Manage your eBills of Lading with MSC UK in Just a Few Clicks
In the UK’s fast-moving shipping and logistics market, instant access to trade documentation is essential for keeping import and export cargo moving efficiently. MSC UK’s electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) solution helps customers manage shipping documents securely online, reducing reliance on paper-based processes and supporting faster, more sustainable trade.
An electronic Bill of Lading is a digital alternative to the traditional paper document, designed to simplify how shipping documentation is handled. This means UK businesses can manage documentation more efficiently while reducing delays, courier costs, and administrative complexity.
With support from MSC UK’s local teams, customers can move towards paperless shipping with confidence. Our experts are on hand to guide you through the process, helping you adopt eBLs in a way that suits your operations, trade flows, and documentation requirements.
Meet our Experts: The Benefits of MSC's eBL Solution for UK Shipping
What is an Electronic Bill of Lading (eBL)?
" The eBL is more than a digital document. It's a smarter way to manage your supply chain. By replacing paper processes with a secure, legally recognised digital solution, customers can reduce delays, improve visibility and keep cargo moving with greater confidence across trade lanes connecting the UK with Asia, Europe, North America and beyond. It's a simple change that delivers real operational and sustainability benefits. "
Safer
Handling international shipments from the UK has never been safer. MSC’s eBL solution reduces the risks of loss, damage, and forgery associated with paper Bills of Lading. Experience enhanced security through WAVE BL's digital courier platform, ensuring data encryption and access restrictions for authorised parties. For UK importers and exporters, this provides greater confidence when managing documentation across busy global trade routes.
Simpler
Accessible anytime, anywhere, from any device, MSC's eBL simplifies documentation processes for UK businesses shipping globally. Digitally managing Bills of Lading speeds up processing times, and enables seamless collaboration between shippers, consignees, banks, and partners across time zones. This is especially valuable for UK teams coordinating cargo through multiple ports, partners, and international markets.
Sustainable
The MSC eBL solution replaces paper Bills of Lading with a fully paperless process, helping UK businesses reduce the need to print, handle, and courier physical documents between multiple parties. By digitising trade documentation, MSC UK supports more sustainable shipping operations, helping importers and exporters lower the carbon footprint associated with paperwork across global supply chains.
Faster
In a single shipment, a paper Bill of Lading may be couriered multiple times, taking several weeks and causing delays that result in cargo sitting idle at its destination, costing you time and money. With MSC’s eBL, documents are processed in moments. For UK businesses, this enables instant document transfer, providing access to authorised parties within the supply chain wherever, whenever they need it, instead of waiting for paper bills of lading to arrive by courier.
Cost-Efficient
Using electronic Bills of Lading helps UK importers and exporters eliminate courier fees for sending documents multiple times, for example when updates or amendments are required. It can also help avoid additional costs by ensuring documentation is ready before containers reach their destination, supporting faster cargo release and smoother trade flows through UK ports.
" With just a few clicks you can create, share and manage electronic bills in minutes, while saving thousands of pounds. It’s faster, safer, cheaper and simpler. And most importantly, it’s more sustainable by reducing paper waste and carbon emissions. "
How Can I Get Started with eBL in the UK?
Getting started with MSC’s electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) in the UK is simple. Our local teams help identify eligible shipments, guide onboarding, and support your move from paper documents to a secure digital workflow.
• Contact MSC UK to discuss your eBL requirements.
• Complete onboarding with support from local experts.
• Access eBLs digitally through approved platforms.
• Manage and transfer documents securely between authorised parties.
Whether importing or exporting, MSC UK helps you adopt eBLs efficiently and confidently.
Transfer your Bill of Lading in Minutes
In the traditional paper-based system, the Bill of Lading is printed at one of our UK offices and transported via multiple transportation methods before reaching its final destination; taking between 5 and 15 days, depending on the recipient’s location and the international trade route involved.
In the digital world of electronic Bills of Lading (eBLs), each transaction takes a maximum of 8 minutes. This means the eBL can be issued at the origin, passed through the necessary parties, and surrendered at the destination in less than one hour, helping UK importers and exporters speed up documentation across global supply chains.
