Press Release

PSA’s Portnet.com Provides Customers with Instant Access to Berthing Schedules via WAP-Enabled Mobile Equipment

Portnet.com Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of PSA Corporation Ltd (PSA), has announced a new wireless information service that provides value for busy shipping executives on the move. Using WAP(wireless application protocol)–enabled handphones and other mobile equipment, such as hand-held personal computers, shipping executives can now check the berthing and unberthing schedules of vessels calling at PSA’s terminals instantly, simply by accessing PSA’s portnet.com web site at http://www.portnet.com/03products/shippers_1.htm.

This unique service provided by PSA’s Portnet.com offers customers instant and updated vessel berthing information with great convenience. Presently, shipping executives obtain such information by checking with PSA’s terminals, through the Internet or by manually sieving the information from trade publications.

The WAP-enabled berthing schedule is provided free-of-charge to PSA customers. This has been developed in line with Portnet.com’s philosophy of increasing productivity and saving costs for its customers through the greater use of the Internet. Other members of the port community also stand to benefit. For example, shippers who need to know when the vessels transporting their cargo will arrive or depart from PSA’s terminals in Singapore can obtain this information in an instant through WAP.

Mr Khoo Teng Chye, Group President, PSA Corporation, said, "Portnet.com was set up by PSA to tap on the Internet and new telecommunication technologies to bring about greater convenience and new cost-effective solutions for our customers. The availability of berthing schedules of vessels calling at Singapore on WAP-enabled mobile equipment is a continuation of our efforts. In carrying on with the PSA tradition, we have and will continue to listen to our customers’ feedback, and strive to deliver more of such innovative services for their operations in Singapore."

Portnet.com was launched on 8 May to create more value through e-commerce solutions for the shipping community. It builds on PSA’s expertise in establishing Portnet as the only nationwide e-commerce community for ports and shipping in the world today since 1984. Portnet has 6,400 users and 5 million transactions a month.