Introduction
Seafreight carriers operate according to sailing schedules. The application allows these schedules to be created together with their related information. During sea export shipment creation, when entering the voyage details, it is then possible to view and select sailings from the schedule and apply these to the shipment.
Description
The sailing schedule application presents a table showing all existing sailings together with extensive details about these sailing. There is a menu bar to modify the sailings and search functions to find sailings based on ports, date ranges and keywords.
New
This function on the menu bar will open the sailing schedule editor where a new sailing schedule may be created.
Edit
This function on the menu bar will open the schedule highlighted in the overview using the sailing schedule editor . This will allow an existing sailing schedule to be edited.
Delete
This function on the menu bar will delete the schedule highlighted in the overview.
Refresh
This function on the menu bar will update the list of sailing schedules to ensure the latest information is visible.
Sailing Schedules
The sailing schedules window lists all available sailings or those matching any filter criteria. the table shows:
- Voyage number
- Departure port
- ETS (Estimated time of sailing)
- Liner Agent
- Vessel Name
- Destination port
- ETA (Estimated time or arrival)
The sailing schedules listed may be sorted by clicking the title of each column.
From Port
To view sailing from a particular port, type the name of the port or the port code. This is a full search text field that will search the database of all available sea ports.
To Port
To view sailing to a particular port, type the name of the port or the port code. This is a full search text field that will search the database of all available sea ports.
Earliest ETS
To search the list of sailings from a defined depart date, enter the earliest sailing date that should be used as the start point for the search. This is a date and time field and so the calendar function is available to the right. The results will include only sailings that occur on or after this depart date.
Earliest ETA
To search the list of sailings up until a defined arrival date, enter the latest arrival date that should be used for the search. This is a date and time field and so the calendar function is available to the right. The results will include only sailings that arrive on or prior to this arrival date.
Type to search
This full search text field allows all tariffs to be searched using particular keywords such as vessel names, voyages, port names etc.