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Press Release
Portnet.com Partners eGuide to Create
On-line Shipping Directory For Local Shipping
Industry
Portnet.com Pte Ltd (Portnet.com), a fully-owned
subsidiary of PSA Corporation Ltd, and eGuide
Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore’s premier on-line
business directory, today signed an agreement
to create an on-line shipping directory for the
local shipping industry.
Under the agreement, eGuide will develop a webpage,
which will feature content from eGuide, complete
with real-time updates from its main information
directory server. The webpage will be located
on Portnet.com’s website.
Launched on 21 Sep 2000, the on-line shipping
directory is the latest offering from Portnet.com’s
InfoHub suite of services. Through the InfoHub,
users can access real-time vessel schedules in
Singapore, and, in the near future, critical business
related reports and research reports to facilitate
decision-making, as well as news on the latest
happenings in the shipping industry.
"Portnet.com aims to provide a one-stop
site for shipping services for our customers,
and the development of this shipping directory
has brought us one step closer to fulfilling our
objective."
"eGuide’s expertise in the area of
directory services is one the reasons why we chose
them as our strategic partner. This partnership
will enable Portnet.com to provide its users with
a user-friendly and comprehensive guide to the
shipping industries in Singapore," said Mr
Robert Yap, Managing Director, Portnet.com Pte
Ltd; and Executive Vice-President (Information
Technology), PSA Corporation Ltd.
As the world’s largest transhipment hub,
PSA provides every shipper an unrivalled choice
of more than 120 container shipping lines with
connections to over 500 ports. This includes daily
sailing to every major port in the world.
Mr Ricky Koh, CEO, eGuide Singapore Pte Ltd,
said, "We are pleased to provide our expertise
and develop this on-line shipping directory exclusively
for Portnet.com. This directory will have the
entire listing of all shipping companies in Singapore,
which will be broken down by categories and sub-categories.
Users will be able to get information instantaneously
and the shipping industry will find this an extremely
useful guide. eGuide will also be able to provide
Portnet.com with similar shipping directories
for the region as and when Portnet.com requires
them."
Portnet.com
A fully-owned subsidiary of PSA Corporation
Ltd, Portnet.com Pte Ltd aims to offer a comprehensive
suite of products to serve the port and shipping
community. Portnet.com has a suite of products,
at the heart of which is the PORTNET® system,
which is the world’s first, and still the
only, nation-wide e-commerce network that has
the participation of the entire shipping and port
community that operates through Singapore. In
June 1999, in keeping with worldwide technological
advances, PSA moved the PORTNET® system onto
the Internet platform, thereby opening its doors
to the global shipping and port community. For
more details on Portnet.com, visit the website
at http://www.portnet.com.
eGuide
Headquartered in Singapore, eGuide is
the region’s premier on-line business directory.
Besides the Internet, its directory can be accessed
through WAP Phones [www.eGuide.com.sg/wml/]. The
directory is powered by eGuide’s proprietary
search engines to provide users with quick and
easy access to a comprehensive database containing
detailed information of 80,000 companies in Singapore
and 180,000 companies in Malaysia. An additional
database of over a million companies tapped from
its markets in Thailand, Hong Kong and Australia
will go on-line by the end of the year. eGuide’s
databases provide its users with more than 12,000
classifications of Products & Services, Brands
and Companies, catering to users’ business
and lifestyle needs. For additional information,
visit http://www.eGuide.com.sg.
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