47 results about "International shipping" patented technology

A port storage and distribution system for facilitating the transfer and/or storage of international shipping containers between container ships and ground transport carriers wherein an overhead grid guide track structure is provide that permits overhead transfer units to selectively engage and convey containers as required between the various ships, carriers and storage area without requiring multiple transfers of containers between different handling equipment. The system provides for container scanning and is either fully automated or partially manually controlled.

A method and computer program product for providing paperless customs documentation associated with an international parcel shipment. In various embodiments, the method comprises storing shipping data associated with a parcel shipment, the shipping data designating a destination country and including invoice data, verifying that the destination country accepts electronic customs documentation, and creating an electronic invoice from the shipping data. In various embodiments, the electronic invoice may be easily accessed, such as being transmitted over a network or stored in an RFID transponder associated with the parcel shipment. As a result, the present invention reduces the costs and shipping times associated with preparing, processing, and receiving international shipments by determining whether a country accepts paperless customs documentation and, if so, providing a variety of functions that streamline the international shipping process.

The invention discloses an online trading implementation method and system for international E-commerce and logistics. The online trading implementation method comprises such modules as an order generating module, an order processing module, an automatic purchasing module, a production control module, a storage forwarding module, a booking and customs-declaring module, an international shipping module, and the like. The online trading platform can effectively assist clients and manufacturers in completing transactions across borders in the international business transactions, so as to finally achieve reduction of various costs and transaction expenses, information updating, a win-win situation for all parties of the whole supply chain, therefore, the serviced enterprises are more professional, diversified and knowledge-based in management, and are objectively adaptive to a new commodity circulation trend.

The invention is a method and system for continuously tracking the movement of cargo in domestic and international shipping from point of departure to point of destination and to prevent hijacking of the same. The system uses one or more wireless electronic seals which can communicate with a central computer system, such as by satellite, providing the current location of the cargo at regular intervals or upon demand. The electronic seals are provided with a unique identification number and are activated upon locking of the seal to the closed cargo container. During shipment, the seal transmits its location to the central computer which compares the location of the shipment to a calculated expected route, notifying the parties to the shipment and government authorities in the event that the cargo is found to deviate from the expected route. The electronic seal is also capable of signaling the central computer when the cargo is opened. If the opening is premature, a second seal hidden within the cargo can be activated to enable tracking of the cargo. The system also provides a consolidated, verifiable record of the shipping history of a shipment which can facilitate government clearance and inspections of potentially dangerous cargo.

The systems and methods described herein relate generally to the integration of a shipping label with a customs form to provide a single label having postage, addressing, customs, and other information for international shipping, and in particular, to managing landed cost and harmonization for international packages. In one embodiment, managing the landed cost and harmonization may comprise generating a unique self-validating postage indicium or mark in response to a request that includes a description of contents for a package onto which an international shipping label is to be placed and a destination country where the package is to be delivered. As such, the unique self-validating postage indicium or mark may indicate that landed costs for delivering the package to the destination country have been pre-paid, wherein the unique self-validating postage indicium or mark and a customs declaration form may be printed on the international shipping label.

The systems and methods described herein relate generally to the integration of a shipping label with a customs form to provide a single label having postage, addressing, customs and other information for international shipping. In one embodiment, a method for generating an international shipping a package comprises the steps of providing shipping information associated with the package, the information comprising address information of the origin, address information of the destination, postage information including a postage amount due to a post service and a customs form number unique within the post service; processing a shipping label having the shipping information displayed thereon; and affixing the shipping label to the package.

A system and method for a global shipping platform for an online marketplace is described. A transaction between an international buyer and a domestic seller for an item listed by the domestic seller in the online marketplace is generated. A domestic shipping transaction of the transaction is generated for the domestic seller. An international shipping transaction of the transaction is generated for the international buyer.

The present invention interconnects national postal systems to provide for international shipping capabilities through a global post. More particularly, the present invention provides end-to-end visibility and monitoring of shipped parcels and documents through coordinated and/or standardized tracking. Also, the invention provides for allocation between national posts of monies received for a shipment serviced by both initiating and destination posts. Certain embodiments of the invention provide digital archiving of shipped documents. Particular embodiments of the invention allow national posts to act as third-party payors through the global post for purchases from foreign manufacturers.

