SA CEI.BA

Big media hype or big corporate names don't necessarily define the success of a company.
Certain local companies work in the shade, but provide services and goods, sometimes essential. The companies that are presented here, have been created by people from Guadeloupe, men and women, who have brought in their personal properties to create their production unit.

Small units that lead to thoughts about what could be the economic Guadeloupe of tomorrow.

CEIBA at the service of shipping companies

Created in 1999, with a local capital, the Exchange Data Center - Antilles Division is a mutualized community tool that ensure the fast transport of goods passing by the port. A container arrives at the port of Jarry. Some minutes enable its reception, its customs clearance, its storage, its transport by a road haulier, its delivery. Before the creation of CEI.BA, several actors were in charge of this container, it wasn't always easy to track it, and that caused delays in the delivery. Now, the shipping agent, the freight forwarder, the customs officer, the warehouseman, the dockers, the harbour authorities, the road haulier, have access via a simple computer, since they are identified, to all the informations known on this container: what it contains, where it comes from, who he must be delivered to, which customs taxes and port dues must be paid, by who, etc. ' Before the creation of CEI.BA, explains Michèle Montantin, Chief Executive Officer, it was a whole process, more or less chaotic, from one actor to the other, and if the agent or the employee, who knew the procedure or who knew where was the thick bundle of documents which accompanied the container or the goods, was absent, it was making that process stops'.
 
'Seven actors collaborate in the import-export chain, reports Michèle Montantin. With CEI.BA, the procedures are computerized. We know exactly where are the goods, who is in charge of those goods, if they are damaged. We are one of the six French ports where it is mandatory to pass by this platform. Despite this innovation, our prices did not change since 2004'.

CEIBA, CWTC (1st floor) Tél : 0590 32 37 48 / Fax : 0590 32 37 46

Internet site : http://www.ceiba-gp.com

Extract from France Antilles, June 23rd, 2010
Translated by Laurent PHILBERT