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TCC, The Containership Company, adds online schedule enquiries to their web-site using arl-shipping.com’s e-Schedule web platform.
COPENHAGEN, HONG KONG, August 16, 2010 – The TCC website, containership-company.com, now allows customers and business partners to query for suitable departures or arrivals, and to subscribe to updated email-schedules at their selected weekday and timing.
“Self-service, including online schedule enquiries, is a must for maintaining low costs as part of our no-frills approach to container shipping”, says Lars Jensen, director Marketing & IT from TCC. Lars, who has a past as director of youship.com, Maersk’s initiative for self-service liner services, continues: “Our online schedules are additionally available electronically for our booking partners consolidating cargo from smaller shippers and forwarders. Our partners can choose to re-publish the electronic schedules towards their own customers and use the schedules as a core for taking electronic bookings and giving online freight quotes”, he adds.
ARL’s CEO, Rene Bendt, supplements: “e-Schedule is capable of re-publishing and re-branding the core transport services offered by a shipping line like TCC, so TCC’s partner intermediaries can supplement the no-frills transport services offered by TCC with their own value-add services, like pick-up, delivery and multi-modal transport services, customs clearance, documentation and other supplementary services, leaving all players in the transport industry to focus on their core services and yet work seemingly together".
About TCC, The Containership Company
 TCC is a new container shipping line focusing on delivering no-frills, simple and innovative services to the market. TCC has pioneered a new service from Taicang, outside Shanghai, to Los Angeles – a service providing simple port to port transportation.
Already TCC has been nominated as one of only four finalists for the prestigious “Company of the Year” award in Lloyds List’s Global Awards. The nomination is on the grounds that TCC managed to successfully launch a container shipping company, with a new concept, at a time where the industry had the biggest downturn ever seen and global collective losses were approaching USD 20 billion.
Address:
Corporate Head Office tel.: +47 6781 8850
Strandveien 50
NO-1366 Lysaker
Norway
Contact: Lars Jensen, Director Marketing & IT
Phone +45 8888 6592,
email : lars.jensen@containership-company.com
About arl-shipping.com
Hong Kong based arl-shipping.com Limited provides innovative and configurable e-Services to the global transportation community. arl-shipping.com e-Services are developed, hosted and supported by ARL Consulting B.V.
Address:
arl-shipping.com Limited, Unit M8, Mezzanine Floor,
New Henry House, 10 Ice House Street, Central, Hong Kong
www.arl-shipping.com
Contact: Evgeny Drokov
Phone: +31 641 348080
Email: ed@arl-consulting.com
HONG KONG & ROTTERDAM, 17 September 2009 - Port of Tanjung Pelepas, PTP deploy suite of ARL tools for RTG & yard block management; the RTG Deployer, the RTG Dispatcher and the Yard Clash Predictor.
The RTG Deployer calculates the amount of RTGs needed on the yard for the next shifts based on the terminals set target productivity taking the planned and yet un-planned quay crane moves into account. The RTG Dispatcher produces optimized RTG dispatching instructions in real time assuring maximum utilization of all RTGs on the yard by using sophisticated math optimization algorithms. The Yard Clash Predictor concludes, if the currently planned sequence of quay crane moves will result in derived yard clashes, and prompts the terminal to re-plan and eliminate the yard clashes well in advance, securing an un-interrupted quay crane operation.
The optimization tools read the data updated in the Terminal Operating System and constantly apply optimization algorithms to offer the best possible planning and execution scenarios to the operator.
Better planning and optimized operational execution result in less fuel and maintenance expenses, minimal idle time for RTGs on the yard, no delays in quay crane, vessel, rail, or gate operations, and an optimal number of RTGs deployed even during peak times. Planning teams can deploy a low amount of RTGs, yet sufficient to perform all planned moves without delays.
PTP, South East Asia's fastest growing port, is strategically located at the southwest shoulder of Johor, Malaysia, with a minimum diversion time from the confluence of the main international shipping lanes. The port's location presents significant geographical advantages through its deep waters, sheltered bay and wide access channel. PTP is already the user of ARLs Berthing Planner and Resource Demand Manager.
From left: Chandran Raman Kutty, Operations Execution Manager (PTP), Mohd Fairuz Sukar, Senior RTG Dispatcher (PTP), Ren Bendt, CEO (ARL) and Thiagu Krishnan, Operations Execution Senior Manager (PTP). The PTP planners have increased the RTG productivity with more than 15% compared to an end-2008 performance benchmark.
