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A bill of lading that is never re-typed

Shipper, consignee, vessel, ports and cargo come from the job the shipment already lives in. Fewer keystrokes means fewer of the transcription errors that hold a container at the port.

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Walk through a bill of lading

This is the real bill-of-lading form, running in your browser on a sample shipment. Nothing here is saved, sent or downloaded — there is no account behind it and no request leaves this page.

Edit any field, add or remove containers, and walk through to the preview. Reload the page and the sample comes back exactly as it was.

Bills of lading — new documentExample— this panel is an illustration, not real customer data

Shipper and consignee

Who is sending the cargo, and who is receiving it. In the product these arrive from the awarded job.

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Step 1 of 4: Shipper and consignee

The real bill of lading asks for about sixty fields across 7 steps: references, shipper, consignee, notifying agents, route and dates, cargo, then notes and insurance. This preview covers 4 of them — parties, route and vessel, cargo, and the document itself.

In the product most of those fields arrive already filled from the awarded job, and your progress is kept between sittings. Neither of those can be shown without an account, so neither is pretended here.

Shipper
Consignee
The product's own form and validation rules, on a sample shipment. 4 of the real 7 steps. Nothing is saved, sent or downloaded.

What it changes

Built from the shipment record

Parties, route and cargo carry over from the awarded job, so the document agrees with the booking by construction rather than by proofreading.
Document lineageExample— this panel is an illustration, not real customer data

Hover or focus any document to see what the three of them share.

The reference and the lane are entered once, on the inquiry. The bill of lading and the invoice read them; nobody re-keys a port.

  • Sixty fields, asked ten at a time

    A bill of lading is a long document. LogCrew asks for it in seven short steps and saves your progress, so it can be finished in two sittings.

  • Status that reflects the cargo

    Pending, in transit, on hold, delivered, telex released — the real states a document moves through, each with the action that belongs to it.

  • Held documents surface themselves

    Anything on hold appears on the operations dashboard, so a stuck document is noticed on the day rather than at the week-end review.

  • Linked to its invoice

    Each B/L connects to the invoices raised against it, so a query about a charge lands on the document that explains it.

  • A clean PDF, on demand

    Generate a properly formatted document with your own branding at any point in the shipment.

What you get

Setting up
  • Create from an awarded job, or from scratch
  • Auto-generated B/L numbers, or bring your own
  • Shipper, consignee and notifying agents captured once
  • Your branding on the generated document
Day to day
  • Container-level cargo lines with weight and volume totals
  • Status: pending, in transit, on hold, delivered, telex released
  • Search by B/L number, shipper or consignee
  • Bulk notification to update several parties at once
Following through
  • Expected and actual delivery dates tracked separately
  • Link one or more invoices to a bill of lading
  • PDF download at any stage
  • Full status history on every document

What it looks like in the product

  • Record lineageExample— this panel is an illustration, not real customer data

    Hover or focus any document to see what the three of them share.

    The reference and the lane are entered once, on the inquiry. The bill of lading and the invoice read them; nobody re-keys a port.

    Built from the shipment that exists

    Parties, ports and cargo are carried from the awarded job, so the figure on the bill of lading and the figure on the invoice are the same figure rather than two copies kept in agreement by hand.

  • Document formExample— this panel is an illustration, not real customer data
    1. CompletedWhat are you shipping?
    2. Current stepWhere is it going?
      POL / Pickup location
      Jebel Ali
      POD / Delivery location
      Rotterdam
      Region
      Middle East
    3. Not startedWho should see it?
    4. Not startedBudget and timeline
    Four steps, validated one at a time. The lane and region on step two decide which agencies are matched.

    Sixty fields, seven steps

    The document is long because the document is long. Grouping it into steps means each screen asks for one thing, and the progress rail says how much is actually left.

How it works

  1. Start from the shipment

    Open an awarded job and create the bill of lading against it. The parties and the route are already known.

  2. Fill it in, in stages

    Details, shipper, consignee, notifying agents, route and dates, cargo, then notes. Seven short steps, and your progress is kept if you leave and come back.

  3. Move it in transit

    Mark the document in transit when the vessel sails. Anything that stalls can be put on hold, which surfaces it on the dashboard.

  4. Bill against it

    Link the invoices raised for this shipment, so charges and documents stay attached to one another.

  5. Close it out

    Record actual delivery and mark it delivered, or telex released where the trade calls for it.

What it connects to

The same record carries through every module, so nothing is re-keyed between them.

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Questions

Fewer keystrokes, fewer held containers

Create a bill of lading from the shipment that already exists, and let the ones that stall put their hands up.

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