AC03 Interface for Rail orders

Enter service order: The rail service order is entered on the Services tab of an order.


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Overview tab

To create a rail service order select Service type = Rail.

Select the condition of pickup/delivery in the field Mode of transport. These describe the type of pre-/on-carriage for rail dispatch and receiving.

The following conditions are transmitted by the system automatically:

  • Railway siding transports (Delivery of the container on the waggon)

  • On truck (Combined transport via truck arranged by the customer)

  • Place to park (Container is placed/parked, no further handling)

  • Combined transport (Additional pick up/delivery in combined transport via truck by the rail service provider)

The following variants results from this:

  • AGL = Railway siding (rail station - rail station without move)
    Export: start condition 1 / destination condition 1
    Import: start condition 1 / destination condition 1

  • KV = Intermodal transport (positioning - rail station (or vice versa) is arranged completely by the rail service provider incl. positioning and handling)
    Export: start condition 4 / destination condition 1
    Import: start condition1 / destination condition 4

  • KVS = rail station - rail station with move (customer is responsible for handling at the transhipment rail station)
    Export: start condition 2 / destination condition 1
    Import: start condition 1 / destination condition 2

ATTENTION: At port side the hand over condition always is AGL!

Header data tab

Customer number at rail service provider

In order to ensure a smooth assignment of the order to the rail service provider, the customer number can be entered in the mask under the service provider address in the field Cust.no.

The entry is made automatically when the customer number is stored in the service provider address, see AC03 setup.

Terminal and Train station

If terminal and rail station are related in the basic data, the system automatically set the train station in field Train Station when entering a terminal.

Goods tab

One container can be sent per order.

  • Exception: If addresses and dates are identical, several containers can be recorded in one order.

Container sub tab

The tara field must be filled. The fields of country of origin and destination country only have to be filledin case of presenting the goods to customs.

There is the option to enter additional free text. Select Enter text per container in the context menu in Goods tab → Container → Description of Goods area.

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Dangerous goods sub tab

Dangerous goods data as per IMDG/RID/ADR can be transmittedt via AC03 interface.

Customs sub tab

For the transmission of rail service orders the declaration of the customs data is mandatory. Enter the data on the Goods tab → Customs.

Specify value of goods in EUR 

The value of goods must be transmitted in EURO.

For this purpose it is necessary to activate the Preallocation CS RAIL AC03 Customs value Euro.

This pre-assignment is used to check whether the Currency field in the Service order - Goods description - Customs sub tab is filled with the value EUR.

  • If another currency has been entered, a warning message is displayed and the field is cleared.


Would you like to use this function? Then please get in touch with your contact person at CargoSoft.

General info on Preallocations

Addresses from the order can be preallocated in the service order via the preallocation function.

Switch to the Goods tab and enter the goods description manually, if there is no preallocation setting done for an automatical transfer of the goods description from the order.

AC03 Import: Procedure T1/T2 NCTS

The customs procedure Simplified Community Transit Procedures (VgVV) has expired.

The existing electronic procedure T1/T2 NCTS (New Computerized Transit System) is to replace this procedure. The NCTS procedure requires registration in the ATLAS customs system.

In order for the railway provider to be able to continue creating the NCTS in the future, new customs requirements in a booking from a German seaport must include the following data in addition to other customs information, such as a description of the goods:

  • Code of the competent receiving customs office

  • Seal number

  • Weight of customs goods per commodity number

  • Value of the customs goods per commodity number, with currency information

  • Customs tariff number for each commodity number

The AC03 service order is enhanced with the required customs data.

Enter the customs data to be transmitted in the AC03 service order as follows:

  1. Seal number: The seal number is recorded in the container data of the description of goods in the order and then automatically transferred to the service order.

  2. Customs tariff number and weight per commodity number: These values ​​are recorded in the customs tab of each package line (sub-level from the 2nd level in the description of goods). If there are several lines of packages, the weights are automatically added up during transmission.

  3. Value of goods and currency: These two fields are located in Service order → Goods tab → Customs sub tab. There are two ways of recording:

  • the value of the goods is entered per commodity code, divided into each package line or

  • the total value of the goods is entered in the first row package line.

ATTENTION: The value of goods must be entered in EUR. Another currency will not be transmitted.

    4. Customs office: The type of customs office and the customs office is recorded in the customs tab of the container line (1st level of the goods description).

Send service order

The following particularities should be noted:

→ If an order is in the transmission status, it cannot be sent again.

→ An update can only be sent if the status is provider OK (green check mark).
The function Send service order update cannot be selected if an update in the current status is not possible.

→ Orders can only be canceled if the status is provider OK (green check mark)
The function Cancel service order cannot be selected if a cancellation in the current status is not possible.

Status messages

EDI-Log

Here you can see whether the transmission process (direction O) on the export interface was successful. Any error messages that occur are displayed in the Log sub tab.

The .xml send file is available on the Details sub tab.

EDI-Status

The responses (Status events) are imported to the EDI-Status tab.

The possible statuses are created when the interface / first transmission is set up.

If activated in the status events, the status messages are also send by e-mail.

In addition, a status type can be stored here, whereby a status (eastatus_t) is created.