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Party Code List Providers

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Purpose and Scope

The DCSA Party Code List Providers list identifies authoritative or mutually recognized organizations that maintain code lists used to identify business parties unambiguously in digital shipping and trade transactions.

This list is intended for use in DCSA API specifications, EDI messages, and digital documentation to support consistent and interoperable identification of organizations across the transport and trade ecosystem.

These providers include:

  • Standards bodies (e.g., DCSA, SMDG, NMFTA, W3C)

  • eBL and trade platforms (e.g., Bolero, CargoX, Wave)

  • Data and registry providers (e.g., Dun & Bradstreet, GLEIF)

  • Regulators (e.g., FMC)

  • Technology and trade network operators (e.g., GSBN, WiseTech)

Party Code Structure

Each party is identified using a combination of:

  • partyCode: the identifier assigned to the party by the respective provider

  • codeListProvider: the code representing the provider of that identifier

In some cases it is necessary to specify which list is being referred to - for this purpose the codeListName can be used.

  • codeListName: name of the code list in which the codeListProvider defines the partyCode

Example

{
  "partyCode": "MAEU",
  "codeListName": "SCAC",
  "codeListProvider": "NMFTA"
}

{
  "partyCode": "98450064A51E0A3DDE93",
  "codeListName": "LEI",
  "codeListProvider": "GLEIF"
}

Data Elements

  • partyCode (string, max length 150): code identifying the party as defined by the selected code list provider

  • codeListProvider (string, max length 100): code of the provider defining the party code, such as SMDG, DCSA, GLEIF, NMFTA, or ZZZ

  • codeListName (string, max length 100): name of the code list in which the provider defines the partyCode, such as SCAC, LEI, DUNS, or DID

Released Versions

Maintained in the DCSA Information Model repository.