Linescape Celebrates 2nd Anniversary with Vessel Information
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Leading Shipping Schedules Website Expands Search Results to Display Key Vessel Profile Data.
Burlingame, CA – May 13, 2011 - Linescape, the leading global sailing schedules search engine, which provides the quickest and most intuitive way to search multiple carrier schedules, now includes key vessel profile information within search results as users browse vessel voyage schedules.
Linescape, celebrating the second anniversary of its launch, allows thousands of daily users to search and view schedule data from over 120 container shipping lines with more than 8 million voyages searchable all at once, including data on 5,000 vessels sailing through 3,000 ports. Linescape offers free hosting of sailing schedules from any VOCC carrier, and encourages any NVOCC carrier to host theirs as ‘sponsored schedules’ which are specially highlighted to promote their business and services.
“Detailed vessel data is now just a click away, including: Vessel Name, IMO Number, Ship Type, Year Built, Country of Registry, DWT, Operator and TEU capacity”, said co-founder David Tarizzo. “We continue to respond to the demands of our users for a one-stop data service, and to the needs of the logistics industry to make their work more efficient and highly effective by expanding available data, and the ease of access.”.
Linescape to Exhibit at Intermodal Europe in Amsterdam
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Search Engine to unveil new developments at Intermodal, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2
Burlingame, CA – October 25, 2010 - Linescape will exhibit at the Intermodal Exhibition taking place at Amsterdam RAI from November 30 to December 2. Visitors are invited to stand B-88 to view demonstrations of Linescape's products and services.
Linescape Launches Predictive Shipping Index™
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Index of schedule searches predicts changes in upcoming bookings
Burlingame, CA – September 28, 2010 - Linescape is a search engine for container shipping schedules, for which many tens of thousands of searches are carried out each month by shippers and freight forwarders all over the world. Linescape was launched in May 2009 and has been gathering search statistics ever since. By September 2009, user traffic reached a critical mass from which meaningful statistics could be analysed. Shippers and forwarders perform searches on average one month prior to actual sailings, and therefore the archive of Linescape search data is indicative of trends in real bookings.
Because the Linescape Predictive Shipping Index anticipates sailings, it can provide insight in advance, and is therefore another useful tool for predicting future trends. Both an export and import index is calculated for each of the main trading regions: China, Europe, India and North America. Figures are given as a percent change in search volume from the previous month.
For more information: www.linescape.com/shippingindex
Transworld Expedition uses Linescape to Ship its Truck around the World
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Linescape is a great tool to find container ships, when they leave, how long and what company
Burlingame, CA – August 26, 2010 - In the summer of 2009, Nicolas Rapp decided to take a break from his Art Director job at The Associated Press to attempt a one-year overland travel around the world in a 1996 Toyota Land Cruiser.
During the expedition, he used Linescape to ship his truck a half-dozen times: from Argentina to South Africa, from Djibouti to Yemen, from Dubai to Iran, from Iran to Mumbai, from Bangladesh to Malaysia, from South East Asia to the United States.
"Linescape is a great tool to find container ships, when they leave, how long and what company; I used it a lot to ship the truck", said Nicolas Rapp.
For more information: http://transworldexpedition.com
Linescape Launches User-Managed Advertising Platform
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Search Engine Introduces Low-Cost and Highly-Targeted Advertising Model to Maximize Return on Ad-Spend
Burlingame, CA – April 19, 2010 - Linescape announced today the launch of its new AdRoutes™ subsystem, a user-controlled on-line advertising system for serving ads on the Linescape search engine. AdRoutes™ gives sponsors unprecedented direct control over their advertising strategy and expenses, allowing them to fine tune the targeting of their advertisements to the precise audience they wish to reach, and to dynamically manage their campaigns themselves.
Advertisers no longer need to commit to long term fixed-cost ad placements, which may or may not be seen by a target customer. AdRoutes™ can place ads that are related to the ports or trade lanes searched by users, allowing advertisers to get their message across to customers at the moment they are searching for container transport. AdRoutes™ works through a simple user control panel that enables advertisers to manage their ads including create, start, edit, stop or change geography with a few clicks of the mouse.
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"We are no longer tied to the conventional advertising model. AdRoutes™ operates somewhat like advertising on Google, Yahoo or Bing, but because Linescape is a 'vertical search engine' with 100% of our audience interested in ocean freight, the advertisement is much more qualified and targeted" said co-founder David Tarizzo. "This tool is ideal for anyone wishing to advertise to the ocean freight industry in any way. And it is also attractive to smaller advertisers because AdRoutes™ can accept small payments by credit card online."
