CC&S News
CC&S news and announcements. Please be sure to check back regularly for updates.
CC&S selected as a 2009 Global Forum Innovator Winner
From Infodev's website - June 2, 2009
Following a call for candidates in March for the Global Innovators 2009 contest, infoDev is pleased to announce that it has selected eleven entrepreneurs whose success stories will be highlighted at infoDev's 3rd Global Forum on Innovation & Entrepreneurship in October 2009.
Container Consultants & Systems is providing some of the most sophisticated shipping logistics software available. Their company vision of making transport more affordable for everyone is being accomplished through their web-based planning software that allows companies to reduce the cost of international trade. Sebastian Mendoza and his team are well on their way to becoming a global brand for a global age.
Aconcagua Ventures invests in CC&S
From CC&S Press Room - May 15, 2009.
Aconcagua Ventures, a high-tech venture capital firm and co-founders of Core Security, have invested in CC&S. This investment will assist CC&S's team to realize their vision of creating a platform to assist container operating companies in the management of empty container flows and cost reduction through the 'compete and share' concept.
CC&S' CEO Harm Jansen said that "It makes us proud that Aconcagua Ventures believes in CC&S and decided to support us in our mission to make transport cheaper through innovation and collaboration. The financial and technical support of Aconcagua allows CC&S to develop powerful tools to reduce the costs for container operators and consequently for the freight industry as a whole".
CC&S' MvFleet™ is emerging as the global standard for empty Equipment repositioning Communication and proving to be the most effective way to reduce costs and create business opportunities among carriers and providers.
Aconcagua Venture members are also founders of Core Security which develops strategic solutions that help security-conscious organizations worldwide. The company’s flagship product, CORE IMPACT™, is the first automated penetration testing product for assessing specific information security threats to an organization. Penetration testing evaluates overall network security and identifies what resources are exposed. It enables organizations to determine if current security investments are detecting and preventing attacks.
Mv-Fleet's full committed user jump in profits.
Martin Dixon, CI-Online - May 13, 2009.
US liner operator Seaboard reported a jump in profits for the first quarter and indicated that it was evaluating the purchase of additional vessel capacity.
The Miami-based carrier which provides liner services between the US, Caribbean, Central and South America, reported a racy 81% ...
Seaboard Marine is an ocean transportation company that provides direct, regular service between the United States and the Caribbean Basin, Central and South America. Established in 1983, Seaboard Marine is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Seaboard Corporation. Seaboard has fully implemented Mv-Fleet™ saving time, optimizing tasks and creating new opportunities as part of Seaboard's daily workflow.
LLoyd's List spotlights CC&S office in the Singapore of the Americas.
From Lloyd's List for CC&S - January 30, 2009.
Panama is successfully luring major international companies to set up operations on its shores as it attempts to become the predominant maritime hub in the region.
Other technology companies lured by the prospect of fiscal incentives have set up operations in Panama's City of Knowledge in the former Clayton army base. They include Container Consultants & Systems, a company working to reduce the cost of repositioning empty containers.
MIT and CC&S add "Green value to the box".
From CC&S Press room - September 22, 2008.
Keeping supply chain costs under control has been a difficult challenge during last years for container industry players. Now shippers and carriers are facing another challenge: limiting the environmental impact of the international goods movement.
Container Consultants & Systems (CC&S) will be working together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT-CTL) on a research initiative that CC&S has called 'Green value to the Box'. MIT-CTL research, initially sponsored by CC&S, will find out how optimization of the current container movement processes can reduce the actual carbon emissions of the movement of goods. The result of the study will contribute to finding the best options to reduce emissions during the entire circle of containerized cargo transportation. An example of similar research is the empty container movement optimization possible through the implementation of Mv-Fleet™, an innovative system to reduce empty container movements through collaboration developed by CC&S and implemented by several shipping lines. These studies will help shippers and carriers to communicate to customers and other stakeholders their efforts on carbon footprint reduction.
