Dear Sirs, Times in shipping and transportation are changing, development is unpredictable fast and the past or current means to do business may not be the same in the future: The maritime and transport industry is facing e-commerce. Since May this year, GloMaP.com of Hamburg, Germany is offering with www.glomap.com an online marketplace and seafreight exchange for all parties in the maritime chartering and transportation industry. GloMaP.com is changing the landscape in which traditional shipping and transportation business is done: Trading of cargoes / shipments in an online environment. Within the first few months of GloMaP, already some 1.800 customers registered with GloMaP.com, some 800 cargoes were placed on www.glomap.com and carriers?, agents? and brokers? quotations and bids were given for more than 60% of all the cargoes shown on www.glomap.com. In this very moment, there are some 2.300 TEU, some 220.000 mt and 15.000 cbm of bulk cargoes placed on the platform. All parties in shipping and transportation - such as Shipowners, Shipbrokers and Agents, Freight Forwarders, Importers and Exporters - can conduct business in form of auctions, tenders, transactions and negotiations through the Internet and GloMaP.com. Shippers can indicate their needs for shipments, the potential movements of cargoes from and to with all details necessary for the tender allowing the carrying side to bid for the respective cargoes within a certain time period set by the shipper. GloMaP.com is an additional sales channel for all parties. The GloMaP.com exchange www.glomap.com offers a cometogether and the fixing of main terms. It is a very convenient and efficient way to conduct further business. The advantage of an global market place like www.glomap.com is its global approach: Parties working on www.glomap.com do benefit from the creation of new international relationships. And additionally: GloMaP.com is simply saving and reducing the working time of the employees engaged in the booking process. And with the possibility to set preferences, carriers have a valuable chance to customize the GloMaP.com-system following their specific needs. Registration is free of charge and without any obligation. There are no access or membership fees and no additional software is necessary. GloMaP.com is an open and unbiased market connecting businesses all over the world. GloMaP.com is not owned or associated with any shipping line, broker, forwarder or manufacturer and is, therefore, in a position to act independently maximizing the benefits for all parties involved. To see for yourself whether GloMap.com can be beneficial for your business, we kindly ask you to have a look at www.glomap.com. Access to the marketplace will be given to all parties once they register - again, registration is without any obligation on your part and free of charge. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact us via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call us under + 49 40 46 00 48 - 0. Yours faithfully GloMaP.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
