Dynamic Ocean, a next-generation visibility solution, redefines end-to-end management for international ocean shipments. The solution integrates advanced document management capabilities, robust collaboration features, and support for bookings, with superior end-to-end real-time tracking. Benefits of Dynamic Ocean include an expedited flow of goods through busy ports—significantly reducing detention and demurrage costs and improved customer satisfaction.
Dynamic Ocean covers 99% of global container traffic and more than 750 ports, providing unprecedented visibility into ocean shipments. Comprehensive APIs enable data sharing between Dynamic Ocean and other critical shipper systems including TMS and ERP platforms.
Major product capabilities include:
- Advanced document management and collaboration features help shippers manage the complex and copious documentation requirements of international shipping, and collaborate with all parties involved in a container move.
- Real-time messaging tools organized around shipments and workflows replace emails and manual processes.
- Automated templates trigger tasks, set permissions, and prepare documentation, including purchase orders, bills of lading, courier instructions and packing lists, among many others.
- Trading partners can collaborate in a secure cloud-based digital hub that contains all critical international shipping documents.
- Superior tracking capabilities leapfrog first-generation screen-scraping techniques to capture more data via multiple sources and with far greater accuracy. Dynamic Ocean sources data from:
- Direct integrations via EDI 315 and APIs with all of the major ocean carriers
- Real-time Automatic Identification System (AIS) data through vessel transponders
- Schedule data across 270,000 ocean lanes, 120 carriers, and 3000+ services
- Terminal data across 100% of terminals in North America and major terminals in Europe
- Dray Carrier Integrations for true multimodal connectivity
- Visibility into bookings via custom APIs with existing transportation management systems (TMS).
- True end-to-end tracking that links ocean to rail, air, over-the-road and yard.
- Deeper insights and analytics with ocean-specific reporting on on-time performance, cycle and transit times, detention and demurrage, and more.
