Due to the fact that some ports receive a lot of traffic and are important transit points in maritime transport, the duration of the ship’s stay in the port is limited. In some cases, these times are disrupted and unexpected shipment delays occur.

About the Shipment Delays

“Back in the 1990s when carriers had the on-time performance at the 90-plus percent levels, we could carry smaller amounts of inventory,” a Hong Kong-based logistics manager for a global sporting brand told Journal of Commerce Magazine in late October 2018. “Right now, we must hold up to 28 days stock. Another shipper told JOC; “The information chain is carrier-freight forwarder-us, so it takes time,” he said. “We prefer to have it much more quickly, but we buffer stock for unexpected delays. When it happens, we check if we have enough buffer, if customers will accept the delay, or if we should deploy airfreight.”

What is the Solution to Unexpected Shipment Delays?

Use the “ShipsGo Service Finder” tool; Check the ShipsGo’s estimated transit time and the last three performances of your carrier. Also, check the transit time suggestions of ShipsGo from/to nearby alternative ports. As soon as you start your container tracking with ShipsGo, you always receive the delays/updates notifications just on time.

Port to the port transit time from Rotterdam to Port Said.

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Approach: ShipsGo BCO Package

Evyap logistics team needs the details of every shipment information, such as the name of the port of loading and discharging, date of loading, name, and dates of transit ports, and total transit time. They used to get that information from their freight forwarders by phone and had problems reaching accurate information. After using, the ShipsGo container tracking service, they no longer need to have exhausting calls with forwarders to receive the information. The team now follows the location of their cargo by using an interactive map and dashboard.

Only in 3 months has there been a decrease in the time and human effort required to track a container. In addition to decreasing phone calls and mail traffics, thanks to the ShipsGo notification e-mails, Evyap could avoid unaccepted costs like dispatch, demurrage, and customer losses. ShipsGo delay notification e-mails also affected the carrier decision of Evyap for their next shipments. If a carrier doesn’t discharge your container at the promised date, why should you choose that carrier again should?

ShipsGo shipment statistics also provide benefits to Evyap. After tracking their container, Evyap shipments directly turned out monthly, and annual statistics report the basis of TEU, carriers, export, and import countries. They could see how many containers were on route or arrive on time. Besides, Evyap directly receives the reports of the number of containers carried in the last months and what is the proportion of each carrier in their shipment. Before ShipsGo, they couldn’t keep such kinds of statistics or were trying to keep them manually.

Outcomes:  Measurable and Solid Outcomes

Location of their shipment on a live map

Get rid of using freight forwarders for container tracking

Avoid unaccepted costs such as demurrage, dispatch, and customer lose

Assistance for carrier choosing decision

Minimizing time and human effort for tracking a container

Getting shipment statistics reports which  they couldn’t have

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ShipsGo introduces a new pricing model to support its mission of being “one platform to all” in global container shipping. ShipsGo introduces a new pricing model to support its mission of being “one platform to all” in global container shipping. ShipsGo has a target market including major parties of global parties such as Beneficial Cargo Owners (BCO), Freight Forwarders and, Container Carriers. Considering the fact that small and medium-sized companies are dominant among BCOs and freight forwarders, ShipsGo allows its customers to buy tracking services by paying a minimum amount to the cost of 200 USD. 

ShipsGo’s “pay as you track” pricing model is based on 2 USD per shipment. Shipment may consist of one Master Bill of Lading (MBL) or one container number. Customers having this service can achieve the full visibility of their containers from port to the final delivery point with the limitless query. 

About Shipsgo

ShipsGo’s vision is to make people happy with the information. Since the beginning of our journey in the container transportation business, we have been trying to organize the shipping industry’s information and make it accessible universally. We have developed our 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 100+ countries and plan to reach 30,000 daily searches worldwide.

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