One-stop connection to the most extensive multi-carrier ocean network in the industry
Global shippers often manage bookings and shipping instructions across dozens of ocean carriers and non-vessel owning common carriers (NVOCCs), using multiple portals, email, or phone. The result is slower execution, more manual work, and a higher risk of errors. E2open Ocean Bookings, powered by INTTRA, provides a single, TMS-neutral connection to the world’s largest multi-carrier ocean network so teams can submit booking requests, exchange shipment instructions, and improve execution quality across ocean logistics.
Slow, error-prone booking processes
How multi-party, multi-tier interactions complicate ocean bookings
Inefficient manual processes increase overhead and the risk of errors and disruptions. For companies moving goods by ocean, booking execution often depends on many partners, carrier-specific portals, and differing communication preferences. Those handoffs can multiply delays, increase rekeying, and make it harder to meet cut-offs or resolve exceptions quickly.
Centralize shipment booking collaboration with ocean shipping software
Save time and reduce redundant data entry by managing ocean bookings, confirmations, and shipping instructions through one platform connected to the world’s largest network of carriers and NVOCCs. Carriers can receive requests, return confirmations, and exchange shipment data through standardized digital connections.
Better utilize your team
A single application helps reduce manual transactions, emails, phone calls, and carrier-specific portal work, enabling ocean logistics teams to plan and execute bookings more efficiently.
See available lanes and carriers
Ocean shipping software provides rates and schedules capabilities that help you evaluate available trade lanes and carriers based on departure and arrival points, delivery dates, routing options, transshipments, and cut-off dates.
Submit ocean booking requests directly
Submit ocean booking requests directly to carriers and NVOCCs through one connection. The system transmits the request, returns confirmations, and supports booking changes without forcing teams back into manual workflows.
Share shipping instructions and required data electronically
Electronic submission of shipping instructions, VGM data, and other required shipment details helps improve accuracy, support SOLAS and compliance requirements, reduce cargo onboarding delays, and create an audit trail for carrier submissions and bill of lading workflows.
Quickly expand your carrier network
Access over 100 ocean carriers and NVOCCs already on the network, with reusable connectivity that reduces the burden of carrier-by-carrier onboarding.
Anticipate in-transit issues and manage exceptions
Gain visibility and insights into shipments across shipment legs with milestone updates, dashboards, and alerts to improve operational performance in detention and demurrage, carbon visibility, and lane and delivery performance.
Resources
20-40%
Productivity improvement
60-70%
Increase in speed and on-time performance
50%
Reduction in unplanned costs and fees
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Customers
Testimonials
"The complexity of our business and operating our supply chain is increasing as we see significant growth and diversity of our business across the globe. We’re excited to partner with e2open to ensure we stay abreast of the ever-changing regulations, leverage global trade and compliance best practices and further the digital transformation of our supply chain. The new platform provides best-in class, time-critical compliance to improve our operations, allowing us to better serve our global customers."
Air France® Industries
Head of Customs and Trade Compliance
Air France® Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance
We know what stock we have in the channel, is it healthy, what our average days of stock are, do we ship in more or do we reduce what we are shipping? We are really in control of channel data.
Mailin Boeker
Acer
With the e2open system, processes that used to take a whole calendar year now happen in a matter of days.
Vinny Moscatello
Avon
Working with e2open enables us to better fulfill short supplier lead times, reduce inventory levels, and dramatically improve inventory turns—all while lowering the total cost of ownership to our customers.
Celestica
E2open compliance capabilities are very important for the Geodis Supply Chain Optimization compliance risk management program. The digital information is key to providing timely and accurate visibility, streamlining our compliance check processes, improving their efficiency and reliability. We’re now very well-positioned for the next wave of growth and ready to offer our customers more value than ever before.
Laurent Rosa
GEODIS
The e2open capabilities through supplier collaboration have enabled Jabil to standardize and digitalize our forecast communication process for all suppliers, providing increased optionality for more efficient collaboration. This is undoubtedly providing us with a competitive advantage, ensuring we have near real time visibility into forecast status with our suppliers and helping us make more reliable commitments to our customers.
