A lot of data that is used to ship goods is useful data to re-use in later stages of the supply chain, in this case the sending and receiving of transport instructions and the planning of logistic processes. NxtPort provides solutions to facilitate this re-use. These solutions can help your business slim down on administrative time and costs.

Container weight is useful info for a lot of partners in the chain. Instead of passing it on between each other, we provide a service to implement this data directly into your systems.

A lot of data that is used to ship goods is useful data to re-use in later stages of the supply chain, in this case the declaration of goods to customs. NxtPort provides solutions to facilitate this re-use. These solutions can help your business slim down on administrative time and costs.

To get an overview of what the status is of specific goods that are being transported is difficult nowadays. Information is scattered around the supply chain, which makes it hard to gather, let alone to implement it in your own systems. With this business case, NxtPort provides an easy solution.

Being a part of the supply chain involved in delivering goods overseas involves a lot of data sharing. In many cases, master data is used throughout multiple stages in the supply chain. NxtPort collects this master data and makes it available for everyone who is supposed to have access to these data.

In order for a container to be released from a terminal, 3 'green lights' are required. One of those green lights is the confirmation of customs that the container can be released. NxtPort will provide a way to consult this status or to have this status pushed to you.

Easy access to a container's last known tare weight

In the process of transporting goods overseas, the principal needs to send out transport instructions to one or more transport companies. NxtPort wants to standardize these instructions between all parties, resulting in significant gains in time and costs.

Whenever a container declared for export in the hinterland arrives at the terminal, the terminal operator has to notify Customs authorities of this event. NxtPort has worked out a solution to facilitate this process.

Every time a ship is loaded and leaves the port, the law requires the different ship's agents to send in a report on what goods have left the port to customs. NxtPort will help them automate these messages.

The Next Mode of Transport API allows forwarders, hinterland operators and beneficial cargo owners to submit information on the Next Mode of Transport of import containers. NxtPort passes that information along to the terminal, who can use it to optimize yard planning.

Transport companies are asked to do a pre-announcement every time they pick up goods from a terminal. NxtPort wants to standardize the way these pre-announcements take place, regardless of which terminal you are visiting.

The awareness that the nautical chain needs to be considered as a whole is growing. Therefore, NxtPort is working on solutions to improve the efficiencies between all players in the chain instead of only between players that are connected in the chain. A good example of such a solution is a service that allows to better predict ETA's and share ATA's of ships.

The Bulkchain initiative was launched on request by the breakbulk community in order to digitise the existing administrative collaborative processes.