Port Cost Management

Many cruise operators have integrated their hotel and technical procurement with their A/P and G/L systems, but the integration of port related expenses has proven to be difficult. The challenges come from certain industry practices, pre-payment of charges, the variety of port related fees, the differences in fee calculations, reluctances of port agents to change manual processes, invoices in foreign languages and the lack of suitable software.

The MXP Port Costs Management software module provides you with a complete set of tools to replace inefficient and error prone manual processes.

• Capture everything about a port and its costs
• Consolidate all port related expenses into one place
• Port cost templates are configured for each port
• Purchase orders or Performa invoices are created from port cost templates to facilitate order placement and pre-payments
• The ships can update port information like the height of a pier at low and high tide, or photos taking by the navigation officer
• Port agents participate in maintaining port data/costs through the MarineXchange e-commerce portal
• Labor intensive tasks like checking pier availability, confirming a call, and itinerary change notifications have been made easy by MXP through the integration with the MarineXchange e-commerce portal and the use of wizards
• Automation and batch jobs are fully logged for inquiry and accountability reasons.