The Global Chain of Maritime Biofuel

Every ISCC document, from the mill to the ship's bunker. Extracted from the file, checked by a person, and held to a mass balance that has to close.

Today the chain lives in a spreadsheet

A Proof of Sustainability carries 52 fields. A Sustainability Declaration carries 57. They arrive as PDFs, and as spreadsheets where every tab is a different document. Today they are checked on paper and retyped by hand.

The chain of custody lives somewhere else entirely: which batch became which, and how much volume went where. In an ISCC audit, that is the part that has to add up. A typo in a GHG field is not a typo, it is a compliance finding.

52
fields in a PoS
57
fields in an SD
7
tabs in a single upload

Four steps, and none of them is a spreadsheet

  1. 01

    Upload

    PDF or Excel, one file or many. A seven-tab spreadsheet becomes seven documents.

  2. 02

    Extract

    The system tells a PoS from an SD and reads the form into the sections it already has.

  3. 03

    Review

    The file sits next to the fields. A person confirms every value, and gaps stay visible.

  4. 04

    Register

    The document becomes immutable, links to the batch it came from, and the balance has to close.

The document never leaves the screen

Fields on one side, the original file on the other, grouped into the same sections the ISCC form uses. What the parser could not find stays on the list, marked, so the gap is something you decide about instead of something you miss.

Review · PoS-1009-0001

Unique number
PoS-1009-0001
Date of issuance
2026-03-23
Type of product
Bioethanol
Raw material
Corn / Maize
Quantity
2,040.2906738 m³/15 °C
Energy content
42,846,104 MJ
GHG total
22.16 gCO₂eq/MJ
Contract number
not found

From the mill to the ship

Each document links to the ones it derives from, and every link carries the quantity it allocates. The last one is the Fuel Lifecycle Label: the document that goes to the vessel, with the receiving ship's IMO number and the bunker delivery note.

  1. SD

    Mill

    Declares the feedstock

  2. PoS

    Producer

    Issues proof per batch

  3. PoS

    Trader

    Splits and reissues

  4. FLL

    Bunker

    Labels the delivery

  5. BDN

    Ship

    Takes it on board

One batch, two destinations, and it still adds up

A trader splits an incoming batch across two legal entities. The database refuses the link the moment the children exceed the parent.

Mass balance of a split batch, in cubic metres at 15 °C
inPoS-1009-00012,048.5800000
outPoS-1009-0001-A2,040.2906738
outPoS-1009-0001-B8.2900000
sum of outputs2,048.5806738

Volume closes exactly. Energy differs by 14 MJ, or 0.00003 %, from rounding the smaller leg. Which is the point: the rule carries a tolerance, not an equality.

What it does

  • Automatic extraction

    PDF and Excel go in; the fields of the ISCC form come out, ordered by section and never retyped.

  • Side-by-side review

    The original document stays on screen next to the field. No switching windows to check a number.

  • Batch and multi-tab upload

    A spreadsheet where every tab is a different document is processed in one go.

  • ISCC certificate check

    The certificate number printed on the document is checked against the official ISCC hub, and the PDF is kept.

  • Chain of custody

    Parent-to-child links carry the allocated quantity, and the mass balance is enforced by the database itself.

  • Fuel Lifecycle Label

    The FLL is generated from registered PoS. Blend table, energy, LCV and GHG are computed, never typed.

See it on real documents

The demo runs on real ISCC forms. Upload a PoS or an SD, check the extracted fields against the original, and follow the batch down the chain.

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