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Alameda, CA — August 16, 2007 — Geodis Wilson has rolled out an ocean shipment management platform through the GT Nexus Trade and Logistics portal. The system enables Geodis Wilson to exchange data between its Freight Monitor visibility system and its global network of ocean carriers.

Geodis Wilson is part of the Geodis Group. With 26,000 employees in a network spanning 120 countries, the Geodis Group ranks among Europe's top five transport and logistics companies.

In the containerized ocean shipping industry, the data associated with freight in transit resides in different systems all over the world, in many different formats. GT Nexus has already integrated its portal to the systems of all major ocean carriers and standardized that data. Geodis Wilson has now tapped in to the existing network to enhance its Freight Monitor visibility system.

"The ability to exchange information with our carriers through a dedicated technology platform is a strategic priority," said Håkan Nilsson, chief information officer at Geodis Wilson. "With GT Nexus, we are leveraging a system that is already connected to our carrier partners. So instead of embarking on a long, expensive technology project, we did it in a matter of weeks."

The GT Nexus Portal delivers hardware infrastructure, integrations and data management services with all customer rollouts. In some cases, customers have their own proprietary systems and don't need any additional applications. GT Nexus is designed to also serve as a data utility operating behind the scenes, processing, formatting and exchanging information between different systems all over the world.

The GT Nexus portal supports information exchange both ways between Geodis Wilson and multiple ocean carriers. GT Nexus also provides tools and services to monitor and enhance the quality of the data that's flowing through the platform.

The capabilities of the platform will initially support two areas. Carriers feed electronic shipment status and bill of lading information to GT Nexus through existing integrations. The "raw" carrier data is then standardized by GT Nexus and fed directly into the Freight Monitor system, the Geodis Wilson tool that customers use to track their shipments. Geodis Wilson then sends electronic shipping instructions from its systems into GT Nexus. GT Nexus, in turn, standardizes the data and feeds the transactions directly to multiple ocean carrier systems.