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INTTRA soothes shipping headaches

[ November 15, 2017   //   Chris ]

Electronic ocean shipping platform INTTRA has launched a Cloud-based Container Forecasting and Allocation Solutions Tool (C-FAST) to help freight forwarders and NVOCCs match their customers’ container volume to carrier capacity availability.

INTRRA says that the software, which was unveiled at its Asia Technology Summit in Singapore in mid-September, helps simplify what can be a complex manual process. It says that C-Fast can achieve operational improvements of up to 40% and up to $4 million annual cost savings in multiple operating regions.

Initiated with easily imported customer forecasts, carrier commitments and contracts, C-FAST considers quantity commitment, contract type, and carrier space contractual obligations by port.  It also has a dashboard review of planned-to-actual bookings to help plan for next year.

INTRRA has also launched an enhanced version of its Ocean Schedules offering to optimise shipment planning.

This is also now Cloud-based and is available which allows customers to integrate schedules data into their transport management system, rate management system or other in-house applications.

New enhancements support transshipment details for selected carriers and port pairs to enable more informed route selection, terminal cut-off dates that alert users when containers are expected at the terminal and a new web interface that supports expanded data sets with additional filters such as schedule comparison and personalised search settings.

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