The document is a project report on fundamentals of shipping information technology submitted to Tolani Institute of Management Studies. It discusses several topics including Ice Gate, Electronic Data Interchange, INTTRA, BOLERO, INMARSAT, and specialized export software systems. The report provides overviews of these different technologies and systems used in shipping and transportation to improve efficiency and information sharing.

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PROJECT REPORT ON
FUNDAMENTALS OF SHIPPING
ON
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF SHIPPING
UNDERTAKEN AT
TOLANI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Submitted By:
THAKKER MAYURI
(12052)
Guided By:
PROF. SUSHIL CHAURASIA
PGDM PROGRAMME (Year 2012-14)
TOLANI INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES
ADIPUR

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CONTENTS
Ice gate..................................................................................................................................................................................................................3
Electronic Data Interchange ........................................................................................................................................................................4
INTTRA.................................................................................................................................................................................................................6
Bill Of Lading Electronic Registry Organization (BOLERO)............................................................................................................8
INMARSAT...........................................................................................................................................................................................................9
SPECIALIZED EXPORT SOFTWARE SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................9

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ICE GATE
e-Commerce Portal of Central Board of Excise Customs. Hindi. English. Color Options.
Custom House Agent. The Custom House Agents can avail transactional services for Imports Exports.
The services available include clearance e-Filing of Import Export documents, Status of documents
including Query Reply as well as Real time Summary Tracking Exporters / Importers.
Importers Exporters can avail facilities of self e-Filing of the documents, e-Payments and Real Time
Tracking of documents and Query Status of their documents here Institutional Partners. Information,
Guidelines and Technical documents related to Institutional trading partners can be obtained here.
Latest News:- Highlights, Automated Service Tax Refund in EDI, Implementation of Reward Scheme in
EDI,
Filing of SB with Port of discharge and Country of destination in different countries.
RelatedLinks:-www.cbec.gov.in.,www.aces.gov.in.,www.nacen.gov.in.,
www.ltu.gov.in.,www.finmin.nic.in., www.nic.in.

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ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE
EDI stands for Electronic Data Interchange. It is a standard communication protocol for system-to-system
integration. Companies in a variety of industries use EDI to transmit business information electronically.
Organizations that handle large volumes of data often use EDI to minimize data entry and share
information with other systems within their organization. In the shipping industry, customers can set up
EDI with their carriers to submit and receive shipment information. If you use EDI for existing business
applications, you may want to consider using it to manage your shipment data.
Business Benefits
EDI integration eliminates the need for double input, improving your operations.
Experience fewer submission errors and faster document turnaround time.
Managing shipment information by EDI can help you minimize phone, fax, and courier charges by
submitting documents electronically.
Save effort with proven and efficient implementation process - standardized integrations can be
implemented quickly.
Data integrity -- our system automatically monitors message integrity and can issue reports and e-
mail notifications to the appropriate parties if the message fails established criteria.
Automated system for handling a large volume of EDI ANSI x12 standard transactions between trading
partners in a fully automated system. Receive and send various documents such as purchase order
(850), invoice (810), advance shipping notice (856), order acknowledgement (855), order inquiry (869),
order report (870).

