You have outgrown paying the counter price.
There is a point where shipping stops being an errand and starts being part of how the business runs. Usually it is when someone realises they are booking the same lane every week at whatever rate the website offered that day. That is the point this page is for.
Three stages, and they are not about size
A two-person business shipping high-value goods weekly needs more from us than a large company sending four pallets a year. Find the description that sounds like your week, not the one that matches your headcount.
First shipments abroad
You have an order from another country and no established way to fulfil it. The freight is the smaller problem — the paperwork is the one that catches people out.
- Someone to walk the first shipment through with you
- Documentation prepared rather than explained
- Customs handled by our own brokers
- Plain answers on what your buyer is responsible for
Shipping regularly
The same lanes, most weeks, booked ad hoc every time. This is where a business account stops being administration and starts being cheaper than not having one.
- Rates set against your actual volume and lanes
- A named account contact rather than a queue
- Consolidated monthly invoicing
- Booking and tracking through one portal
- Priority handling when something goes wrong
Multi-market and scaling
Several destinations, more than one mode, and stock that needs to sit somewhere closer to the customer. The point at which freight becomes a supply chain question.
- Multimodal planning across air, ocean, road and rail
- Warehousing and fulfilment where it helps
- System integration so orders flow automatically
- A route into our Supply Chain division when you need it
Less admin, mostly
The rate is what people ask about first. The thing they notice after three months is how much of their week they got back.
One portal
Book, quote, track and pull documents in one place, with your history and addresses already in it.
Monthly invoicing
One statement instead of a payment per shipment, itemised so finance can reconcile it without asking you.
Saved lanes & rates
Your regular routes priced and stored, so a repeat booking takes a minute rather than a fresh quote every time.
Tracking your customers can see
A link you can pass on, so people stop emailing you for updates you would have to ask us for anyway.
Integration where it helps
Orders flowing in from your own systems once volume justifies it. Ask us what we support rather than assuming.
A named contact
Someone who knows your lanes and your deadlines, reachable directly. Around the clock, every day.
What actually moves your rate
Volume is only one of five, and on its own it is rarely the one that helps most. Knowing the other four is how a small shipper gets a better rate than a larger one on the same lane.
The obvious one. More freight buys a better unit rate, but it plateaus faster than most people expect — and it is the hardest of the five to change deliberately.
Freight we can plan for is cheaper to move than freight that appears on a Friday. A forecast you actually stick to is worth more than an extra pallet.
Every trade lane is busier one way than the other. Shipping in the quiet direction, or being flexible on timing, is frequently the largest single saving available.
Dense freight and bulky freight price completely differently. Packaging changes that reduce volumetric weight can move a rate more than a volume increase would.
Clean documentation, correct classifications and addresses that exist. Accounts that are straightforward to run cost less to run, and that reaches the rate eventually.
Four steps, and no contract at step one
You are not committing to anything by finding out what your lanes would cost. Plenty of these conversations end with us saying you are fine as you are.
Send your shipments
Three months of history if you have it — lanes, weights, frequency. A rough list is enough to start.
We price it
Your actual lanes, priced against what you are paying now, with the difference shown line by line.
A straight answer
Including "this would not save you enough to be worth the change" if that is what the numbers say.
Set up and ship
Account opened, portal access issued, named contact introduced, and your saved lanes loaded ready to book.
Send three months of shipments. That is the whole ask.
No forecast, no tender document, no commitment. Lanes, weights and how often — and you will get a priced comparison against what you pay now, plus an honest view on whether changing is worth the disruption.
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