BDP International (BDP), a leading U.S.-based global logistics and transportation management firm, has deployed a major upgrade of BDPDox, its Web-enabled paperless documentation tool for international shipments.

BDPDoxV2.0 includes significant new capabilities to further improve customer and internal productivity, reduce costs and enhance supply chain velocity of air and ocean export transactions for customers and consignee/receivers.

International documents visible on BDPDoxV2.0 represent one of several customer service tools offered on the BDPCustomer.com portal window powered by Xpedion, BDP's web-based business process and IT infrastructure platform.

BDPCustomer.com provides customers with easy Internet access to a suite of global customer service application tools, relevant transportation/logistics industry links, international time, weather and geographic information, service alerts, and access to other customer knowledge tools.

The BDPDox upgrade greatly enhances documentation and distribution velocity for either system-generated international trade documents or customer-supplied documents. Typical document bundles might include insurance memos, dock receipts, certificates of origin, Customs invoices and BDP Transport bills of lading (freighted or unfreighted). For clients of BDP ocean transportation subsidiary BDP Transport, BDPDoxV2.0 automatically generates and speeds document packages to every destination partner in BDP's Global Network via the Internet. Paperless management and distribution of customer cargo documentation is literally thousands of times faster than the earlier process.

"BDPDox has gone beyond delivering on our original objective, to offer customers and carrier partners an expedited, more accurate, cost efficient delivery option for documentation exchange. With the increased emphasis on international supply-chain security, and regulatory urgency for full and more timely cargo information, BDPDoxV2.0 offers a seamless integration of secure data vital to ensuring the uninterrupted flow of commerce," said Richard J. Bolte, Jr., president of BDP International.

BDPDoxV2.0 complements three other Web customer service tools that BDP released in recent years.

BDP International serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide through freight management centers in more than 20 cities in North America, and a network of wholly owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and strategic partnerships in nearly 140 countries.

The company provides a range of services that include ocean, air and ground transportation; export freight forwarding; import customs brokerage; regulatory compliance consultation and education/training; international lead logistics, global chemical logistics, and logistics process analysis and design; project logistics; warehousing/consolidation/distribution; and on-line shipment tracking, transaction, corrective action and data warehouse systems.

Their representative in Buenos Aires:

Transportes Universales S.A. - Tel: 54 11 4343 3100 - Email: tusa@tusa.com.ar