The ARL tools have allowed PTP to try out some variants of deployment and management of the RTG fleet in a reliable and predictable manner, resulting in a significantly higher RTG productivity, eventually enabling the experienced and skilled planning teams to focus on exception management to a much higher degree, rather than being instrumental in executing the day-to-day planning and operations monitoring. The direct savings resulting from the increased productivity has paid back PTPs initial investment in a matter of weeks.
"We are happy to deliver these RTG & yard management optimization tools to PTP and highly appreciate the contribution PTP has made during the development phase. PTPs aggressive quest for continuous improvement of the terminal efficiency has been a major contributing factor for us now releasing these tools to the market" adds arl-shipping.com and ARL Consulting Director & CEO, Rene Bendt.
For additional information on the ARL RTG Deployer, the ARL RTG Dispatcher and the ARL Yard Clash Predictor, contact Evgeny Drokov or visit www.arl-shipping.com, where interested parties can register for an on-line presentation.
About arl-shipping.com
Hong Kong based arl-shipping.com Limited provides innovative and configurable e-Services to the global transportation community. arl-shipping.com e-Services are developed, hosted and supported by ARL Consulting B.V.
Address:
arl-shipping.com Limited, Unit M8, Mezzanine Floor,
New Henry House, 10 Ice House Street, Central,
Hong Kong
www.arl-shipping.com
About ARL Consulting
Rotterdam, Netherlands based ARL Consulting B.V. develops leading edge IT-solutions and offer IT-services to individual shipping & transport industry leaders.
Address:
ARL Consulting B.V.
Lichtenauerlaan 102-120
3062 ME Rotterdam
The Netherlands
www.arl-consulting.com
ARL Contact
Evgeny Drokov
Phone: +31 641 348080
Email: ed@arl-consulting.com
PTP Contact
Yasmin Kristensen, Chief Process Officer Phone: +607 504 2222
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FIRST VIETNAMESE NVO/FORWARDER DEPLOYING ARL’S E-YIELD SUITE
ARL’s Consulting newly released e-Yield Suite consisting of an online schedule, freight quote, booking and payment module now in use in Vietnam.
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, April 29, 2008 – Pacific Star Logistics, headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, recently deployed e-Schedule, the first module in ARL’s e-Yield Suite –ARL’s e-Business offering for the transport community- for their export services to Northern Europe.
Pacific Star’s Business Development Manager, Ms. Amy Ngoc, expects that her customers will get an improved service by being able to inquire on sailing schedules 24 hours a day via their website, with instant response and no waiting time. Additionally she hopes to profile her company as an efficient and attractive business partner both for their own customers and also towards shipping lines and NVOs looking for a representation in Vietnam.
As a ‘powered by arl-shipping.com’ solution the e-Yield Suite front-end is embedded into the transport providers own web-site allowing for selective offering of transport services aligned with the NVO’s market profile, co-branding own value adding transport services like insurance, customs clearance and document processing to the core transport product offered by the shipping lines.
“Additionally we expect that by promoting e-business our staff will gradually move away from doing transactional work with their hands, and instead invest the freed up time in truly adding value to our customers shipping process; to be pro-active and contribute to a smooth, efficient and cost effective transport process” adds Amy. “We expect that this is just the beginning. Eventually we will cover all trades lanes, export and import, and we hope also to offer our customers self-service freight quotes and maybe even online bookings or booking requests in the near future also from our website” she ends.
ARL’s e-Yield Suite is available in a number of deployment scenarios reflecting the characteristics of the transport provider, ranging from NVO/forwarders, milk-run exporters and import distributors, liner agents, short sea and deep sea shipping lines, rail and barge operators and multi-modal transport providers.
On ARL Consulting’s site for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com, interested transport providers can request an on-line presentation and sign-up for using individual modules from the platform. For additional information on ARL’s e-Yield Suite, contact Evgeny Drokov or visit arl-shipping.com.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARL RELEASES TERMINAL RESOURCE MANAGER FOR MARINE TERMINALS & PORTS
ARL Consulting releases planning tool for marine terminals keeping track of multiple resources on shore- and sea side depending on vessels ETA/ETD be it terminal facilities, equipment, people or event-driven resources.
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, March 20, 2008 – ARL Consulting announces the release of the ARL Terminal Resource Manager which support marine terminals in managing resources for port and terminal operations. The application can be used by terminals or ports of any size keeping track of a pool of resources assigned to arriving and departing vessels. The resources supported by the application can include both sea and shore side resources, be limited or unlimited, named or generic. Request demo or sign-up at ARL’s portal for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com.
