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.

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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