Contact Information: Press Contact - Europe: Mr David Tarizzo +44 20 8816 8850 Press Contact - North America: Mr Dimitrios Sogas +1 650 703 1042
Linescape Launches a Free and Independent Ocean Container Schedule Search Engine
Innovative, Powerful Tool Reveals Optimum Container Shipping Schedules Using Advanced Features and Industry's Broadest Database
| Source: Linescape
BURLINGAME, CA--(Marketwire - May 3, 2009) - Linescape announced today the launch of its
free, independent search engine for finding and comparing routes and
schedules for shipping ocean containers. Linescape brings to users the only
comprehensive and impartial overview of the routes and schedules of the
world's carriers, of all sizes, thus giving shippers and forwarders the
freedom and ease to find the carrier with the lowest cost or the best
schedule for any particular shipment. Linescape's powerful search engine
leverages Web 2.0 technology to simplify sorting through 6 million voyages
to 3,000 ports on over 100 shipping lines, and with more added each week.
In today's economic climate, optimized logistics and supply chain
functionality is critical for success. It is crucial that shippers and
forwarders know all of the options they have in order to get the best price
and delivery times for shipping goods to their customers. Equally, shipping
lines need a place to bring their offerings to the attention of shippers
and forwarders. Linescape provides the perfect market place for buyers and
sellers to meet: www.linescape.com.
"We studied the container shipping market and discovered that freight rates
can vary by 50% and transit times by 75% on the same route. Choosing the
wrong carrier will waste time or waste money or both," said co-founder
Dimitrios Sogas. "The biggest problem has always been the difficulty in
finding which carriers sail on which routes; many shippers and forwarders
do not even know whom to call. They usually contact only familiar carriers
for quotations and therefore often miss out on better options that they do
not even know exist, because they can't find them."
"Linescape is the answer to the fundamental question, 'Whom should I call
for a quotation?'" according to co-founder David Tarizzo. "Linescape finds
you alternatives and saves you time, like an Expedia for the container
shipping industry, which in the end will save time and money for shippers
and forwarders everywhere."
Linescape has introduced several advanced features unique to its search
engine, including an innovative "Route Planner" that presents users with a
matrix of all the possible port combinations between two geographical areas
and which carriers serve those routes. This very powerful and easy to use
feature will simplify one of the most difficult tasks of a user -- trying
to choose the best possible origin and destination ports. A unique aspect
of the website is the visibility of the number of transhipments in a
journey, allowing a user to balance journey times with numbers of tranships
to keep risks of delay to a minimum. Another advanced feature is the
innovative "Multiple Lines" feature, whereby users are able to
automatically build routes via transhipments, even between two unrelated
shipping lines.
About Linescape
Linescape is a leading online provider of comprehensive ocean container
shipping schedules for shippers and freight forwarders worldwide.
Headquartered in Burlingame, California, Linescape was created in 2008 by a
team of professionals who have spent many years in industries that require
the shipping of goods to customers all over the world. The company is not
affiliated with any carrier, which enables it to act with independence
toward all shipping lines, shippers and forwarders. For more information,
visit www.linescape.com.