We’re going to need a bigger ship
It occurred to me that we have been unusually hushed the past few quarters. When we launched in the summer of 2015 within the next 12 months, we had a series of significant product updates including LCL, Reefers, Haz and real-time b/l amend and share, lots of press (WSJ, The Economist, BBC & Wired Magazine) and a soft launch in the USA.
Although we have been unvocal I can assure you we have been busy and am delighted to share with you today some of the stuff we have been working on including a brand new complimentary product suite
Firstly allow me to reiterate Kontainers mission and positioning in this new world of digital shipping that we are starting to see…
Kontainers is the easiest and fastest way to book and manage ocean shipments digitally. We have worked hard for years now to automate the entire process (including trucking,customs and documentation) .Currently we serve British and American exporters with importers and new countries coming very soon indeed. We are obsessed with simplicity and making our customers lives easier whilst helping them improve their business (more on that later)
Kontainers look, feel and ease of use has struck a cord from large ocean carriers to large BCO Clients as the ocean-centric platform. To maximise this impact, we have been concentrating a significant amount of our resources on enabling full multi-tenancy architecture and building out an open API to allow anybody to connect to us for white label solutions, rates, schedule’s or booking data (for a start)
We have also looked to expand our footprint globally.In China where we will have an exciting product launch in the next quarter, Our partnership is with one of the largest players in that market and will help Kontainers deploy our solutions to a captive audience of importers and exporters. We have also looked to fast track our USA Expansion and will be signing a close tie-up with a major player that manages hundreds of thousands of containers per year in the USA Market. In Europe, we will continue to work closely with industry leaders to deploy our solutions to power some market leading platforms
At the same time, we will unveil significant new features and products to ensure Kontainers stays at the cutting edge of online oceanfreight software
To highlight two compelling examples, we have taken our current dashboard and added significant new features. Besides glancing at all your orders in one place with real-time updates, we will provide a series of customisable reports in chart format to measure critical economic indicators of your business such as on time ETA or shipment per region, to name but a few (there are 20 to choose from the start)
We are also introducing a deep messaging layer within the platform which allows you to speak to your client from within the app (on any internet enabled device).There is also the ability to tie in deals, locks in freight rates and repeat regular orders for long periods of time with one click. Our partner on this is a financial institution whose system will allow us to offer various features such as financing the order or hedging freight rates for the duration of a contract
To finish …Ocean shipping is an essential service for companies that import and export worldwide, over the past decade we have seen almost every other key service migrate online with intelligent cloud solutions, for example, salesforce, dropbox,office365 and online banking. Ocean shipping is now on a direct course at an ever increasing speed to move online as well -because customers demand it … Kontainers will continue to be a core part of the move online in the year’s ahead
Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the next quarter ….
