For organisations operating in or with the UK, BSI recommends purchasing the adopted British Standard.
This document specifies the requirements for transport unit identifiers (TUID). These requirements supplement those of ISO 8000-115 .
The following are within the scope of this document:
the methods used to identify the originator of a potential shipment;
the methods used to identify the origin and destination locations of a potential shipment;
the requirements for the representation of the originator, origin, and destination locations of a potential shipment in a single identifier.
The following are outside the scope of this document:
the methods used to identify shipments in the transport phase;
the identification of the goods movement phase.