Shipnomics Shipment Visibility Platform – Demo
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Key Benefits
· Dramatically reduces the time spent in managing and tracking shipments.
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Routing
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Forwarding and Brokering
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Freight Payment, Billing, and Claims
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Reporting
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• Avoid inefficiencies and make real-time changes
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Inventory Visibility
• Automate tasks to reduce overhead
• Manage vs. monitor inventory
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• Manage users and security levels
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• Manage carrier relationships, responses
Transportation Sourcing
• Automatically pull data from active transportation data hub
• Build bid packages and load bids
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Trans-Pacific Westbound Bunker Charges to Increase
September 14, 2009 by Splatty
Filed under Seafreight
The carriers comprising the WTSA have announced an increase to the bunker charges for ocean freight effective October 1st.
See the following link for details:
http://www.wtsacarriers.org/adjustments.html
Ocean freight update
September 8, 2009 by Splatty
Filed under Seafreight
It’s been awhile since we last provided an update on the state of ocean freight rates, but with all of the recent activities within the industry, now is a good time. Keep in mind that most of the information below is coming from an NVOCC perspective. If you are a beneifical cargo owner, this information may or may not apply depending upon your individual contract terms.
The last few weeks have been a very busy time for both carriers and forwarders alike. Carriers, facing record drops in volumes, and many facing severe financial difficulties, have recently announced a general rate increase (GRI) for many trade lanes. In my view, the most heavily impacted is the Trans-Pacific Eastbound traffic into the United States from China. Fourteen carriers in the TSA have announced a GRI increase of $400 perTEU and $500 per FEU effective August 10th. Many NVO’s were taking a wait and see approach to determine if they could be successful in either mitigating or completely waiving the GRI. However, with few exceptions, it appears that the GRI is unavoidable. To complicate matters, due to many carriers combining services and reducing capacity, many vessels are running full and we are beginning to see space issues and containers rolling to subsequent vessels.
In addition to the GRI, we are hearing rumblings of many carriers mentioning plans of implementing a peak season surcharge sometime in September/October. Initial indications are that the PSS will be in the $400 to $500 range.
The inbound Asia trade lanes are not the only trade lanes that will be impacted. Many carriers with export service to the South Pacific region have announced plans to implement a GRI. There are also potential GRI’s on the Trans-pacific Westbound trade lanes as well.
Sorry I don’t have better news, but this is the reality of the environment we are in. If you haven’t already, contact your forwarder to determine their position and it also might be wise to communicate your anticipated container volumes and scheduling to help in securing vessel space at origin.
Click here for the official announcement from the TSA.
Maersk Logistics now trading as Damco
Via Maersk Press release.
Copenhagen, 7 September 2009 – The A.P. Moller – Maersk Group’s logistics activities start trading as Damco on Monday 7 September 2009.
Damco is the result of the integration of the company’s supply chain management activities previously branded as Maersk Logistics and its forwarding activities previously branded as Damco.
Rolf Habben-Jansen, CEO of Damco states: “Under the new brand, our primary drivers remain our passion for working closely with our customers and our dedication to reliable, high-quality service delivery.
“Engaging with our customers to become and remain their preferred choice in the industry is at the centre of what we stand for as Damco” says Rolf Habben-Jansen.
Damco is primarily known in the market for the consistency and quality of their global operations, and have through high growth in the past years become one of the leading players in the industry. They have taken leading positions with their supply chain development capabilities, as well as in the quest to reduce carbon emissions in supply chains.
Martin Thaysen, Chief Commercial Officer at Damco says: “The new brand gives us a much stronger platform to present and deliver our full service portfolio. We have a strong global coverage, with particular strengths in emerging markets, and we deliver both single freight forwarding services or structure more advanced individual solutions for our customers, depending on their needs.”
“We are looking forward to working with our customers, business partners, and colleagues on making the new Damco a success,” says Martin Thaysen.
About Damco
Damco is the new, combined brand of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group’s logistics activities.
Damco offers a broad range of supply chain management and freight forwarding services to customers all over the world, and has 10,500 colleagues in 272 offices, covering over 93 countries in Africa, Asia, North America, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America.
In 2008, the company had a net turn-over of USD 2.8 billion, shipped more than half a million TEUs ocean freight, air freighted over 60,000 tonnes, and handled over 50 million CBMs (equivalent to 2 million TEU) for our supply chain management customers.
Damco is an independent business activity within the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group.
For more information, please visit www.damco.com.
