Booking an ocean container used to mean separate portals, emails and EDI links for every shipping line. Inttra was built to fix that: a neutral, multi-carrier platform where forwarders and shippers book, send shipping instructions and track across many carriers from one place. At acquisition it spanned around 60 carriers and 35,000 shippers and handled the digital paperwork for roughly one in four ocean container shipments worldwide. Nexport Logistics books your ocean freight and surfaces it in the Nexportal platform.
What an ocean e-booking platform does
- Electronic booking: request and confirm space with carriers digitally.
- Shipping Instructions (SI): submit the data that becomes the Bill of Lading.
- eVGM: the electronic Verified Gross Mass declaration (mandatory under SOLAS).
- Track & trace: container status across carriers in one view.
- Schedules & EDI: sailing schedules and system-to-system integration.
The value is the same as a community system: book and instruct once, across many carriers, in a standard format, instead of one bespoke connection per line.
The ownership chain
The corporate map here moved recently:
- Inttra → E2open: E2open acquired Inttra (completed November 2018). Inttra now brands as "part of E2open," the connected supply-chain SaaS network.
- E2open → WiseTech Global: WiseTech Global completed its US$2.1bn acquisition of E2open on 3 August 2025.
So as of late 2025, Inttra, E2open and CargoWise are all under WiseTech Global. If you'd heard Inttra described as "WiseTech," that's now correct by acquisition, though its direct parent product is E2open, and CargoWise (the dominant forwarder TMS) is the sister product. They were genuinely separate companies until August 2025.
Not every carrier picks Inttra
Inttra is neutral: forwarders book around 60 carriers through it, and most big lines support it; several even co-founded it in 2001. But not everyone routes through Inttra. Some carriers run their own platforms.
| Platform | What it is | Carriers / owner | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inttra | Neutral multi-carrier booking, SI & tracking | ~60 carriers; owned by E2open / WiseTech | Neutral network |
| CargoSmart | Booking, documentation & visibility platform | Subsidiary of OOCL, under COSCO Shipping | Carrier-aligned (OOCL/COSCO) |
| GSBN | Non-profit blockchain data network (eBL, data exchange) | COSCO, OOCL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hutchison Ports, PSA, SIPG + terminals (Portbase is a member too); IQAX operates it | Carrier/terminal consortium |
| Maersk · CMA CGM · Hapag-Lloyd · myMSC · ONE | Carriers' own booking portals | Each carrier | Carrier-direct (usually also on Inttra) |
| Infor Nexus (ex-GT Nexus) | Shipper-side supply-chain network with ocean booking | Owned by Infor | Neutral / shipper-side |
So OOCL and COSCO chose CargoSmart (and the GSBN consortium), while the lines that founded Inttra still support it alongside their own portals. The industry trend, DCSA standard APIs and 100% eBL by 2030, pushes toward open integration, so the platform matters less than whether your forwarder is connected to all of them.
Where it fits in the bigger picture
Ocean e-booking platforms handle the commercial and instruction layer; the electronic Bill of Lading handles the title document; Portbase handles the port community layer in Rotterdam/Amsterdam; and customs systems handle the declarations. A modern forwarder stitches all of these together for a single shipment.
How Nexport Logistics handles it
We book and instruct your ocean carriers digitally and track every box, with the data brought together for you in Nexportal. One portal for booking, documents and status, instead of five carrier logins.
Need ocean freight booked and tracked? Email info@nexportlogistics.nl.
Official sources: Inttra (E2open) · E2open · WiseTech Global — completion of E2open acquisition. Related: Sea Freight · Ebl · Portbase