When Malcolm McLean laid the foundations for what’s now become the global containerisation phenomenon, his vision was for standardisation across the entire supply chain. If goods of all types could be loaded into metal boxes, all 20 feet long and eight feet high, then the vessels that carry them and the port infrastructure required to handle their shoreside movement could also be standardised. Trucks and trains could hook up with ships and the boxes easily transhipped to their final delivery...
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Softship introduces port cost tool for carriers
Softship, a global shipping software solutions provider, has launched a web-based Port Cost Calculator for carriers to maintain up-to-the-minute, fully accurate records and full visibility of expenses at all stages of each individual port call.
Softship explains that a vessel’s expected port activities will be pre-loaded into its Port Cost Calculator from the original port call templates and unforeseen or real-time adjustments can be taken direct from vessel reports.
Based on this, the Calculator...
https://container-news.com/softship-introduces-port-cost-tool-for-carriers/
ebooking takes the fax and figures out of supply chains
Airlines have Sabre the shipping industry has a fax machine. Adoption of modern technologies within the maritime sector has been slow, but the pandemic has given added impetus to the uptake of tech. Softship’s Pricing Calculator will change the industry argues Lars Fischer, MD at Softship Data Processing Singapore, part of the WiseTech Group.
The process of calculating multi-modal transportation models and rates for customers looking to ship goods can cause shipping companies to haemorrhage...
https://container-news.com/ebooking-takes-the-fax-and-figures-out-of-supply-chains/
Softship launches Pricing Calculator to optimise multi-modal supply chain options and costs
Thomas Wolff
Soft ship launches Pricing Calculator to optimise multi-modal supply chain options and costs
August 18, 2020 – Software solutions provider Softship has launched an innovative, web-based Pricing Calculator that allows supply chain managers and operators to identify and select optimum end-to-end multi-modal solutions for their customers and achieve full cost transparency.
Designed for Trade, Sales and Agency Managers working within containership companies, the Pricing Calculator...
Dynamic pricing will alter shippers’ carrier experience
Developments in the technology over the last 10 years have allowed shipping lines to offer fast quotations but Softship’s latest development of its Pricing Calculator will offer a new dimension in cargo booking and routing as well as develop dynamic pricing models.
Softship, a subsidiary of the Australia-based WiseTech Global, has launched the latest version of its Pricing Calculator which is browser based and will offer carrier customers the option of giving instant quotes over the phone or...
https://container-news.com/dynamic-pricing-will-alter-shippers-carrier-experience/