NetDespatch global plans boosted with Australian success
5 November 2004

NetDespatch continues expansion world-wide with its first customer in Australia. Brisbane-based Precision Worldwide Logistics (PWL) has chosen the NetDespatch Velocity application to provide a host of web services to be integrated with their express logistics website, www.sendyourstuff.com. Velocity allows PWL to provide its customers across Australia, and in other countries such as New Zealand and Hong Kong with instant online access to useful services such as shipment booking and tracking, a comprehensive import engine, pricing, reports and even a facility to print bar-coded parcel labels and manifests.

‘Customers who have contracted their third party logistics to us can view up to date status of their local Australian deliveries. We have a Hong Kong based hotel supplies company doing this - they are very impressed as they can get a snapshot of their Australian operation wherever they are” comments Wayne Robinson, PWL Director.

NetDespatch (www.netdespatch.com), who are based in Marlow, UK and supply pay-as-you-go web services to many courier and parcel companies, has already established a broad customer base in the UK, USA and Canada. The company's web services have been developed from the start for a global market and are designed to form an integral, customized part of any transport company website.

"For PWL, NetDespatch has provided an instant cost-effective solution offering a highly professional online tracking capability. Our customers have been really impressed and it gives us an immediate lead over our competitors. And to top it all, it has cost very little to get up and running as we only pay when the service is used" added Wayne Robinson.

According to Dr. Gerson Machado, International Business Development Director at NetDespatch, adapting the Velocity service to a local market is relatively easy. "The basic principles of transport services remain the same everywhere; it is terminology and language that differ. Our hosted applications are designed for local customization and have a high degree of flexibility, allowing companies like PWL to embed the service as a seamless element in their website."