Liezel du Toit Senior Director Maersk Line
quoteleft We are very excited that our collaboration with CargoSphere has allowed us to take this important step in making it easier for our customers. Our customers should be spending time on their business, not on updating our rates in their systems! quoteright
Carsten Frank Olsen Senior Director and Global Head of eCommerce Maersk Line
quoteleft Our customers require a faster and simpler way to manage freight rates and CargoSphere is delivering the advanced technology to achieve this. quoteright
Henning Schleyerbach Senior Dr. Sales & Service Processes Hapag-Lloyd
quoteleft We are committed to improving efficiency for our customers and ourselves, and this joint Hapag-Lloyd/CargoSphere integration achievement is an important contribution to the industry as it improves timeliness and accuracy. quoteright
Chris Wilson President CaroTrans
quoteleft It was a pleasure working with CargoSphere’s team who facilitated a fast and easy implementation. Providing digital connectivity helps our customers respond faster and deliver a better customer experience. quoteright
Renato Silva Head of Customer Experience Safmarine
quoteleft The addition of Safmarine Spot on CargoSphere expands our customers’ freight rate options delivering a richer offering for their supply chain needs. CargoSphere has demonstrated strength in innovation and technology and offers a tremendous distribution opportunity. quoteright
31 Jul, 2017

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Survey Shows Universal Interest in Direct Ocean Carrier Feed of Confidential Rates

— 92% of the respondents said a direct ocean carrier data feed would be a competitive service advantage —

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, July 31, 2017 – CargoSphere, the leading provider of frictionless rate distribution and cloud-based global freight rate management, today publishes the results of its original research that was developed to determine what value the global NVO and forwarding (FF) community puts on receiving a direct, Web-based feed of their negotiated rates from their ocean carriers.

In 2016, CargoSphere commissioned Drewry to define the cost burden to the global freight forwarding community to find or receive and process/analyze ocean freight buy rates. It was determined the annual labor cost is a whopping $500 million.  This acknowledgement of the financial strain of processing frequently changing ocean carrier rates highlights the need for a more efficient digital framework for container shipping rate management and distribution.

This survey investigates the various reasons and benefits for automating rate management and distribution and streamlining this process with a direct ocean carrier feed.  

Demographics
The survey was sent out in late June 2017 to logistics providers in the ocean-container shipping industry.  Key highlights on the respondents:

  • Came from 13 countries and represented over 6.5 million annual TEU of container volume
  • Worked in businesses that focus on all major shipping areas of the world (Asia – 78%; North America – 75%; Europe – 70%; South America – 48%; Oceania – 34%; Africa – 33%)
  • Were primarily freight forwarders (77%) and/or NVOs (59%)
  • Were of all sizes (Small – 11%; Medium – 48%; Large – 41%)
  • Were from all corporate roles (Executive – 36%; Manager – 47%; Staff – 17%)

Conclusions
The most important conclusion of the survey is that there is near-universal interest from the respondents in the electronic receipt of confidential negotiated ocean carrier rates.  The survey provides great confidence in this conclusion because of user responses to 2 different questions:

  • A response of “Yes” from 92% of the respondents when asked “Would a direct data feed from your carriers with your confidential ocean pricing be a competitive service advantage?”
  • When asked to rank the value to their company of streamlining the ocean pricing process (on a scale of 1 to 10 with “1” being “Little Value”, “5” being “Moderate Value” and “10” being “Invaluable”), 25% of respondents selected ‘10’ (invaluable) and 92% selected ‘5’ (moderate) or higher.

Carriers can be confident that forwarders will be eager recipients of this data when they are able to improve their distribution technologies.

Benefits
The benefits that a majority of the responding forwarders expect from this new technology include:

Efficiency-related:

  • Time savings for sales and operations staff (91% of respondents)
  • Increased data accuracy of buy rates (70% of respondents)
  • Global offices having access to accurate timely rates (67% of respondents)
  • Faster reconciliation of carrier invoices (52% of respondents)

Sales/profitability-related:

  • Faster quoting to customers (89% of respondents)
  • Increase in customer satisfaction (67% of respondents)
  • More frequent selection of optimal booking carrier (66% of respondents)
  • Ability to share rates in real-time with agent partners (66% of respondents)

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About CargoSphere
The CargoSphere rate technology platform delivers frictionless rate distribution and networking.

Cloud-based, systematized contract and rate management provides the CargoSphere user community with accurate and collaborative rate distribution, sharing, comparison and quoting, as well as the ability to self-publish FMC tariffs. The CargoSphere Rate Mesh connects shipping partners for seamless, confidential rate collaboration in real-time to simplify rate communication and provide a faster, more effective way to receive and distribute freight rates.

During these competitive times, CargoSphere offers users significant productivity improvements from CargoSphere’s Cloud technology due to increased data accuracy and the ease associated with a systematized database with a single source of truth.

For more information, visit www.cargosphere.com
Contact CargoSphere, click here.
CargoSphere explained, Frank the Forwarder Video

Contact:  CKL Communications, Carol Lerner, 973.635.6923, ckl.communications@gmail.com

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