terminals, feeders and freight forwarders. Partners gain early access to emerging standards and can contribute directly to their development and implementation.
WiseTech has been working with DCSA standards since 2019 and has become one of the largest users of DCSA-based carrier APIs globally. The company’s experience across hundreds of carrier and forwarder integrations is expected to contribute practical operational insight to future standards development.
Ashley Skaanild, Principal Advisor Carrier Integration and Transformation at WiseTech Global, said: “Managing and monitoring logistics flows across the globe relies on clean and complete data. Standardised integrations help our customers and their carrier partners to achieve their goals faster and more effectively by removing friction at critical data handover points.
“As one of the earliest adopters of the DCSA standards in 2019, WiseTech extensively uses carrier Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) based on the DCSA standards. We are delighted to formalize our relationship by joining DCSA+ and to continue to work together to create open, interoperable standards that power seamless, end-to-end digitalization across container shipping.”
Mariana Bock-Losada, Chief Growth Officer at DCSA, added: “Standards create value through widespread adoption, and welcoming WiseTech into DCSA+ is an exciting step forward on this front.
“A company of this scale and this committed to our standards sitting closer to how they are shaped sharpens our insight into what works in the ecosystem and extends the reach of every standard we publish. We are delighted to have them with us.”
