A new website will allow a Colchester shipping company's customers to track their cargoes around the world.

Wallis Shipping's sister company Dominion IT Solutions - www.dii.co.uk - has designed the website, which will later offer customers passwords to the site's secure area.

Wallis - one of the leading freight and forwarding agencies in the eastern region - employs 50 people and has an annual turnover of £3m.

Managing director Stuart Gregory explained his company - based on Severalls Industrial Estate - moves shipments worth tens of thousands of pounds between continents each day.

He said: "It is vital customers know exactly where their goods are at any given time."

Through the website at www.wssl.co.uk customers will also be able to ask for quotes, book shipments and calculate exact departures and arrivals because the site is linked to the world time zones calculator.

Added Mr Gregory: "We are using new technology to enhance our personalised service, and, eventually, our tracking system will give clients and us a unique facility to demonstrate our commitment to quality.

"It's also important that this website was created in Colchester and by Colchester people."

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