Cargopoint Delivers Custom Brokerage Automation and Dramatic Productivity Improvements

10 March 2010

New Capabilities Supporting Border Entries, Ocean Shipments and Commercial Invoice Integration

Kewill (LSE: KWL), a leading provider of solutions that simplify global trade and logistics, today announced the general availability of CargoPoint 5.0,  the industry’s leading customs brokerage solution for small and medium-sized US Customs Brokers.

CargoPoint 5.0 delivers a powerful integrated solution that supports Customs Brokerage, Freight Forwarding, and Accounting, running on a low cost Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft SQL Server platform.

“CargoPoint is a workhorse, providing a powerful tool for my team to speed entries so they can focus on more strategic customer service opportunities”, said James Prudente, Controller and Director of IT of Masterpiece International Limited, a leading Customs Broker and Freight Forwarder with offices in 14 cities throughout the U.S. “Kewill continues to deliver key capabilities such as support for the Lacey Act, Unified Filing, and seamless integration with Forwarding and Internet Tracking.”

Other features included in CargoPoint 5.0 include:

• Processing of Ocean In-Bond Shipments, via the QP/WP ABI application
• Use Inbound EDI Commercial Invoices, to speed preparation of the Customs Entry.  The time to prepare the Customs Entry is reduced by as much as 95%.
• Support for Customs Entry processing for the Northern and Southern Border including Integration with "Optima" for E-Manifest along the Southern Border. Out of the box integration with Quick Books for Accounting
• Integration with Kewill ISF web portal

CargoPoint 5.0 is available immediately. 

Please contact Kewill directly for more detailed product description and pricing information.