Produits et services

Maritime trade information; tracking of maritime vehicles for commercial purposes; transportation logistics services, namely, arranging the transportation of goods for others; providing tracking services and information concerning tracking of assets in transit, namely, maritime vessels, and cargo and delivery containers for commercial purposes; business information services, namely, reporting of information and data regarding maritime trade; tracking, locating and monitoring of maritime vessels for commercial purposes; providing business information for use in the evaluation of alternative vessel chartering options and the determination of related revenue and costs; providing business information used to optimize the global allocation of a fleet of maritime vessels; tracking, locating and monitoring of vehicles, maritime vessels and aircraft services for commercial purpose; providing information relating to freight price comparisons and business risk management all relating to transportation of vehicles Financial information and financial advisory services, namely, preparation, compilation, and provision of financial information, reports, analyses and indices; financial advisory and financial consultancy services relating shipping freight rates, including financial benchmark and index information Transportation information services in the field of cargo and maritime vessels; transportation information services, specifically, providing vehicle position, direction and speed information by computer for freighting purposes; providing information concerning collection and delivery of assets in transit, namely, vehicles, trailers, drivers, cargo and delivery containers; transportation information relating to the vehicle routes Platform as a Service (PaaS) services featuring a computer software platform for measuring, tracking and monitoring vehicles and assets in the global trade of physical goods, including maritime trade; Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for route management and optimization for vehicles and assets in the field of worldwide fleet management; providing online non-downloadable software and data feeds for real-time representation of shipping routes and shipping related data; providing online non-downloadable software for data benchmarking in relation to maritime freight and shipping routes, rates, and risk; providing online non-downloadable software for the evaluation of alternative transport options with variations in vehicle class, cargo and route; providing online non-downloadable software that provides instruction and information on how to optimize the utilization of transport vehicles; Platform as a Services (PaaS) services featuring computer software platforms for monitoring freight rates, costs and risk relating to the transport of physical goods, including by shipping vessels

Abrégé

This invention provides a global strategic picture of commodity movements generated by tracking ships from satellite and other sources and then combining ship location and movement information with at least one other data set, such as vessel, port, cargo, weather, or market data. Ship positions are integrated with other data, such as vessel, port, cargo, weather, and market information, to create a global strategic picture of commodity flows. A global strategic picture may then be generated by combining (i) ship movements gathered by satellite and other sources, with (ii) vessel, port, cargo, weather, market, and other data from existing sources, and (iii) a time history of these data sets.