News / 'We can make every forwarder in India a digital forwarder in a week'

Chennai-based start-up FreightBro is the latest firm looking to convert India’s small and medium-sized freight forwarders from paper-based businesses into “highly efficient digital marketplaces”.

By automating internal rate management and reducing “pre-shipment inefficiencies” the cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution allows forwarders to boost sales and cut quotation times and costs by 90% and 50% respectively, FreightBro claims.

“Typically, shipments which are ready lie idle in the shipper’s warehouse for three-to-four days just to get rates and finalise the quote because of the back-and-forth ...