INTTRA Provides Unmatched Visibility with the Availability of Idle Container Management

July 28, 2008

Leading B2B Platform for Ocean Shipping Provides the Ability to Track, Control and Collaborate

PARSIPPANY, NJ, July 28, 2008 – INTTRA, the leading e-commerce portal for the ocean freight industry, today announces the availability of INTTRA Idle Container Management (ICM), an intuitive, on-demand shipment management solution that allows shippers and freight forwarders to manage exceptions in the ocean container supply chain quickly and efficiently.  INTTRA ICM allows customers visibility across multiple ocean carriers, customers and locations and to receive alerts if a particular shipment is not moving as planned.  User-defined alert thresholds allow shippers to focus on and then resolve potential problems before they escalate. 

Containers not moving to plan create physical vulnerabilities, customer delivery uncertainty and higher costs to the supply chain due to excess inventory and demurrage. By leveraging INTTRA’s comprehensive global network of carriers and trading partners, INTTRA ICM merges commercial and operational data into information that shippers and freight forwarders can use to avoid costly delays at critical supply chain junctures.  The three key components of INTTRA ICM allow shippers to track, control and share supply chain data to meet business critical needs:

• Track– INTTRA ICM provides visibility throughout the supply chain in order to track all active shipments based on business needs and to manage shipments via multiple references, including Booking, BL and PO Number.  INTTRA ICM also identifies key operational details, including the latest container event and location, and vessel / voyage information both at the shipment and container level. 

• Control–INTTRA ICM helps transform data into the information that shippers and their customers need to run a global supply chain.  User defined alarms, searches and filters make identifying and addressing potential problems easy and intuitive.  Searches can be filtered by carrier, customer, vessel / voyage, references and other criteria relevant to a particular business. 

• Collaborate– INTTRA ICM makes it easy to share information, both within an organization as well as with the organization’s global trading partners.  User defined exception alerts help internal teams consistently identify and respond to potential issues in the global supply chain.  The intuitive ICM data export feature also allows organizations to quickly forward shipment details to the necessary business units or partners. 

“Visibility of supply chain data is crucial to the growth and success of the logistics industry,” said John DeBenedette, Vice President of Commercial, INTTRA.  “With the availability of INTTRA Idle Container Management we are providing companies with a simple-to-use comprehensive solution that enables them to take greater control of their supply chain.”

About INTTRA

INTTRA, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., is a leading global provider of e-commerce solutions to ocean carriers and their customers.  INTTRA professionals work with customers to streamline and standardize their shipping processes, applying their e-commerce knowledge of the shipping industry for customers in markets worldwide.

More than 260,000 container orders are initiated on the INTTRA platform each week, representing more than 10 percent of global ocean container trade.

INTTRA’s e-commerce platform offers a comprehensive range of e-commerce tools, including: Tender, Sailing Schedules, Booking, Shipping Instructions, Bill of Lading, Track & Trace, and Reports.  Accessing the INTTRA platform is simple, using any combination of their channel solutions: INTTRA-Link (EDI-based, system-to-system connection), INTTRA-Desktop (off-line PC application), or INTTRA-Act (web-based application).

INTTRA’s carrier network includes, Alianca, ANL, CCL, CMA CGM, CSAV, CSAV NORASIA, Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Emirates Shipping Line, Hamburg Sud, Hanjin Shipping Co., Hapag-Lloyd, “K” Line, Libra, Maersk Line, MCC Transport Pte Ltd., MISC, Mitsui O.S.K.  Lines, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., NYK Line, Safmarine, Senator Lines, United Arab Shipping Company.  

For further information visit www.inttra.com. Or contact Andy Barrons, INTTRA Vice President of Marketing, at +1.973.263.5100 or email him at: andy.barrons@inttra.com.

INTTRA, the INTTRA logo, INTTRA-LINK, INTTRA-Desktop, INTTRA-ACT are trademarks or registered trademarks, service marks or registered service marks of INTTRA, Inc.  All other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective holders