1001 Smart Cities
🚲 Mobility
🇱🇰 Colombo

Maritime Terminal EDI Automation System

Sri Lanka Ports Authority's Container Terminal Management System at the Jaya and Unity terminals combines DGPS-based container position detection, an active RFID tag network for gate control, and a web-based terminal operating system — upgraded to Navis N4 in 2021 — with CODECO (UN/EDIFACT) EDI feeds for shipping agents.

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📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · Digital twin · LoRaWAN

Sources

↗ Sri Lanka Ports Authority (operator)Official documentation profiling commercial container terminal metrics.
↗ Sri Lanka Ports Authority (operator)Official site of the organisation running the project.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Maritime Terminal EDI Automation System” — Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/colombo-port-logistics/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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