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INTTRA
INTTRA is World's Largest, Most Active Network for Ocean Shipping
INTTRA is the world’s largest, multi-carrier network for the ocean shipping industry. Our solution
enables customers to efficiently and easily plan, book, manage, settle and analyze ocean freight
shipments with the 40 leading carriers and NVOCCs. We’ve made it our mission to streamline and
standardize ocean shipping processes and to provide unmatched analysis capabilities across the
network to support better business decisions, improve customer experience and drive growth. And
we’re not done yet. INTTRA professionals are working every day, around the world, to continue to
deliver valuable products and services to our global network of more than 200,000 shipping
professionals. Over 525,000 container orders are initiated on the INTTRA platform each week,
representing more than 18 percent of global ocean container trade.
Why people choose INTTRA:
Superior Technology
Underlying INTTRA’s solution is industry leading, transaction processing and analytics technology that
consistently delivers high availability, highly secure and lightning fast systems. INTTRA’s SaaS-based
products are hosted in a premium data center with world-class operating standards with a team of
global IT professionals 24x7x365. Network participants receive 99.95% system uptime with the power
to support high-volume transaction processing and data accessibility to enhance network collaboration
and decision-making in the fast-paced ocean shipping industry. One connection to INTTRA puts the
ocean at your fingertips.
Efficiency
Over the past 11 years, we’ve done more than simply deliver products. With our carrier and shipping
partners, we’ve developed the standards in use today for critical shipping business processes. Through
a rich set of well-defined, repeatable business processes we deliver global efficiencies across the full
shipping lifecycle. Ocean shipping is our DNA. The INTTRA processes and supporting member services
help our clients employ the power of e-commerce to achieve rapid business impact – helping them
reduce costly overhead and deliver valuable business improvements.

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People
INTTRA professionals are dedicated and passionate about what we do. Our history of innovation
creating process and industry standards, performance measurement standards and metrics, and
unequaled network collaboration has been powered by the people at INTTRA - who deeply understand
the challenges and requirements of the ocean shipping industry. We are 100% focused on helping our
clients transform how they manage shipping processes and engage partners across the supply chain for
greater efficiency, lower risk, better visibility and improved collaboration.

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BILL OF LADING ELECTRONIC REGISTRY ORGANIZATION (BOLERO)
International organization created by some of the world's leading banks and shipping, trading, and
other firms to provide secure business-to-business information over the internet. It covers all types of
commercial transactions open account, documentary collection, and documentary credit. In addition
to the digital bill of lading, BOLERO handles many associated documents online and aims to provide
all banking, certification, commercial, customs, insurance, and transport documents electronically.
Based on the open standards (such as EDIFACT and XML), it employs a patented legal infrastructure
and a secure messaging system (in association with SWIFT). Its rigorous registration system accepts
only those firms as members whose identity can be verified and vetted, and binds them with strict
rules.
The objectives of BOLERO include
(1) Development of a financial supply chain as efficient as modern physical supply chains,
(2) Safe and tamperproof paperless-trading,
(3) Seamless integration of shipping and manufacturing systems,
(4) complete confidentiality of transactions,
(5) Fast and reliable delivery of documents anywhere in the world with non-disputable (see non
repudiation) proof of delivery,
(6) Timely dispute resolution at reasonable cost, and
(7) Transparency and visibility throughout the process.

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INMARSAT
The International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) is an internationally owned co-
operative which provides mobile communications worldwide.
Established in 1979 to serve the maritime community,
INMARSAT has since evolved to become the only provider or
mobile global satellite communications for commercial,
distress and safety application, at sea, in the air and on land. It
is based in London, and has 75 member countries. Reads are
urged to visit the INMARSAT wed sit to keep up to data.
In response to the ever increasing need for computer-based,
cost effective and secure communications system at sea,
INMARSAT has developed advance computer solutions that
deliver content-rich data and communications solutions to
ships of INMARSAT Fleet F77 INMARSAT Fleet F77
The Fleet F77 system is based on digital technology
Can supply digital communication via telephone, fax, mobile ISDN and Mobile Packed Data
Service (MPDS)
SPECIALIZED EXPORT SOFTWARE SYSTEM

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Various Software products are available for the production of commercial and shipping
documentation for export. These can range from programs providing little more than the means of
manually keying-in data into an onscreen from to a highly automated system with rules and
procedures and specialized shipping – related data maintenance facilities.
Purposes of export software system
1. To speed up the shipping process and move the goods more quickly.
2. To eliminate rekeying and other repetitive activity.
3. To reduce the likelihood of errors.
4. To present a more professional image.
5. To be able to extract management information.
6. To lessen dependence upon the presence or knowledge of individuals.
7. To improve customer service through status control and avoidance of shipping problems.