Oceanschedules.com launches new customized schedule search and data service for shipping industry
MSC To Adopt Oceanschedules.Com Customized Solution; Provide Users with Comprehensive Tool for Searching Ocean Schedule Data
Parsippany, N.J. October 7, 2007 - OceanSchedules.com, a leading online provider of free ocean container schedules to all shippers and forwarders, today announces the availability of a customized version of the OceanSchedules.com site including data, content and advertising options for carriers, forwarders, ports, trade associations and software developers to apply to their own Websites. Eliminating the need to search and compile data from multiple sources, this customizable site delivers world-class functionality without IT investment in hardware and software.
Using advanced Web-based technology, OceanSchedules.com delivers global, comprehensive carrier schedules with an interactive, search interface that enables shippers and forwarders to more quickly and easily search global voyage data. This package is now available for users that want the ease of OceanSchedules.com functions transferred and customized for their Website to their company brand, including all content, data and even the capabilities to easily create their own advertising and marketing platform.
"Just as a company would use Google maps or an e-mail service on a software-as-a-service basis, we will soon be able to improve the schedules service we offer our customers by using the OceanSchedules.com platform to provide a world-class online schedules search to our online customers at a much lower IT cost," explained Andre Simha, chief information officer, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).
The process of customizing OceanSchedules.com so that the content is filtered to a user's needs only takes a few weeks. There are no upfront IT costs and no hardware or software to buy. There are fees for various levels of customization, along with an annual maintenance charge. All are dependent on the level of customization a company chooses, from providing schedules to creating a marketing platform suited to their brand, or even building applications that integrate OceanSchedules.com into the user's backend system.
Until Oceanschedules.com there was no single global resource for access to the schedules data that companies needed, leaving many shippers and forwarders to rely on old technology, downloading PDF's or using cumbersome manual processes to get the job done. With the integration option, OceanSchedules.com enables a user to search the site's nine million voyage records and instantly pass the relevant voyage data into their own internal system for easy use without rekeying. OceanSchedules.com is the only on-demand application provider with the depth of data to offer ocean industry professionals a sophisticated search application that is customized to their brand, offering users an easy-to-use and more intuitive search experience.
"Obtaining accurate and secure real-time schedules directly from carriers and being able to easily conduct schedule analysis is critical to ocean supply chain decisions," said Harry Sangree, managing director of OceanSchedules.com. "By introducing a customized on-demand service that can easily plug in to our users corporate applications or Web site, we continue our tradition of being the first in the industry to bring innovative solutions to improve ocean schedules search."
About OceanSchedules.com
OceanSchedules.com is based in Parsippany, NJ. The web site is free to all shippers and forwarders and offers free schedule hosting to all carriers. Using advanced Web-based technology, OceanSchedules.com delivers global, comprehensive carrier schedules with an interactive interface that enables shippers and forwarders to more quickly and easily search global voyage data. The site also provides advertisers with the opportunity to target transportation planners and freight buyers of ocean shipping based on their search interests.
For further information visit www.oceanschedules.com. Or contact Andy Barrons, Vice President of Marketing, at +1.973.265.2208, Harry Sangree, Managing Director, OceanSchedules.com, at +1.973.265.2272 or email: feedback@oceanschedules.com.