The invention is a method and system for continuously tracking the movement of cargo in domestic and international shipping from point of departure to point of destination and to prevent hijacking of the same. The system uses one or more wireless electronic seals which can communicate with a central computer system, such as by satellite, providing the current location of the cargo at regular intervals or upon demand. The electronic seals are provided with a unique identification number and are activated upon locking of the seal to the closed cargo container. During shipment, the seal transmits its location to the central computer which compares the location of the shipment to a calculated expected route, notifying the parties to the shipment and government authorities in the event that the cargo is found to deviate from the expected route. The electronic seal is also capable of signaling the central computer when the cargo is opened. If the opening is premature, a second seal hidden within the cargo can be activated to enable tracking of the cargo which may be removed from the container. The system also provides a consolidated, verifiable record of the shipping history of a shipment which can facilitate government clearance and inspections of potentially dangerously handled cargo.

Creating and displaying an international shipping map showing destinations where a seller from a market venue has previously shipped items. The seller registers and identifies self-verified prior shipment counts to geographic areas and/or uploads a file of historical transaction information. A map is created by overlaying the cumulative count or symbol representing prior shipments on a specific pixel coordinate corresponding to the location of an appropriate geographic shipping area. The seller is next sent HTML text for the display of the seller's unique map image. The cumulative count of shipments made to a geographic area is continually incremented in response to subsequent transactions. The map image is presented by the system in response to an HTML call from the HTML text placed by the seller on an item selling web page at a market venue or placed by the seller in an HTML enabled email sent to the buyer.

The invention belongs to the technical field of containers and particularly relates to an international shipping logistics transportation container. The international shipping logistics transportationcontainer comprises a supporting plate, a container body, a horizontal inductance gauge, a mounting plate, hydraulic cylinders, springs, motors I, a controller and clamping modules. According to theinternational shipping logistics transportation container, the springs are arranged between the left and right ends of the supporting plate and the mounting plate; the two hydraulic cylinders are symmetrically arranged at the left and right ends of the supporting plate; the lower ends of cylinder blocks of the hydraulic cylinders are hinged to the upper end face of the mounting plate; the ends ofcylinder rods of the hydraulic cylinders are provided with kidney-shaped holes; the hydraulic cylinders at the lower end of the supporting plate are controlled through the controller to enable the supporting plate to remain level all the time; meanwhile, the ends of the cylinder rods of the hydraulic cylinders are provided with the kidney-shaped holes, the hydraulic cylinders get away from the supporting plate when the container is placed stably; in case of small jolting, vibration and side tipping are alleviated through the springs, the service life of the hydraulic cylinders is prolonged, the vibration filter effect of the container is improved, and the stability of the container during transportation is ensured.

The embodiments of the invention disclose a trading order payment information processing method and a trading order payment information processing device. The method comprises the following steps: a logistics management platform server pre-stores the corresponding relation between commodity object characteristics and average package weights; a request for acquiring international shipping cost information sent by a trading platform server for a currently generated specific trading order is received; the target characteristic of a target commodity object is extracted from the specific trading order; the target characteristic is compared with the commodity object characteristics in the pre-stored corresponding relation, and the international shipping cost is calculated according to the average package weight corresponding to the matched commodity object characteristic; and the international shipping cost is returned to the trading platform server. According to the embodiments of the invention, the operation cost of a second user can be saved, and the system resources can be saved.

Disclosed is a method process of online rating for international import and export shipments. The rating combines multiple carriers together in order to provide one cohesive international service. The consumer can obtain a door to port or door to door rate when employing a pick up carrier, such as a trucking company, and an airline or ocean carrier as well as a destination delivery company. The method provide a real time monetary rate costs based upon the closest terminal and determines which terminal to terminal rate to use for the air or ocean portion as well as providing a pick up rate for that service. The process further estimates the multiple rate costs from various vendors associated with a shipment and stores these rate costs through a database to be used at a later date for verification.

