THE SA shipping market is one of the world’s prime growth areas for the US-based INTTRA multi-carrier transportation portal for shipping line scheduling and booking data. According to information released to FTW by the company, its INTTRA Desktop SI (shipping instruction) tool – which now has the new universal carrier access (UCA) feature – has found good market acceptance in SA, with a 627% growth in user numbers in the last year. It lists SA in the global top 10 user countries of its product. UCA enables any INTTRA-registered shipper or forwarder to transmit Shipping Instruction data to any carrier or NVO in the world, at no charge to either party. The launch of UCA follows a six-month pilot programme, which incorporated over 50 carriers and their customers and was designed to leverage the INTTRA platform to reach all carriers using a single, standard process.
