Rate & Quote Ocean
Ocean Freight Software for Rates & Booking
Manage global sea freight pricing, contract tariffs, and automated booking in one central platform. Freightos for Forwarders provides sales and pricing teams with instant door-to-door quoting, real-time rate management, and seamless carrier connectivity.
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What Is Ocean Freight Software?
Ocean freight software is a specialized digital platform that centralizes sea freight pricing, contract management, door-to-door quoting, and booking for logistics providers. Replacing manual carrier portals and static rate spreadsheets, it automates complex pricing workflows across trade lanes to deliver instant quotes, streamlined operations, and faster sales.
10,000+
Rate queries handled daily across global ocean lanes
< 2 Mins
Average ocean freight booking time across trade lanes
100%
Lane Visibility
Access direct API connections and real-time spot or contract rate management across major ocean liners and top LCL consolidators
Helping Modern Forwarders Price and Quote, Accurately and Quickly
Stop Drowning in Outdated Spreadsheets
Take command of your ocean pricing for everything from carrier contracts to local charges. Easily modify global surcharges, implement route-specific pricing rules, tap account-specific pricing and receive notifications when underlying carrier rates change. Since ocean freight changes quickly, you can also access real-time rates from leading ocean liners and LCL consolidators via direct API connections in our easy to use ocean freight software.
Elevate Your Booking Experience
Search and book rates anywhere, anytime with our intuitive platform. Quickly identify optimal routing based on rates and transit times, with all carrier surcharges, fees, and markups displayed transparently. Enjoy direct digital booking integration with key ocean liners, complete with shipment status confirmation and tracking capabilities.
Grow Your Revenue
Convert more quotes to bookings with faster response times and professional, branded documentation. Increase profit margins by eliminating pricing errors and optimizing carrier selection. Expand your ocean freight business without adding headcount, leveraging the same efficient digital workflows you use for air freight.
Fully Integrate with Your Forwarder Ecosystem
Unlock more competitive pricing and increased revenue with true-to-market air and ocean market intelligence, live event feeds and rate benchmarking. Then see those see inline across Freightos Rate & Quote to inform better user operations.
Core Capabilities
Ocean Capacity Management
Search, compare, and secure LCL/FCL space in seconds. AI-powered routing lets you evaluate multi-segment ocean options, verify live transit times, and benchmark rates side-by-side using Terminal.
Ocean Freight Contract Management
Automatically ingest long-term tariffs and spot rates into a unified view. Ocean freight software maps complex surcharges, local fees, and validity windows instantly, eliminating manual data entry errors.
Global Business Management
Scale operations across international teams seamlessly. Configure custom branch settings, enforce standardized regional markup rules, and control multi-office workflows from a central platform. Complete with 70+ languages and automatic currency conversion.
Traditional vs. Ocean Freight Software
| Traditional Workflow | Freightos Ocean Software | |
|---|---|---|
| Workflow & Quoting | Slow email turns and manual spreadsheet math prone to costly errors. | Instantly generate instant door-to-door spot quotes with pre-set profit margins. |
| Tariff Management | Juggling static Excel rate sheets and logging into fragmented carrier portals. | Zero-touch rate ingestion. Automatically standardize and map complex FCL/LCL tariffs. |
| Capacity Search | Slow load times and single-carrier lookup with basic routing options. | Compare multi-segment routes, transit times, and live ocean capacity side-by-side. |
| Integrations & Intelligence | Disconnected software tools, static PDF quotes, and blind pricing guesses. | Native TMS connectivity backed by live Terminal market intelligence. |
How to Choose Ocean Freight Software
Selecting the right ocean freight software requires evaluating how well the platform scales with your operations. Key criteria to evaluate include:
Your Partner for Logistics Digitization
Real-Time Connections
Access spot and contract rates via API from leading ocean liners and LCL consolidators.
Better Support
Localized apps, regional support, and highly trained freight experts means help is just a click away.
Leading With Vision
Constant industry-leading innovation, whether eBookings, dynamic quoting, data insights, or more.
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