Solutions For The Shipping Industry

Port management, shipping, and transportation are all concerned with the movement of goods from one point to another, and involves an enormous amount of data changing hands. Data Integration Suite can help you get a handle on your data exchange and ensure your customers' satisfaction.

See how DataDirect has enabled successful data exchange within the logistics industry:

Customer Success Stories:

Port of Dover: Clearing the Way to Customs Harmonization
The Port of Dover employs Data Integration Suite to transform new EDI messaging formats for customs clearance being introduced across the European Union.

How OOCL Makes Progress
DataDirect Connect for .NET is the industry’s only ADO.NET data provider with a 100% managed code architecture that supports the Microsoft .NET framework, delivering secure, high-performance data connectivity. OOCL needed high-performance database drivers on Windows 2003 to access its Sybase ASE database server on HPUX. The company tested the DataDirect .NET drivers’ and the result was approximately 50% performance gain.

ECN Group: Improving Profits in Helping Companies Communicate Electronically
DataDirect XML Converters with the Stylus Studio IDE met the criteria of Java and flat file data support; quality service and support was a deciding factor in the final analysis.

Industry News:

Data Integration Suite Facilitates EU SAD Harmonization Compliance
Data Integration Suite's standards–based development environment and highly scalable integration-processing engine delivers easy access to crucial information for the freight, import/export, logistics and shipping sectors.

Resources:

Data Integration Suite Supports IATA Cargo-IMP EDI Standard
Jointly developed by IATA, its member airlines and the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), Cargo-IMP is the official message source for specifications concerning space allocation, air waybill, flight manifest, accounting, status, discrepancy, embargo, customs, CASS billing, dangerous goods, allotments and surface transportation. Cargo-IMP also includes encoding and decoding lists of all approved codes and abbreviations. Data Integration Suite supports all message types in the IATA Cargo-IMP Manual 27th Edition.