Procure international freight rates via competitive bidding. FCL, Sea LCL, and Air — with container-level charge comparison and auto CBM calculation.
Post a shipping requirement, receive bids from multiple freight forwarders, and compare rates across 7 charge heads — all in real-time.
Add unlimited containers per listing. Each with size, quantity, weight, volume, and dimension fields.
Enter L×W×H in cm → auto-calculates CBM and volumetric weight. AIR: chargeable = max(gross, volumetric).
Live USD→INR conversion. Admin sets rate, all bids auto-convert to comparable INR totals.
Professional HTML allocation letter with company branding, container breakdown, and terms.
Broadcast announcements to all shipping bidders. Priority levels, read tracking, WhatsApp push.
10 toggleable permissions per user: create, edit, cancel, allocate, approve, view bids, reports, etc.
Reduce freight costs by 15-30% with competitive bidding.
Book a Free Demo →These are the problems plants describe before they change anything. Not all of them apply to every company — most companies recognise four or five.
One forwarder quotes all-in, another quotes ocean freight and lists local charges separately, a third leaves THC out entirely. Comparing them is a manual exercise every single time.
The rate looked lowest until documentation, THC, seal and detention were added. The cheapest quote becomes the most expensive shipment.
A quote valid for seven days sits in an inbox for five while approvals move, and the booking happens at a rate nobody agreed to.
There is no record of what the same lane cost last month, so each enquiry is negotiated as if it were the first.
USD quotes converted on a calculator at whatever rate someone used that day, with no record of which rate was applied.
Nobody compares the true cost of air against sea for a given cargo-ready date, so the mode is chosen by habit or panic.
The forwarder list is whoever the team has used before. New forwarders with better lane strength never get asked.
Each of these answers one of the problems above. Nothing here needs new hardware or a new team.
Post a shipment once. Forwarders bid on it, and you see FCL, LCL and air side by side with the same charge heads.
You define the heads — ocean freight, THC, documentation, seal, detention, local — and every forwarder quotes into the same structure. There is nothing left to add later.
Comparison is on what lands in your account, not on the headline rate. Per-container and per-BL views both available.
USD quotes convert at a rate that is captured with the bid, so the comparison is reproducible months later.
What Nhava Sheva to Hamburg cost last month, last quarter, and who quoted what. The next enquiry starts from evidence.
The auction closes in time for the booking, not after it.
Packing list, invoice and any certificate sit with the listing, so forwarders quote on the real cargo.
Award the shipment, or convert a winning rate into a lane contract for the quarter.
The other side of the same market. A process that only works for the buyer does not stay competitive for long.
You never learn whether you lost by five dollars or five hundred, so your next quote is another guess.
Weight, dimensions, cargo-ready date or incoterm missing — so you quote with assumptions and re-quote when they change.
Your number gets shown to the incumbent, who matches it and keeps the business.
You quote, you hear nothing, and you find out weeks later that the shipment sailed with someone else.
Suppliers, buyers, forwarders and transporters use BidBegin free. There is no fee to be invited, to bid, or to win.
No fee to be invited, no fee to quote, no commission on what you win.
Origin, destination, mode, incoterm, cargo-ready date, weight and documents are all on the listing before you quote.
Your rank is live while the window is open, so you can decide whether to sharpen — without seeing anyone else's number or showing yours.
The same charge heads for everyone means you are not undercut by someone who simply left THC out.
Every company posting is onboarded and verified. These are actual shipments with actual cargo-ready dates.
The award states the rate, the charge heads and the terms. Nothing is renegotiated after the fact.