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Publish Date : 05-Jul-2016

Gemini Shippers Group has made an announcement on the inauguration of its SOLAS input portal intended for facilitating its member entities with a single-stop solution to dispatch SOLAS weight messages to a range of carrier partners.

With the launch of the free service, shippers have been offered with an access to a platform to feed weight information to be transmitted to carriers with provisions for a confirmation of transmittance to the carrier via email.

The newly launched service, which is being offered for free, will facilitate the member companies to get proofs of the transmission on their custom homepage.

Addressing the gathering at the launch event, President and CEO of the association Sara Mayes stated, We are pleased to be able to offer this service to shippers without cost. We know that many shippers face significant challenges in their supply chain and we are pleased to be able to offer this portal for companies to use an as a one stop shop for sending their SOLAS weight into to their carrier partners.

Gemini Shippers Group, based at Atlanta in Georgia, is focused for sustained expansion of its service offerings for its affiliates.

The Gemini Shippers Group COO Ken OBrien disclosed, We are committed to providing our member companies a host of value added services above and beyond our strong ocean freight procurement. We continue to have a strong focus on IT investment and the creation of tools and analytic solutions to help our member run their supply chains more efficiently.

IT Head Jonathan Shorts observed, We will continue to add carriers to the SOLAS input tool as they are ready to integrate with our infrastructure and will be rolling our further enhancements for our members in the coming months. In phase one of the project we will launch 15 carriers over the 4th of July weekend.

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