ODeX is an one stop solution provider for digitizing the shipping ecosystem and has a product used by all the shipping stakeholders in India.
As part of ODeX’s proposition, it already works with Invoice Bazaar in India for enabling payment settlements to shipping companies. ODeX along with Invoice Bazaar’s is working on solving the supply chain finance problem in the shipping industry. The investment from Invoice Bazaar will be used towards expanding ODeX’s footprint in Middle East as well as towards product development.
ODeX - An Online Document Exchange Platform connects all the stakeholders in the shipping ecosystem, manage the workflow in the ecosystem by digitizing the manual documentation exchange, collect payments and is now able to offer early payment option with the partnership with Invoice Bazaar. In the last 30 months since founding, ODeX has built an ecosystem with marquee shipping lines including COSCO Shipping, CMA CGM, Hapag-Llyod, Hamburg Sud, clients including Reliance, TATA Group, CEAT, Vedanta, DHL, Godrej, and a number of customer brokers, freight brokers, banks, CFS, Weighbridge operators in its network.
ODeX has the platform that can scale up across emerging markets. Shipping is a USD 7 trillion economy and business from documentation automation is a multi-billion dollar opportunity, claims the company. 556 million containers (TeU’s) carried across the world generates 11 billion documents which leads to a huge opportunity for trade document digitization and finance.
Invoice Bazaar is seeking to expand its supply chain finance reach to the shipping industry through this minority acquisition. With presence in the UAE, and a limited presence in India, the 2 year old fintech company has crossed early payment volumes of AED 100 million (USD 27 million) in the last 18 months since it started operating.
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