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ODeX helps the maritime industry swiftly ride the digital wave as it connects stakeholders to manage their workflow and collect payments Maritime industry due to its complex nature has been a late entrant to digitalisation. The opportunities clearly lie in protecting the budget while increasing the efficiency, say industry captains. Digitalization helps to deliver better business results and to better control trading and operational risks in one place. Timing is, of course, another opportunity as shipping and trading companies need to be able to react much faster today than they did in the past. Helping the industry ride the digital wave smoothly is ODeX – An Online Document Exchange Platform to connect stakeholders, manage workflows and collect payments. ODeX makes sure that all its stakeholders are privy to a single source of information. With seamless tracking on its portal, stakeholders right from Custom house brokers, to importers, and everyone else in between can manage their consignment efficiently. Transparency is ensured with each consignment, so that everyone is on the same page, and everyone is updated. This is important as stakeholders need to know if their documents have been approved, and if it hasn’t, they get immediately notified on the portal automatically. This saves them a lot of time. Being a pioneer in helping the shipping industry with digitalisation, ODeX ensures to remove all bottlenecks in the process such that all stakeholders have a smooth experience during the shipping cycle. Being among the first few platforms in India to connect all major stakeholders in ocean shipping, below is an account on how each stakeholder in the shipping cycle benefits at ODeX. Read more about Liji Nowal's interview with Omer Ahmed Siddiqui, Associate Editor at Maritime Gateway .