SWiM GDS is the world's only B2B Digital Global Distribution System developed specifically for Global Container Shipping and the related Maritime Services Industry.
Stage 1 Development of the SWiM GDS has been completed and accommodates for the unique Operational Planning, Container Booking, Secure Document and Data Exchange, and Transactional Relationships that exist exclusively between Global Container Shipping Lines and Freight Forwarders, universally standardising and digitising these complex operations and relationships for the very first time through a single Global Distribution System and platform.
Stage 2 Development of the SWiM GDS is underway and when completed will accommodate similar Operational, Planning, Communication, Data Exchange and Transactional relationships existing between Container Shipping Lines and Worldwide Ports, Stevedores and other associated Vessel and Maritime Services Providers, with the aim of digitising these complex operations and relationships for the very first time through a single Global Distribution System and platform.
Our Founders and Key Advisory team comprise a pool of highly skilled, talented professionals and entrepreneurs, each considered a specialist within their own industry and field of expertise.
The broad ranging skill set brought by our Founders and Key Advisory team comes from decades of experience in Global Banking, Finance, Payments and Trade, IT Systems Architecture and Development, Global Shipping and Maritime Services, International Law, Compliance and Risk Management, Business Intelligence Analysis, Infrastructure Major Project delivery and more.
Collectively the SWiM Team set about finding solutions to fix the big ticket issues impacting Global Container Shipping as well as certain other related industries. In doing so we have devised and are developing a number of interconnecting and complimentary IT system based solutions that not only deliver enormous efficiency and facilitate uniform industry wide digitalisation for the Global Container Shipping Industry, but have the capacity to remove up to circa US 82 Billion Dollar annual cost from the industry.
Delivering global interconnectivity 24 hours per day, every day, the SWiM Global Distribution System never closes and provides an independent, trusted and transparent digital platform with unparalleled security and secure document and data exchange, designed to deliver efficiencies and operating cost reductions to Freight Forwarders, Container Shipping Lines and associated Maritime Services Providers.
Accessible by users operating in their choice of single or multi-currencies, SWiM GDS is the world's first truly independent B2B Global Distribution System specifically designed for the USD 1.3 Trillion global container shipping and maritime services ecosystem, facilitating ongoing collaborative development to enhance uniform, industry wide, digitalisation.