ARL Terminal Resource Manager supports resources of different types as defining by the terminal or port user, like tugs, cranes, barges, inspectors, maintenance teams, stevedore gangs, authorities, crew buses and the like. The terminal or port operator can generate a resource usage report summarizing the use of resources forecasted over a period of time reflecting the ETA/ETDs of vessels in port. The system can export resource distribution and assignments to any external systems via XML feed, or to internal departments or external sub-contractors via e-mail or fax.
ARL Terminal Resource Manager is a desktop application which can read vessels’ schedule data from external sources like Terminal Operating System or any other XML-enabled data source and allows the operator to create a number of parallel scenarios of resource assignments shuffling with the ETA/ ETD of the scheduled incoming vessels in case of resource constraints via a zooming drag-and-drop user interface. The tool belongs to the ARL terminal efficiency applications family and supports also berthing planning, quay side unavailability zones, manual change of ships arrival and departure time, detection of berth clashes, and many more features.
On ARL Consulting’s site for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com, interested terminal or port operators can register for an on-line presentation. For additional information on ARL Terminal Resource Manager, contact Evgeny Drokov or visit arl-shipping.com.
Contact: Evgeny Drokov
Phone: +31 10 2827 928
Email: ed@arl-consulting.com
Web: arl-consulting.com
Postal address:
ARL Consulting B.V.
Haringvliet 541-543
NL-3011 ZP Rotterdam
The Netherlands
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ARL RELEASES YARD MINI-INVENTORY PLATFORM FOR YARDS, DEPOTS AND TERMINAL OPERATORS
ARL Consulting releases on-line IT platform which manages equipment inventory for medium sized yard, depots, repair and storage facilities and terminal operators.
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, February 13, 2008 – ARL Consulting announces the release of the ARL Yard mini-Inventory Platform which helps container yards to manage equipment on the yard. The platform can be used by medium sized yards, depots, repair and storage facilities, and terminals with a quay side. Request demo or sign-up at ARL’s portal for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com.
ARL Yard mini-Inventory Platform is an internet application, hosted by ARL Consulting and their partners, being accessible from a computer with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher connected to Internet. The application is secured, all data transfers are encrypted, and all users are passing authentication procedures. The platform is a closed system operating as the in-house inventory system for individual container yards containing with a public facility allowing the container yard to offer third-parties to query specific container status without logging in. This may be promoted by the individual container yard to their customers and haulage/ trucking service providers.
The platform requires no up-front software or hardware investments, only a moderate transaction fee per move handled, and allows for a quick start by a container yard: Sign-up, define reference data like operator names, define the physical container yard coordinates and create user’s accounts – that’s it, and the container yard inventory is managed online.
The Yard mini-Inventory Platform support both that the container is online in the back-office and at gates and other front-office locations, and it supports off-line mode of working, like printing of gate pick-up lists and load lists, and it produces a monthly move list per container operator, which can be used as invoice documentation.
On ARL Consulting’s site for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com, interested containers yards can register for an on-line presentation. For additional information on ARL Yard mini-Inventory Platform, contact Evgeny Drokov or visit arl-shipping.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARL RELEASES E-QUOTE PLATFORM FOR TRANSPORT PROVIDERS
ARL Consulting releases e-Quote web platform which allows transport providers to create, maintain, and publish their freight quotes for customers inquires on-line.
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, October 23, 2007 – ARL Consulting announces the release of their ARL e-Quote Platform, which allows transport providers to give freight quotes along with schedules on-line to their customers and partners. The ARL e-Quote Platform is the second module after ARL e-Schedule in a series of commercial e-business offerings on the arl-shipping.com portal, building up to a full e-Yield solution. The platform can be requested from ARL’s portal for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com.
ARL e-Quote Platform is suitable for deep sea shipping lines, short sea container, trailer, ro-ro or ferry services, multi-modal operators, barge & rail link, NVOs, transport agents and LCL transport companies, who wish to offer self-service e-services to their customers.
The freight quotes are provided online by the e-Quote engine in response to the customer’s specific requirements, allowing the transport provider to market differentiated prices for different transit time or handling service levels, reflecting different cost patterns like transport vehicle bunkers consumption, or multi-modal combinations like sea-air versus sea-sea, offered in the same transport corridor.
Relevant surcharges are added and made visible to the customer requesting a freight quote; quotes are e-mailed to the customer upon request and stored for the transport provider to follow-up on. If the transport provider offers door-door services, pick-up and delivery costs are added to the freight quote.
Freight quotes are made available for on-line queries on the transport provider’s own web-site powered by the arl-shipping.com e-Quote engine. ARL e-Quote Platform is a web application with strong security, authentication, and encrypted data exchange requiring internet connection and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher from the transport provider as well as their customers.
