In first 2011 edition read about how container terminals and stevedores can save lashing resources, see who is offering 24x7 self-service for cargo shipments, explore how social networking now also has entered the transport industry and learn shipping lines and container terminals can share the benefits and costs when progressing vessels' ETDs.

Navis, the leading terminal industry's leading provider of terminal operating systems, TOS, has inked a reseller agreement with arl-shipping.com, complementing ARL's leading RTG planning and execution tools, RTG Deployer and RTG Dispatcher, into Navis's portfolio.

See the full press release here.

Ken Lyon, OnOnShipping, online NVOCC

Most of the developed world is struggling to emerge from the grip of recession. This is in stark contrast to the economies of the developing world, who are exhibiting impressive rates of growth. It is probably going to be some time before the economies in Europe and elsewhere are able to sustain significant growth. This means that businesses are having to reset expectations as to what ‘business as usual’ actually means.

Over the past few years, the terms low cost, value and service have become the norm when describing the kinds of products and services that people are buying. The downturn has forced every business to focus only on the things that are essential for their operations. At the same time, the lack of funding has reduced budgets encouraging the ‘do more with less’ attitude. It is therefore no surprise that those companies who are able to provide great service at low cost are the ones doing well.

At OnOnShipping, we view this environment as the new normal and our goal is to be able to provide our customers with the best service at the lowest cost. To do this we are exploiting technology in innovative ways and also looking at how we can build the organisation in order to have the lowest operating costs. With all of these efforts, our primary yardstick is customer value and customer satisfaction. If we do this, we should be able to meet our goal of lowest rates combined with great service. This approach is not new and is best illustrated by low cost airlines such as Easyjet in the UK and Southwest in the United States. The success of these has prompted a wave of similar companies across the world. However, there is no equivalent in the maritime arena and we think it’s time that this changed. OnOn Shipping is the result.

René, ARL

Ever visited a container terminal and watched the lashing teams having hour-long breaks waiting for next bay to be ready for them to do their job? The real reason might be that lashing teams are assigned in a hierachical manner, limiting their lashing assignments to neighbouring bays in accordance with a specific quay crane's work during a port stay.

Now the solution to break this dependancy is here: The ARL Lashing Planner, planning for high utilisation of lashing teams across not only all bays on a vessel, but all vessels alongside at berth. Read more here.

In later shipZine editions, learn about the safety aspect of lashing planning: Plan to avoid work in unsafe zone & times onboard the vessel.

The ARL shipZine goes to social networking -follow us in Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin by clicking on the icons in upper right corner. And notice how the articles of this shipZine edition can be easily shared with your own Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin account.

René, ARL

Carrier track & trace at a finger tip pre-integrated into website of a transport intermediary, check-out forwarder@ CMS.

During Transport Events Management's 6th Philippine Ports and Shipping conference, in Manila 27-28 January, 2011, ARL's Rene Bendt spoke on the subject of using technology powered utilization market pricing and about what the cargo transport industry can learn from low cost airlines.

See more about the conference and future conferences same organiser here.

arl-shipping.com also exhibited ARL solutions to conference visitors at their booth.

René, ARL

What can all this social media be used for in transportation? Are anybody already doing it?

Lets have a few glimpses at what goes on right now:

Watch later shipZine editions to get more detailed insight of the pros & cons of social networking in transportation.

During Solutions World 2010, hosted by Zebra Enterprise Solutions in San Francisco, California, USA in September 2010, arl-shipping.com participated exhibiting and demo'ing the Navis RTG Commander, which is build by ARL.

ARL's Rene Bendt together with ZES/Navis's Robert Inchausti gave one of the most well visited presentations with almost 100 people attending, presenting the options and features that take the very expensive guess work out of how many RTGs you really need to run your operation, and in which yard blocks to deploy them.

René, ARL

Ever wondered what drives a container terminal to expediete shipping line vessels terminal operations? Well, first of all the terminal need to meet the contractual commitments from their shipping line customers. Secondarily, the terminal need to maintain a cost efficient operation, which is also in the long term benefit of the customer. Sounds right?

But what if all export containers are already at the terminal ready for loading? And the terminal is as such equipped to expediete the vessel faster, but against extra costs. Is the shipping line willing to cover those extra costs? Probably not. Who benefits from the accellerated ETD? The terminal doesn't; on the contrary they will have additional costs. The benefit is harvested by the shipping line, which can steam slower to the next port and save on bunkers.

Check out the Ship Side Crane Bay Planner for shipping lines or for terminals , which allow for what-if scenarios to identify opportunities to accellerate ETD beyond the contractual commitments by adding more terminal resources, and thereby facilitating the terminal and the shipping line to share the pain and the gain!

Still using a whiteboard or an excel sheet to keep track of next week's incoming vessels and their assigned berthing location? Why not try our arl-shipping.com's Berthing Planner Light for free: Sign-up here and get a link for download in return.

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About ARL

Rotterdam headquartered IT developer with insight in the shipping & transport industry, adds value to the supply chain from its Siberian IT centre. Solutions are exclusively built on consulting terms to:

• shipping lines
• feeder and ferry operators
• cargo railways
• ship managers
• terminals
• cargo facilities
• agents
• forwarders and NVOs.

Areas of expertise include vessel chartering, scheduling & deployment, capacity management, equipment distribution, reefer monitoring, environmental, security and C-TPAT support, customer relationship management, freight quote, booking, documentation and yield management. For terminals and yards, berth, crane, resource planning and inventory management. For forwarders, NVOs and cargo facility operators, interaction with shippers, consignees and shipping lines, standard operating procedures (SOP), and cargo consolidation support. EDI/ ebXML and technical integration experience with leading technologies.

arl-shipping.com technology solutions for the transportation industry on license, hosted or pay-per-transaction plans.

Innovative and state-of-the-art IT tools working in synergy with existing IT platforms for marine terminals, depot & yards, shipping lines & transport providers, freight forwarders and equipment managers.

• berth and resources planning, yard crane dispatching, performance monitoring and alerting;
• transportation pricing, electronic bookings, interactive schedules publishing;
• container fleet management, sales, interchange processes;
• freight forwarders’ value-add services e-business, interaction with shippers and shipping lines and integration with portals;
• container yard inventory management;
• freight forwarder web-site contents and context framework with built-in e-business.