Statement of Facts are produced by each port and contain information on activities carried out in port, such as volumes
loaded/unloaded, type of cargo, arrival and departure times, cargo handling time, breaks, clearance inward and outward,
etc. The ports send these documents to the shipping companies’ operational departments. The details of what facts are
reported varied among ports, as ports used their own format. In all cases, these documents were sent as scanned copies
of the original paper documents