In light of the Coronavirus pandemic, FreightBro- a freight technology start-up digitising the manual processes in forwarding wants to support forwarders by providing a digital platform for getting bookings from shippers, enhance remote collaboration between forwarder’s internal teams and external stakeholders. This will ensure that cargo movements don’t suffer due to lack of visibility and forwarders are able to deliver on their service commitments to customers, while working remotely.
FreightBro will provide forwarders with their own branded platform free of cost to use till April 30, 2020, which can be accessed via iOS and Android apps, to offer spot rates, receive online bookings, handle inquiries and setup custom dashboards to manage all key metrics. Dedicated shipment management modules will be setup for operations teams to work remotely and update customers on shipment milestones, share key documents and provide tracking updates in real time. Our teams will be on hand to swiftly set this up so that forwarders can start executing on the platform right away.
“These are tough times and with governments trying to flatten the curve of the coronavirus spread with social distancing, we decided to do our bit for the freight ecosystem,” said Raghavendran Viswanathan, CEO, FreightBro.
