FourKites Awarded Patent for Unprecedented Visibility into End-to-End Ocean Documentation

October 16, 2022

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Leading supply chain visibility company FourKites today announced that the U.S. Patent Office has granted the company U.S. Patent No. 11,461,731 for its unique ocean shipment developments, which offer worldwide shippers and their partners with complete visibility into all of the complex paperwork requirements at every leg of every ocean shipment. These capabilities, which are readily available to FourKites' Dynamic Ocean ® clients, provide carriers the actionable intelligence and automation they require to rapidly and easily determine and deal with any potentially missing, incorrect or incomplete supporting paperwork.

Port congestion, vessel hold-ups and insufficient or incorrect documentation prevail difficulties for ocean shippers, who consistently pay millions of d ....

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