News / New INTTRA cargo and space matching tool could be a boon for forwarders

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Ocean electronic trading platform INTTRA today released a new application to help freight forwarders match carrier capacity allocation with a shipper’s actual volumes.

The Container Forecasting and Allocation Solutions Tool (C-FAST) looks to align the forecast of freight forwarders’ customers’ anticipated container volume to carrier available capacity availability.

The idea came from some of its larger freight forwarding customers, including Hellmann Worldwide Logistics and JAS Worldwide Management, which had experienced difficulties with matching up internal demand from shippers with how much space ...