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INTTRA Signs Carrier Contracts Worth More Than $100 Million As E-commerce Growth Continues

March 25, 2009

Foundation for Broader Long Term Strategy

Parsippany, NJ – March 25, 2009 – INTTRA, the leading e-commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, has entered into long-term agreements with Maersk Line, Safmarine, MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Sud for e-commerce and professional services worth more than $100 million over the next three years. This significant commitment from carriers represents an endorsement of INTTRA's new vision and provides the foundation for carriers to continue to receive cost savings and efficiencies from the INTTRA platform.

The new contracts are part of a longer term strategy to expand INTTRA's e-commerce services and products for carriers and their shipping partners. This commitment from INTTRA's leading carriers in part will fund new product development, while underpinning INTTRA's unwavering focus on continuous business process innovation for ocean carriers.

With an unrivaled global network of 20,000 corporate locations and the economies of scale inherent in its e-commerce platform, INTTRA has become an integral part of carrier cost reduction strategies. Since INTTRA launched eight years ago, it has lowered the average cost of key business processes for carriers by sixty percent. Today, more than 260,000 container orders are initiated on the INTTRA platform each week, representing more than 10 percent of global ocean container trade.

"This is a very challenging market for our carriers, and so INTTRA is particularly pleased that many of our carriers have entered into long term contracts with us. We are committed to creating more efficiency for this market through new and existing products and services," said Ken Bloom, Chief Executive Officer of INTTRA. "For all our carriers we are pleased to say that, in these tough times, e-commerce volumes continue to increase. INTTRA has logged increased year-on-year volumes and has grown in the last quarter by 12% as carriers seek to gain more cost savings from their business processes."

About INTTRA
INTTRA is a leading global provider of e-commerce solutions to the ocean freight industry. INTTRA professionals work with over 30 leading carriers to streamline and standardize their shipping processes worldwide through a network of over 20,000 corporate locations. Over 260,000 container orders are initiated on the INTTRA platform each week, representing more than 10 percent of global ocean container trade.
For further information, visit www.inttra.com. Or contact Andy Barrons, Vice President of Marketing, +1.973.265.2208, 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.

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