Hong Kong based arl-shipping.com Limited and Dutch headquartered Esoware B.V. announced they have teamed up to complement the two companies' offerings. Under the terms of the partnership the companies will work together to provide customers with more comprehensive container terminal solutions including both standard systems deployment and custom systems design and development.

The partnership between arl-shipping.com and Esoware is aimed at ports and container terminals, inland and rail terminals, which need IT solutions for management, automation and optimization.

Esoware, Managing Director, Frans Jol, states "We provide our clients with affordable planning and automation software geared for their size of operation. Some of our clients need support in other specialist areas for planning or optimizing their operation, which our partnership with arl-shipping.com delivers. Together, we can offer a wider solution assembled from components, that address a wide range of planning, optimization and operations management for our clients". arl-shipping.com's director and CEO, Ren Bendt, adds: "We are very pleased to partner with Esoware. We look forward to servicing our clients with advanced solutions, which include our own, and Esoware tools and capabilities".

The largest customers of arl-shipping.com include Port of Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia and DP World, Jebel Ali, UAE, which use optimization solutions for a number of planning functions. Container control, yard planning and vessel planning solutions from Esoware are deployed at various ports in Italy and North Europe.