Help your staff, partners, and customers to manage vessel operations remotely in these challenging times. World of Ports and PortXchange temporarily provide free-of-charge log-ins to support the shipping industry during this crisis.
The COVID-19 crisis is creating challenging times for the shipping industry when scheduling port calls remotely. We recognize that getting the right information, communicating updates to many different stakeholders and colleagues may become more challenging when your teams are working remotely.
At PortXchange and Inchcape World of Ports, we want to play our part in getting through this crisis. Therefore we have set up a special initiative: during the COVID-19 crisis agencies and terminals will get free-of-charge access to part of the PortXchange software to schedule port calls and share them directly with their port community, and now based on the master data supplied by Inchcape World of Ports to make this offer available in almost 4.500 ports worldwide.
In the first phase this solution is in particular meant for terminals and agencies. By the end of April, we will also welcome carriers, ports, and (nautical) services. We offer this solution free of charge until at least the 1st of August 2020.
About Inchcape World of Ports
4,500 PORTS COVERED
- Inchcape – World of Ports now features over 4,500 ports globally covering Tanker, Dry bulk, Cruise, General Cargo and Container terminals, giving us unrivalled data coverage for all key locations down to berth level.
PROPRIETARY NETWORK
- World of Ports is fully utilises by the Inchcape Shipping Services global network of agents, allowing us to collect and update general port information, parameters and restrictions for 36,000 berths globally.
VERIFICATION TEAM
- World of Ports has large centralised data team that closely works with the Agents network to provide a two way verification process before data is fully substantiated and published.
About PortXchange
At PortXchange we are committed to Port Call Optimization. PortXchange offers a trade-agnostic data exchange platform and applications for information exchanges between Ports, Shipping Lines, and Service Providers, based on international standards. Starting at Port of Rotterdam, the PortXchange platform is now used in ports across Europe, UK, and the US. It is our aim and vocation to support the shipping industry in enabling just-in-time sailing and reducing emissions for every port call.