After an AdRoutes™ account has been created, advertisers upload one or more ad images of various sizes and therefore maintain a library of images to choose from at any time. Then, a campaign is created in which the advertiser chooses the geography to be applied. Geographic areas can be as broad as the entire world, or as small as a single port, with separate geographic areas selected for origin and destination. Next, one or more images is associated to the campaign. Start and end dates may also be specified. Users may create as many campaigns as they wish and are in complete control at all times. Advertisers can manage their AdRoutes™ account at any time, 24 hours a day. Funding for the ads is as simple as using a major credit card. An example of an advertiser's campaigns may be:
Campaign A - Run Image01 for all searches between the port of Hamburg and any port in Japan.
Campaign B - Run Image23 for all searches originating in North America to anywhere only in September.
Campaign C - Run Image52 for all searches between Europe and China.
AdRoutes™ records statistics for all impressions and clicks per campaign. This lets advertisers measure the effectiveness and progress of each ad or campaign and therefore to easily make changes in order to optimise campaigns for maximum impact and lowest cost.
Linescape is a powerful search engine with a broad database of container sailing schedules from over 125 vessel-operating carriers. The number of visits to Linescape is growing by 6% each month and users are primarily shippers (53%) and freight forwarders (40%). Each unique visitor searches up to 3 port pairs, on average. With the ability of advertisers to associate their ads to any specific region, country or port desired, the advertising message is highly targeted and more relevant to those who will see it, and advertising costs are kept low because impressions are not wasted outside the target area.
"AdRoutes™ changes the advertising mind-set in this industry," according to co-founder Dimitrios Sogas. "Linescape now makes it possible for advertisers to promote their services in a highly effective, targeted fashion. This means lower advertising costs and more results for each dollar spent -- a recipe for success in these difficult times."
For more information: www.linescape.com/about/advertise
Linescape Launches a Free and Independent Ocean Container Schedule Search Engine
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Innovative, Powerful Tool Reveals Optimum Container Shipping Schedules Using Advanced Features and Industry’s Broadest Database.
Burlingame, CA – May 4, 2009 - Linescape announced today the launch of its free, independent search engine for finding and comparing routes and schedules for shipping ocean containers. Linescape brings to users the only comprehensive and impartial overview of the routes and schedules of the world's carriers, of all sizes, thus giving shippers and forwarders the freedom and ease to find the carrier with the lowest cost or the best schedule for any particular shipment. Linescape’s powerful search engine leverages Web 2.0 technology to simplify sorting through 6 million voyages to 3,000 ports on over 100 shipping lines, and with more added each week. In today’s economic climate, optimized logistics and supply chain functionality is critical for success. It is crucial that shippers and forwarders know all of the options they have in order to get the best price and delivery times for shipping goods to their customers. Equally, shipping lines need a place to bring their offerings to the attention of shippers and forwarders. Linescape provides the perfect market place for buyers and sellers to meet: www.linescape.com.
“We studied the container shipping market and discovered that freight rates can vary by 50% and transit times by 75% on the same route. Choosing the wrong carrier will waste time or waste money or both,” said co-founder Dimitrios Sogas. “The biggest problem has always been the difficulty in finding which carriers sail on which routes; many shippers and forwarders do not even know whom to call. They usually contact only familiar carriers for quotations and therefore often miss out on better options that they do not even know exist, because they can’t find them”.
“Linescape is the answer to the fundamental question, ‘Whom should I call for a quotation?’” according to co-founder David Tarizzo. “Linescape finds you alternatives and saves you time, like an Expedia for the container shipping industry, which in the end will save time and money for shippers and forwarders everywhere.”
Linescape has introduced several advanced features unique to its search engine, including an innovative “Route Planner” that presents users with a matrix of all the possible port combinations between two geographical areas and which carriers serve those routes. This very powerful and easy to use feature will simplify one of the most difficult tasks of a user – trying to choose the best possible origin and destination ports. A unique aspect of the website is the visibility of the number of transhipments in a journey, allowing a user to balance journey times with numbers of tranships to keep risks of delay to a minimum. Another advanced feature is the innovative “Multiple Lines” feature, whereby users are able to automatically build routes via transhipments, even between two unrelated shipping lines.
For more information: www.linescape.com/about/about
About Linescape
Linescape is a leading online provider of comprehensive ocean container shipping schedules for shippers and freight forwarders worldwide. Headquartered in Burlingame, California, Linescape was created in 2008 by a team of professionals who have spent many years in industries that require the shipping of goods to customers all over the world. The company is not affiliated with any carrier, which enables it to act with independence toward all shipping lines, shippers and forwarders. For more information, visit www.linescape.com.