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p43-51.qxd 09/05/2006 12:22 Page 8 TECHNOLOGY NEWS Sea of confusion A global survey of oil and bulk shipping carriers by scheduling software specialist, Magenta Technology, revealed a sector struggling to keep pace with an increasingly dynamic and regulated global trade environment. Among the findings were:- • Tankers and bulk carriers still reliant on pen and paper/Excel spreadsheets to schedule multi billion dollar cargoes across their fleets. • Dry and wet bulk shipping drowning in red tape and the rising pressures of global trade. • Inefficiencies potentially having knock-on effect in the pricing of goods and raw materials. Over half (56%) of fleet chartering and scheduling managers working in the sector were spending between two to three days per week scheduling and re-scheduling their fleet because of changes in orders, port events and weather conditions. The Magenta survey highlighted an industry in serious need of modernisation as 50% of the industry still relied on Excel spreadsheets and pen and paper to plan logistics around their fleets. This industry - responsible for more than 40% of world global trade - was seen to be in marked contrast to the highly sophisticated air freight and truck sectors which are pioneering on-demand delivery of goods and raw materials. Jonathan Himoff, Magenta Technology's ceo, said: "Until recently simple scheduling software or pen and paper proved to work fine for oil and bulk products shipping. But with market situation changing quickly and unpredictably and with increasing pressure from customer demands, fleet chartering and scheduling managers face the need of getting new generation of decisionmaking tools - the ones to lower costs, deal with delays and under utilisation of vessels and other assets and help them to make better decisions faster." In investigating the scheduling concerns and difficulties of oil and bulk carriers, the survey showed that 67% of those questioned believed that scheduling was becoming more difficult. The majority of respondents said that their scheduling processes and tools were not as time-efficient and sophisticated as they would like and, combined with external forces such as ever-changing industry regulations and increasing demand from suppliers, fleet scheduling was becoming even more difficult. Every week, fleet chartering and scheduling managers have to re-plan routes due to the requirements of individual cargo orders and the survey revealed that some shipping companies have over 20 different cargoes per week that require other vessels to be re-scheduled. With the 67% of the shipping companies surveyed taking between one and seven days to reschedule their fleets for every order change, the inefficiencies in present scheduling systems became clear. When our clients realise the value of process outsourcing, they let go Contracting out business processes is rarely as tough a decision as it seems... when the activity is being taken on by real experts. Drewry could save your business up to 60% in the short term and 70% on an ongoing basis... if you’re prepared to let go of some of your key business processes. You may already know Drewry for our commercial consultancy, specialist technical services, maritime research reports and shipping publications. Now, through Process Outsourcing, we can offer you... So if you would like better quality at substantially lower cost in key processes or IT functions, contact Drewry’s Process Outsourcing unit Drewry Maritime Services (Pvt) Limited, H-015, Ridgewood Estate DLf Phase IV, New Delhi, India 122002 Tel:+91 124 504 5312 India +44 207 538 0191 UK e-mail: dms@drewry.co.uk Independent Maritime Advice Database development and maintenance Documentation management Software development Contact/call forwarding Accounting and book-keeping And more... tailored to your needs as a shipping organisation. This specialist unit is based in Gurgaon in India and is staffed with experts in all the major shipping sectors, as well as in IT and BPO functions. TankerOperator May/June 2006 page 50
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