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About ShipsGo

ShipsGo’s vision is to make people happy with the information. Since our journey in the container transportation business began.
We have been trying to organize the shipping industry’s information and make it accessible universally. We have developed two well-known products in the digital container transportation market; container tracking and route finder. These two products were developed for “visibility” in container transport. We provide information on the current position of containers and carriers’ route performances (transit time and reliability). We have reached 5,000 daily searches on our website from 70+ countries and plan to reach 30,000 daily searches worldwide.

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What ShipsGo offers with container tracking API service?

ShipsGo container tracking application programming interface (API) allows you to integrate your website or enterprise system with ShipsGo container tracking service API request functionality and even more. Briefly, you will receive valuable and detailed information about container status to serve your customers and enhance your company’s logistics functions by using the ShipsGo database. Your enterprise will strengthen its capabilities by improving these processes’ efficiency while your customers are satisfied with easy-to-reach pieces of information from your website. 

The integration of container tracking API with your enterprise system is relatively easy and only has a few steps; you will save money, time, and workload. Reducing unnecessary container tracking costs and expenses such as software and hardware will enable you to create efficient time and budget management for other business operations. Another benefit of the ShipsGo container tracking API service is that; it allows you better ocean freight activity control and power.

ShipsGo container tracking (API) for your enterprise

Port of Loading and Port of Discharge: By integrating ShipsGo container tracking API, you will receive the name of the port of loading (POL) and the port of discharge(POD). Our container tracking API allows you to track your container’s journey from its starting point to its final point.

Carrier of the Vessel Voyage: One of the other relevant information ShipsGo API provides is the carrier’s name operating the vessel voyage.

Vessel: ShipsGo container tracking API gives the ship’s information such as; IMO number, and live location of the vessel. Having an international maritime organization number-IMO (the unique identifier of a vessel) and its live location is an essential requirement that increases visibility.

Arrival and Departure Dates: The API provides the departure date of the loading port (POL) and the arrival date of the port of discharge(POD). The voyage’s total transit time is another information the user’s systems get with ShipsGo container tracking API integration.

Transit Port Details: You can receive the number of transit ports, name of transit ports, loading and discharging date of the transit ports, and transit time between ports in seconds.

B/L Containers: Users send container tracking requests both by container number and master bill of lading(B/L) number via ShipsGo container tracking API. Besides, when users search the B/L number to the system, they receive all container numbers of which the B/L contains.

ShipsGo has ready-to-use samples of PHP and HTML codes and Console Application Project for web use. The samples have been developed to increase your user experience. We strive for our users to receive the best service and make them happy with transferring the information.

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SASA is a leading producer in the world for polyester staple fibers, filament yarns, polyester-based and speciality polymers and intermediates (DMT). Combining and blending a leadership responsibility in the industry with a robust technical inheritance and a high production capacity, SASA successfully manages the whole process from design to production and distribution.

SASA began its activities in the polyester sector in 1966. Since its establishment, the company has been one of the pioneer corporations in its field, demonstrating rapid growth thanks to incessant investments.

As of 30th April 2015, Erdemoğlu Holding became the principal shareholder of SASA with 51% shares by acquiring all SASA shares of Sabancı Holding A.Ş. and 49% of stocks are offered to the public. Following the mandatory share purchase process completed in 2015 August, Erdemoğlu Holding A.Ş.’s share ratio reached 84,80% in SASA Polyester Sanayi A.Ş.

Having Dynamit Nobel, ICI, and Dupont technologies in its know-how database, SASA has a robust technical infrastructure thanks to its leading production plants with high capacities, its qualified employees of over 1500 people and its Research and Development Center established in 2002.

SASA’s central production facility is located in Adana and established on a field of 1.250.000 m². Its raw material storage facility is located in İskenderun.

Among Turkey’s most exporting companies in 2017, SASA ranked 76th in Turkey

Approach: ShipsGo BCO Package with ERP Integration

SASA uses ShipsGo services both in inbound (import) and outbound (export) logistics activities. The company employs 11 different container shipping lines in its shipments. After the integration of ShipsGo with SASA’s SAP-ERP system, the company can collect information from ShipsGo system concerning the location of containers and ETA about the related POL/POD port. By using this information, they can follow all of their containers through the live map. This map is also shown on TV Screens located in the production site as a sign of how global company  SASA is.

In addition to the standard reports and alerts of ShipsGo, SASA IT Team developed customized reports and alerts concerning the expectations of logistics/transport departments by the help of the data supported by the ShipsGo. For example, SASA’s sales department, at the beginning of each week gets the information of all containers to arrive and starts to communicate buyers to accelerate the payment process. “This customized report eased the payment collection of our company,” says IT Manager Ali Dilbas. He also adds “we are planning to develop customized reports very soon.”

SASA also allows his customers to follow their containers by live map. The customers can reach the position and the other details of the container merely by entering the container number. Customer phone traffic has decreased by 40 % after this service according to the Sales department. “We also observed cost reduction depending on the “release alert” notifications in terms of demurrage costs,” says IT Manager Ali Dilbas.

With the other service provided by ShipsGo, when our customers enter the container information on our company’s website, they can reach the information about where the container is coming and the estimated time to arrive at the port on the world map. Customers’ phone traffic has decreased by 40% in the sales department.

Outcomes:  Measurable and Solid Outcomes

•    API integration process with SAP-ERP system with ShipsGo.

•    Increased customer satisfaction due to the visibility of the containers.

•    Customers’ phone traffic has decreased by 40% in the sales department.

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