Alan Brown
Vice President of Supply Chain, Technology and Transformation
Jabil
By implementing an integrated international purchasing system, we have ensured that Leggett & Platt is maximizing its efforts to conduct its international procurement activities in a compliant manner.
John Wainwright
Leggett & Platt, Inc.
The vision for us is that the core activities of transportation should be running independently and smoothly without any interaction from ourselves so that we can really focus on the additional services that we offer to our customers.
Sebastian Poehl
Head of Global Business Solutions
Leschaco
Having visibility to the supply chain gives us and our suppliers the opportunity to plan. We talk about planning its capacity, its resources, its material—and it helps with the cost as well by having all those elements tied together.
L'Oreal
We want to achieve world-class logistics, with teams able to leverage the best tools to overcome todays and future challenges. The benefits we are anticipating by using e2open’s TMS tool for intercontinental logistics are threefold: standardization, reduction of logistics costs, and end-to-end visibility. This should give us a competitive advantage in the market.
Dan Jianu
Logistics Operations Manager
Michelin
"E2open has become our core supply chain platform, giving us all our critical information in one place and enabling true collaboration. Within weeks of implementing Long Tail, we reduced overdue POs from over a hundred to just two—freeing our buyers from transactional work so they can focus on improving lead times, supplier engagement, and delivering more reliable dates to our customers."
Nishith Mohnot
Senior Manager of Business Systems
QSC
We consider e2open global trade software as a game changer. It has enabled us to gain in efficiency, follow the evolution of trade rules timely and accurately, and exploit the necessary free trade agreements. It enhanced our overall competitiveness.
Jean-Paul Verschoor
Origin Responsible Manager
Renault Group
Centralizing and automating our export control processes, and particularly our trade compliance, not only reduces risk for Sandvik, but opens new opportunities to do more business worldwide.
Sandvik
"We now have full visibility and control—from classification and RPS screening to qualifying for free trade agreements. We can even see in advance where we avoid import duties, giving us a direct financial benefit that we can reinvest in other areas."
Edwin Tolsma
Trade Compliance, Global Domains and IT Lead
Signify
With e2open’s Global Trade Management, we’ve transformed a chaotic, manual review process into an automated workflow that approves cases in under a minute, filters out low‑risk transactions, and gives us confidence that every shipment and download complies with global export and sanctions laws. The time saved now lets our team focus on auditing, partnering with supply chain, and ensuring our products are correctly classified worldwide—while still processing around 1,000 orders a week within eight hours.
Sophos
We rebranded e2open Concierge Services as Help Desk Plus and it has become a real extension of our company. The Help Desk Plus has enabled us to meet our partners where we need them and where they need us and make it as seamless and as easy as possible for our partners to go to market for their customers.
Sarah Masessa
Global Partner Platform and Communications Manager
VMware by Broadcom
Streamline your booking process
Efficiently execute ocean booking requests with carriers and NVOCCs using one collaborative platform
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
E2open Ocean Bookings, powered by INTTRA, is a TMS-neutral platform that provides a single connection to the world's largest multi-carrier ocean network. It allows shippers and logistics teams to manage bookings, shipping instructions, VGM data, and carrier confirmations through one collaborative platform—eliminating the need to manage multiple carrier portals and manual processes.
The platform provides access to over 100 ocean carriers and non-vessel owning common carriers (NVOCCs). The INTTRA network is the world's most extensive multi-carrier ocean network, and new carriers are regularly added. You can explore available lanes and carriers directly within the platform based on your departure and arrival points.
Yes. e2open Ocean Bookings is TMS-neutral, meaning it integrates seamlessly with major TMS platforms. It acts as a connection layer between your systems and the carrier network, allowing you to continue using your existing TMS while benefiting from direct carrier connectivity and standardized digital communications.
The platform enables electronic submission of VGM data and other required shipment details to carriers, helping you meet SOLAS and compliance requirements. Standardized digital connections support accurate data transmission, reduce cargo onboarding delays, and create an audit trail for all carrier submissions and bill of lading workflows—ensuring complete compliance documentation.
Based on customer implementations, teams typically see 20-40% productivity improvement, 60-70% increase in speed and on-time performance, and 50% reduction in unplanned costs and fees such as detention and demurrage. Results vary based on current processes and shipment volume.