Bizzsms’ customer Safmarine is among the few shipping companies that have a mobile application or mobile website. A recent benchmark by Seaintel Maritime of the 53 biggest shipping company shows that 87% of the large shipping companies does not have a mobile solution. Seaintel foresees an increasing market “Based on developments in other industries, it appears inevitable that the carriers’ customers will increasingly want easy mobile solutions at their disposal”.
In the article special attention is paid to Safmarine:
“As a side note, it will be interesting to see if anything changes regarding Safmarine’s mobile website and apps once their internal support and management functions are integrated into those of its sister company, Maersk Line, as a consequence of the closure of the Safmarine headquarter functions in Antwerp. As it stands now, Maersk Line‟s mobile device offering is not up to par with Safmarine’s.”
Safmarine Android app launched
Bizzsms & Safmarine just released the new Safmarine Android application. There was already an iPhone version of the application available, and now Android is added to the wide range of web and mobile applications Safmarine offers.
The apps allows to search for sailing schedules , tracking of cargo based container or booking number , a feed to the latest Safmarine news items and the possibility to look up agency contacts. Please note that the tracking functionality has an alert option where Safmarine will push new status events directly to the device of the customer.
This week Bizzsms launched two new mobile applications.
Safmarine
The iPhone app of Safmarine, a subdivision of the A.P. Moller - Maersk group, was accepted by Apple by Friday evening. Safmarine is an international shipping business offering container and break-bulk shipping services worldwide and has over 200 offices worldwide.
The application offers the following functions:
Search for Schedules: select a from/to location and display all possible sailing schedules.
Track and trace: track the current container location of a booking. Also using the hotlist the users get automatic notification upon changes.
Agencies: find the most nearby Safmarine agency or find by search term
News: the latest Safmarine news
Heyello for Android
The second application that was launched was the Heyello! application for Android. Bizzsms developed the iPhone application before for postcard company DmCards and now there is an Android version of the same application. The application allows users to send a postcard by regular mail from their Android device. Users can select a picture, add a frame and add text to personalize their postcards.
Within two business days the postcard reaches it’s destination. The Blackberry version of the application is soon to come.
Betaversion of Safmarine’s mobile website
The beta version of the mobile website of Safmarine was launched. During the last months Bizzsms has worked closely together with Safmarine and IT company IBM to create the mobile website. During Januari the broad customer base of Safmarine can test the webapplications available at the mobile website.
Bizzsms is proud to announce that it will develop the new mobile website of Safmarine. Safmarine is a shipping company that operates worldwide and is a division of the Moller-Maersk Group. The new mobile website will include several application such as track and trace to locate containers and an office locator.
Since there are far more mobile phones than regular internet connections the future of internet will be mobile as we can already notice in countries like Japan. This new mobile website is the opportunity to make the company’s services more accessible to its customers and future customers.
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Bizzsms is proud to announce that it will develop the new mobile website of Safmarine. Safmarine is a shipping company that operates worldwide and is a division of the Moller-Maersk Group. The new mobile website will include several application such as track and trace to locate containers and an office locator. 
