Web Booking is an online-based application intended to make business transactions at the terminal more efficient. The service is a complementary feature of MICT’s new gate system, a state-of-the-art automated entry system that features computer imaging and tracking systems, boom barriers, weighbridges, truck portals with imaging cameras, automated driver transaction kiosks, and radiation portal monitors.

Web booking is available at the terminal’s ecommerce facility, MICT iBox, which can be accessed via MICT’s website, .

Through Web Booking, shipping lines access MICT’s iBox facilty, create and finalize a booking, and the container is automatically booked. Trucks no longer need to proceed to the administration check (ACheck) for export containers as this procedure has been taken out. Trucks go directly to the entrance gates.

For shipping lines capable of transacting computer to computer information exchanges, electronic data interchange is also possible as the system fully supports Container Announcement Message, a standard UN/EDIFACT message exchange implemented worldwide. This means that shipping lines no longer need to re-input existing data about the export containers on Web Booking as MICT’s system is able to automatically verify the data.

An added feature of Web Booking is its capability to report and monitor cargo status. Thus, shipping lines can have real time updates on a cargo’s status upon its entry until exit from the MICT.

Before Web Booking, shipping line clients of MICT used the Export Container Order (ECO) for the booking of containers. A pre-gate entry procedure, the ECO is presented to the A-Check, where data is manually inputted into the booking system. After the container is booked, only then will the container be allowed entry through the gates.

At the entry, checkers conduct a manual physical inspection (P-Check) of the containers before allowing the containers to proceed to the stacking yard.