This is the most fully specified end-to-end architecture in the portfolio, and it is being tested on a live bidirectional corridor: manufacturing companies with production facilities in Sweden and Estonia, road carriers, a ferry operator across the Baltic, port gates, eFTI platforms, national Gates and authority interfaces.
The model assigns each layer a precise role. Forwarder and carrier transport management systems originate the transport order and the ferry booking. eCMR and eFTI platforms create the consolidated eCMR, register a Consignment Movement Data Set per leg and hold the business data for selective disclosure. An eFTI Hub provides “one platform, one integration” reach along the corridor without bilateral links. The eFTI Gates in Estonia and Sweden issue Unique electronic Identification Links, operate the registry of identifiers and broker authority access under Implementing Regulation 2024/1942 — remaining pure intermediaries that hold no business data. Ferry booking and vessel manifest systems provision the sea leg, with the manifest built from booking data and reported to the Maritime Single Window under Regulation (EU) 2019/1239, which also supplies ship ATD/ATA. Port gate systems resolve the presented number to the consignment movement and apply the combined-transport stamp. The Virtual Watch Tower sits over the corridor as a visibility and disruption-monitoring layer that consumes movement events without altering the data.
The validation plan is correspondingly detailed, covering semantic, schema, identifier, lifecycle, traceability, security, performance, interoperability and authority-access validation — including the full consignment movement state machine from draft through to closed.
