Your objective is to reduce freight costs. Our business model should never depend on making your freight cost more.
INTERNATION FREIGHT IS NOT ONE PRICE
FCL, LCL and air freight can involve dozens of individual charges and hundreds of variables that can influence the final cost of a shipment — across origin, international transport, destination and final delivery.
Rates can be affected by the carrier, route, cargo, weight, volume, equipment, capacity, season, fuel, currency, terminals, ports, depots, documentation, customs requirements, quarantine, storage, detention, demurrage, handling and many other shipment-specific factors.
COMPLEXITY CREATES AN INFORMATION IMBALANCE
The freight provider operates inside this pricing environment every day.
Most importers and exporters don't.
You can see what you have been quoted and what you have been invoiced — but it can be much harder to determine:
What did the freight actually cost?
How much margin has been added?
Why did the price change?
Is an additional charge justified?
What should this shipment really have cost?
This creates an information imbalance between the freight provider and the customer.
THE RETAIL MODEL CAN MAKE THAT PROBLEM WORSE
Under the traditional retail freight model, freight and related services are purchased from carriers and other suppliers and sold to the customer at a retail price.
The customer sees what they are being charged, but may have limited visibility of the underlying cost or the margin contained within the price.
That creates a potential conflict:
You benefit when your freight costs less. A provider earning margin within your freight charges can benefit from maintaining or increasing that margin.
The problem isn't that businesses make a profit.The problem is when you cannot clearly see where the freight cost ends and the provider's margin begins.
FREIGHTFIXED CHANGES THE MODEL
FreightFixed separates what your freight costs from what FreightFixed earns. We establish a verified wholesale baseline for your freight movements and clearly disclose our own fees.
Then we manage your shipments against agreed pricing, routing and service rules.When the invoice arrives, charges are checked against the agreed baseline. Variations and additional costs must be identified, explained and supported by evidence. So instead of simply asking: "What have we been charged?"you can ask:"What should this shipment have cost — and why is there a difference?
"WE BUILT FREIGHTFIXED TO REMOVE THE INFORMATION DISADVANTAGE."
Clearer costs. Clearer fees. Evidence behind the charges. Greater control over your freight. Just transparency.