LOC

Place/Location Identification. The EDIFACT segment to point to a place — country, port, warehouse, dock — with qualification.

Definition

The LOC segment, per UN/EDIFACT D.96A, is used "to identify a country/place/location/related location one/related location two". Five elements:

1. 010 — 3227 Place/location qualifier (an..3, M) — UNCL 3227: 9 place of loading, 11 place of receipt, 27 port of discharge, 89 consignor's address.
2. 020 — C517 (LOCATION IDENTIFICATION), conditional: 3225 coded identifier, 1131/3055 code-list authority, 3224 literal place name.
3. 030 — C519 (RELATED LOCATION ONE), conditional: 3223 identifier, 3222 name — port of origin, dock, related zone.
4. 040 — C553 (RELATED LOCATION TWO), conditional: 3233 identifier, 3232 name — second related location.
5. 050 — 5479 Relation, coded (an..3, C) — UNCL 5479 qualifying the relation between the two related locations.

Origin

LOC is central in logistics messages (IFTMIN, IFTSTA, DESADV). Present since EDIFACT v1, its current structure (two optional related locations) dates back to D.93A. ediverse.io archives the D.96A specification at trsdloc.htm.

Example in context

Port of loading Antwerp (UN/LOCODE):

Reads as: qualifier 9 (Place of loading), identifier BEANR (Antwerp, Belgium), code-list authority 6 (UN/LOCODE).

Related terms

• NAD — alternative segment for full postal addresses.
• GLN — standardised location identifier carried by LOC in retail.
• Qualifier — UNCL 3227.
• DESADV — message where LOC appears at package level.