The invention discloses a tugboat cooperation scheme generation method based on an artificial neural network. The tugboat cooperation scheme generation method comprises the following steps: S100, collecting an existing tugboat scheme to form a database, wherein the scheme at least comprises types and quantity of tugboats, a geometrical shape formed by the plurality of tugboats, and types of dragged boats, and hydrologic conditions of a dragging region; S200, establishing a target function of the boats and a tugboat dragging scheme, wherein the final solution of the target function is a final arrangement manner of the plurality of tugboats; S300, training the target function by using a tugboat arrangement scheme in the database to obtain a developed target function; and S400, judging the current scheme by using the developed target function to obtain a final tugboat arrangement scheme. With the adoption of the tugboat cooperation scheme generation method, the dispatching of the tugboats is more accurate, and the tugboat cooperation scheme generation method has a great actual application value in a busy international shipping hub.

A system for providing a user with international shipping rates in real time. The system includes a client, a shipping rates database comprising current shipping rate information for a plurality of freight forwarders, and a server comprising a processor. The processor is programmed to receive, from the client, a request for shipping rates for shipping a freight from an origin location in an origin country to a destination location in a destination country, access, from the shipping rates database, current shipping rate information for each of the plurality of freight forwarders, and send the client a shipping rate for each of the plurality of freight forwarders based on shipping the freight from the origin location to the destination location.

The invention discloses a method for predicting the freight rate of an international shipping container. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining and preprocessing historical freight rate data of an export container; performing technical processing on historical data, analyzing characteristics of historical price time sequence, ring period and same period price data, and mining influence conditions of factors such as the distance between an observation date and a departure date, a destination port and an exit light and peak season on ticket prices; and predicting the price in the future time period according to historical data and the impact factors. According to the international shipping container freight rate prediction method, on the basis of prediction according to historical prices, multiple factors such as periodicity of price fluctuation, market popularity and the distance between the current date and the departure date are objectively considered, the prediction precision is improved, the method can effectively reduce the enterprise export freight cost, reduce the industry default rate, and improve the execution efficiency of the international marine transportation organization.

The invention provides an international shipping price trend analysis method and device, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a shipping price information set from each starting basic port to each target basic port in a current period, and obtaining the current route information, current port information and current ship information in the current period; generating a current comprehensive freight rate index corresponding to the current period according to the freight rate information set; and generating a current freight rate trend analysis result corresponding to the current period according to the current route information, the current port information and the current ship company information. By calculating and analyzing the data in the current period, the analyzed result has high reference value on one hand and high timeliness on the other hand, and can be directly used for market pre-measures and formulating future prices, so that the profit of the shipping order is effectively and accurately controlled, the risk caused by human factors is eliminated, and the market can be accurately predicted and controlled.

There are provided methods and systems for facilitating international shipment of goods that enable centralized control of both the establishment of and any changes to international shipping requirements. Users can conveniently query the system through remote terminals. Requirement information is provided in a user-useful and friendly manner including matrices of core requirements relating to all shipments and country specific requirements relating to specified origination and/or destination countries. Compliance testing is provided by which a user can evaluate a particular international shipment for compliance with requirements particular to that shipment.

The invention belongs to the technical field of transportation safety and particularly relates to an international shipping safety management transportation method. In the method, a stabilizing platform in the method comprises a supporting plate, a container, a horizontal induction instrument, a mounting plate, a hydraulic cylinder, a spring, a first motor, a controller and a clamping module. Thespring is arranged between the left end and the right end of the supporting plate and the mounting plate, two hydraulic cylinders are symmetrically arranged at the left end and the right end of the supporting plate, kidney-shaped holes are formed in the ends of cylinder rods of the hydraulic cylinders, and the hydraulic cylinder at the lower end of the supporting plate is controlled through the controller, so that the supporting plate is always kept horizontal; meanwhile, the kidney-shaped holes are formed in the ends of the cylinder rods of the hydraulic cylinders, so that when the containeris stably placed, the hydraulic cylinders are separated from the supporting plate, when the container is in small jolt, the vibration and side tipping are also slowed down by the spring, thus the service life of the hydraulic cylinders is prolonged, meanwhile the vibration filtering effect of the container is improved, and the stability of the container in the transportation process is guaranteed.