The Cargo Marketplace: A Public Site

The Cargo Marketplace provides a venue for buyers and sellers of transportation services to negotiate their requirements in a one-to-one or one-to-many fashion. It is ideally suited for individuals or companies seeking competitive rates for spot shipments or for service providers looking to post their available capacity.

The Cargo Marketplace offers a powerful means of finding new parties for short and long-term transportation relationships.

Features

  • Brings buyers and sellers of transportation services together in one venue.
  • System is easy to use and requires no software purchase or installation.
  • Utilizes the internet to allow buyers and sellers to negotiate cargo shipments and available service across any geography and any mode of transport.
  • Provides multimodal capabilities to support land, sea and air transport with functionality for the shipping of full and partial truckloads, full and partial ocean containers and air shipments through freighter charters or normal scheduled service.
  • Supports negotiations for discrete moves on a spot basis, as well as numerous transactions over time.
  • Allows equipment and service to be offered for negotiation, as well as commodities.
  • Accompanying CargoMail feature provides real-time, no-cost alerts when business that matches a user’s pre-defined interests is posted on the system.
  • Supplemented by desktop organizational tool called My Traffic Manager, which provides visibility to all your buying and selling behavior in one consolidated location.

Benefits

  • Allows you to save time finding quality service providers and shippers.
  • Competitive negotiation promotes market-driven pricing to save you money.
  • Vastly increases customer reach and visibility.
  • Promotes new relationships in a cost-effective fashion.
  • You do not pay to post an offer on the system - you pay a small transaction fee only when you complete a negotiation.
  • Parties concluding negotiations are not contractually bound to work with one another.
  • Small commissions apply only for parties who engage in a business relationship.