INTTRA, the carrier-owned e-commerce platform, has opened an expanded office in Hong Kong after posting a 50 per cent year-on-year growth in the Asia Pacific region with an addition of 5,500 customers, the company announced.
Shipping lines jointly own INTTRA and pay US$6 for each container the platform processes, said INTTRA chief executive Ken Bloom. With more than 260,000 container orders a week moving through the platform, Mr Bloom reckons that his business handles 10 per cent of the world's ocean container traffic.
INTTRA's carrier network includes: Alianca, ANL, CCL, CMA CGM, CSAV, CSAV NORASIA, Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Emirates Shipping Line, Hamburg Sud, Hanjin Shipping Co, Hapag-Lloyd, "K" Line, Libra, Maersk Line, MCC Transport Pte Ltd., MISC, Mitsui OSK Lines, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, NYK Line, Safmarine, Senator Lines, United Arab Shipping Company.
Shippers, chiefly forwarders, use the platform to make bookings, access schedules, submit shipping instructions, review bills of lading, create standard reports and track shipments.
The platform, founded in 2000 in Copenhagen, but now based in Parsippany, New Jersey, was started as a carrier joint-venture that works to streamline and standardise shipping processes, applying e-commerce, said a company statement.
Shipping lines jointly own INTTRA and pay US$6 for each container the platform processes, said INTTRA chief executive Ken Bloom. With more than 260,000 container orders a week moving through the platform, Mr Bloom reckons that his business handles 10 per cent of the world's ocean container traffic.
INTTRA's carrier network includes: Alianca, ANL, CCL, CMA CGM, CSAV, CSAV NORASIA, Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Emirates Shipping Line, Hamburg Sud, Hanjin Shipping Co, Hapag-Lloyd, "K" Line, Libra, Maersk Line, MCC Transport Pte Ltd., MISC, Mitsui OSK Lines, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, NYK Line, Safmarine, Senator Lines, United Arab Shipping Company.
Shippers, chiefly forwarders, use the platform to make bookings, access schedules, submit shipping instructions, review bills of lading, create standard reports and track shipments.
The platform, founded in 2000 in Copenhagen, but now based in Parsippany, New Jersey, was started as a carrier joint-venture that works to streamline and standardise shipping processes, applying e-commerce, said a company statement.