Introduction

A potential customer, who wants to ship a cargo, can use different ways to find a freight forwarder. It is not a secret, that the most convenient way of searching for a necessary company is Internet. As a result, a lot of logistics companies all over the world produce Web-sites, investing funds for its promotion.

SeaRates software programmers proposed a simple way of dominance in Internet among numerous sites of sea transport companies.

SeaRates project rating

Analyzing the situation, the project programmers decided to create an Internet-platform, where they will set in motion information resources of companies in all ports of the world. Nowadays, our web-resource is in the top ten of the most popular sites in the world among companies working in the container shipment market.

There is a chart below to review data, where tendencies of development and promotion of our Internet project and its rating relatively to other companies are shown.

Being in the same line with sites of major shipping lines with branches all over the world, our project successfully becomes popular.

• average annual rates of growth are 15-20%
• it is necessary to take into account that similar projects of western shipping companies have been developing for more than 5 years;
• project costs of shipping lines estimate not tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands USD.
• according to the information as for March, 1 2008, 2 mln. users are registered at the SeaRates system.

Tens of thousands companies use our site as a working instrument on a daily basis to receive necessary reference information. Since the beginning of 2008 our programmers have been updating all information.

Gain profit with SeaRates!

The basic idea of the SeaRates project is the main concept of its promotion providing its take-up in Internet, videlicet, system programmers are independent forwarding companies all over the world, who are not competitors in the container shipment market. Operating principle is based on the territorial franchise of the companies, participating in the project, which provide exclusive service at the definite sea port (container terminal).

A company buying SeaRates “Territorial franchise has the following advantages:

• all inquires connected with container shipment in your region are sent exclusively to your company;
• your company advertising at Searates site in your country and your port;
• support and design of your own high-tec web-resources with further integration additional services: tracking system, harborage monitoring system in the real-time operation mode (AIS) and other programs, developed to attract new users to your service.
• developed Internet resources increase not only their own but and your company’s rating;
• you can search for partners in other parts of the world;
• thousands of Internet users who are looking for reliable freight forwarder will see the name of your company