On ARL Consulting’s portal for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com, interested transport providers can request an on-line demonstration and sign-up for using the solution. For additional information on ARL e-Quote Platform, contact Evgeny Drokov or visit arl-shipping.com.
ARL Consulting, a Rotterdam headquartered IT developer with insight in the shipping & transport industry, adds value to the supply chain from its Siberian IT centre. Solutions are hosted on the
arl-shipping.com portal, provided on license terms, or exclusively built on consulting terms to transportation companies on the sea, road, rail or inland waters, to 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.
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ARL RELEASES E-SCHEDULE PLATFORM FOR TRANSPORT PROVIDERS
ARL Consulting releases e-Schedule web platform which allows transport providers to create, manage, and publish their services’ schedules for customers inquires on-line.
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, October 9, 2007 – ARL Consulting announces the release of their ARL e-Schedule Platform which automatically creates a repetitive schedule from parameters describing the transport providers service network. ARL e-Schedule allows transport users to inquire for schedules to match departure or arrival requirements. The ARL e-Schedule Platform is the first in a series of commercial e-business offerings on arl-shipping.com. The platform can be requested from ARL’s portal for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com.
ARL e-Schedule Platform is suitable for transport providers who offer a regular transport service between service points and need to market their arrival and departure schedules to their customers and partners on-line or via a subscription.
The schedule is built automatically based on weekly or multi-weekly patterns, start- and end-date, service points in the network, transit times and closing & availability times. Departure and arrival may include door-to-door pick-up and delivery. Generated schedule is available for on-line queries on the transport provider’s own web-site powered by the arl-shipping.com e-Schedule engine. The platform is capable of maintaining schedules for deep- and short-sea shipping lines, rail and barge operators, trucking companies, NVOs and transport agents.
ARL e-Schedule is a web application with strong security, authentication, and encrypted data exchange requiring internet connection and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.
On ARL Consulting’s site for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com, interested transport providers can request an on-line presentation and sign-up for using the solution. For additional information on ARL e-Schedule Platform, contact Evgeny Drokov or visit arl-shipping.com.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARL RELEASES BERTHING OPTIMIZATION TOOL FOR CONTAINER TERMINALS
ARL Consulting releases an add-on module for Terminal Operating Systems, which optimizes vessels positioning on a berth and decrease container handling equipment milage on the yard.
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS, June 7, 2007 – ARL Consulting announces the release of the ARL Berthing Optimization Tool which calculates optimal vessels’ position on a berth, minimizing mileage of container handling equipment (CHE) on the yard. The tool can be deployed at marine terminals with a busy quay side, high CHE fuel costs, and equipped with a Terminal Operating System (TOS). The tool can be requested from ARL’s portal for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com.
ARL Berthing Optimization Tool reads yard and vessels data from the TOS and allows the operator to create a number of scenarios of vessels’ positioning by a zooming drag-and-drop interface. The tool handles quay unavailability zones, supports manual change of ships arrival and departure time, manual proforma vessel calls, and detection of berth clashes. At any time operator can see CHE mileage calculation for both current and ideal scenarios.
The architecture of the tool is TOS-safe: It works as a desktop application without producing any additional load on the TOS, neither affecting its performance and stability. ARL Berthing Optimization Tool is available for selected TOSs, however the solution architecture allows it to be connected to any XML-data source.
On ARL Consulting’s site for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com, interested terminals can request the tool deployed or register for an on-line presentation. For additional information on ARL Berthing Optimization tool, contact Evgeny Drokov or visit arl-shipping.com.
About ARL Consulting
ARL Consulting is a Rotterdam headquartered IT developer with insight in the shipping & transport industry. From its Siberian IT centre, medium-size and large, scalable IT solutions are delivered to clients, supporting vessel, capacity and container fleet management, operational excellence and optimization, documentation and process support, and customer & relationship management.
Since 2007 tools for the shipping & transport industry and container terminals, are provided on licensing terms or as hosted solutions on the arl-shipping.com portal. Solutions offered include container terminal berth, quay crane and yard planning, RTG deployment planning & dispatching, container sales & container interchange process support, export & import forwarders interaction with shippers and shipping lines, including integration to leading shipping line portals, container yard inventory management, maintenance of standard operating procedures (SOP), transport vehicle capacity management & pricing, electronic bookings and multi-modal transportation management.
Contact: Evgeny Drokov
Phone: +31 10 2827 928
Email: ed@arl-consulting.com
Web: arl-consulting.com
Postal address:
ARL Consulting B.V.
Haringvliet 541-543
NL-3011 ZP Rotterdam
The Netherlands
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