FREIGHT EXCHANGE FIRM GLOMAP BROADENS ONLINE SERVICES

FREIGHT EXCHANGE FIRM GLOMAP BROADENS ONLINE SERVICES    GloMaP.com AG, the ocean freight exchange provider based in Germany, has broadened the scope of its activities, added software services and transport modes.
   The company, initially focused on an online exchange for spot ocean shipments, said it now caters for contracts for a large number of shipments, often on a six-month or annual basis, between shipper and carriers. Carriers can be shipowners, agents or forwarding companies.
   These contracts are now handled in customer-specific, Internet-based platforms. These platforms are closed areas, and only invited carriers learn about these tenders, GloMaP.com said.
   The company sets up customized individual transport platforms for shippers and for carriers. “Every big company can use its individual trading process on its own platform and does not need to adapt to rules of independent Internet marketplaces,” GloMaP.com said. The company said that a growing number of national and international shippers, including Germany’s Otto Versand and Stahlwerke Bremen GmbH, have used these “electronic, personalized ways of negotiation.”
   Two months ago, GloMaP.com also added the air and land transport modes to its exchange, said Markus Giesenkirchen, managing director of the company.
   Like other dot-coms, GloMaP.com has also become a software provider. It said that it now designs and completes individual software solutions for freight management as an application service provider, transferring its experience of running Internet marketplaces to customers.
   GloMaP.com started its Internet marketplace in June 2000 and said about 220,000 TEUs have been posted on its site since.