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Synoptima Cargo

“Your freight rates are competitive. Your quoting process isn’t.”

Cargo digitises the entire freight quoting, booking, and rate management workflow — replacing email-based, manually intensive processes with an always-on digital platform that delivers instant quotes, automated booking, and margin-protective rate management across all modes and lanes.

Instant quotes. Digital booking.
Margins protected.

In freight, speed of quote is speed of sale. And yet most forwarders and shippers still rely on manual rate lookup, email chains, and spreadsheet-based booking processes that introduce delay, error, and margin leakage at every step.

Cargo gives freight service providers and shippers a branded, cloud-based digital experience — one where customers can receive instant quotes, book on demand, and track their shipments in real time. Your brand is front and centre at every touchpoint, while Cargo’s automation handles the complexity behind the scenes.

01

Digital Rate Management

Automate rating and quoting across all modes — air, ocean, road — reducing labour costs and ensuring customers always receive the most competitive, margin-protected rate.

02

Instant Quote-to-Book

Give clients an on-demand booking experience — instant visibility, self-service access, and branded digital engagement from quote through to booking confirmation.

03

Capacity & Schedule Intelligence

Factor live carrier capacity and schedule information into every quote — automatically surfacing service options and recommending optimal routing.

04

Upsell & Add-On Automation

Automatically present high-margin add-on services — insurance, customs clearance, warehousing — at the point of booking when they are most relevant.

05

TMS Integration

Seamlessly connect Cargo to your existing freight forwarder TMS — no rip-and-replace, just a digital customer-facing layer that amplifies what you already have.

06

Shipment Visibility & Tracking

Real-time shipment status for every booking — giving clients the continuous communication and self-service access that today’s market demands.

From manual quoting
to digital freight platform — in four phases.

A Cargo deployment is built around a phased approach — delivering a functioning digital quoting experience quickly, then layering in additional automation and integration over time.

01
Freight Assessment

Map your current quoting workflow, rate structures, booking volumes, and margin profile. Identify where digitalisation delivers the fastest return — by mode, lane, or customer segment.

02
Rate Configuration

Load your rate cards, surcharges, and margin rules into Cargo’s digital rate management engine. Configure the logic that protects margin and ensures competitive positioning on every quote.

03
Platform Deployment

Launch your branded digital quoting and booking experience. Connect to your TMS for seamless booking flow-through. Go live with your first digital customers — often within 4–6 weeks.

04
Revenue Growth

Use Cargo’s digital platform to prospect new clients, re-engage dormant accounts, and upsell high-margin services — turning your digital capability into a competitive sales advantage.

Cargo in action across
freight and forwarding operations.

These illustrative scenarios reflect the freight digitalisation challenges Cargo is designed to address — and the commercial outcomes forwarders and shippers are achieving.

Freight Forwarding

Digital quoting platform
for instant client bookings

A mid-sized freight forwarder operating across Asia-Australia lanes was losing quotes to competitors who could respond faster. Their manual quoting process took 4–8 hours; competitors with digital platforms were responding in minutes.

Cargo’s digital platform reduced average quote response time from 6 hours to under 2 minutes, increasing quote-to-book conversion rate by 34% within the first quarter.
Ocean Carrier

Self-service booking platform
reducing cost of service

An ocean carrier was spending significant operational resource handling booking inquiries and rate requests through manual channels — primarily email and phone — for a customer base that increasingly expected digital self-service.

Cargo’s self-service platform migrated 60% of bookings to digital channels within six months, reducing the cost of serving digital customers by 40% and freeing the sales team for strategic account management.
Shipper / Importer

Rate management across
40 trade lanes

A large importer managing freight across 40 trade lanes had no systematic approach to rate management — rates were negotiated ad hoc, stored in spreadsheets, and compared manually, creating inconsistent procurement outcomes and margin leakage.

Cargo consolidated rate management across all 40 lanes into a single platform, identifying $3.2M in annualised freight procurement savings through systematic carrier benchmarking and consolidation.

Built for freight operators
ready to go digital.

Cargo delivers value for any organisation where freight quoting, booking, and rate management is still a predominantly manual process — and where the competitive and commercial cost of that manual model is becoming impossible to ignore.

Whether you’re a forwarder looking to win more digital-first customers, or a shipper looking to take control of your freight procurement, Cargo meets you where you are.

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Freight Forwarders

Compete with digital-first forwarders by giving clients an instant, branded quoting and booking experience.

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Ocean & Air Carriers

Reduce cost of service and improve customer experience through digital self-service booking and rate management.

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Importers & Shippers

Systematic freight procurement — rate benchmarking, consolidation opportunities, and margin protection across all lanes.

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Manufacturers & Exporters

Digitise outbound freight management — from export quoting through to booking, documentation, and track-and-trace.

Outcomes your commercial
team will present with confidence.

Cargo’s impact flows directly to revenue, margin, and the cost of service — the metrics that freight operators and shippers care about most.

34%
Quote-to-Book Improvement
Faster response times and a frictionless digital booking experience convert more quotes into confirmed bookings.
40%
Reduction in Cost of Service
Digital self-service migrates booking and rate enquiries away from manual channels, reducing the labour cost of serving each customer.
2 min
Average Quote Response Time
Down from hours or days with manual processes — giving your team a decisive speed advantage in competitive freight markets.

Begin with a
Freight Digitalisation Assessment.

A Cargo engagement starts with a structured assessment of your current quoting workflow — mapping the gap between your manual process and what the market now expects, and quantifying the commercial cost of that gap. It’s a concrete deliverable that builds the business case before any deployment decision.

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Cargo works best alongside the full platform.

Orchestration

Synoptima Flow

Multi-enterprise supply chain orchestration — connecting suppliers, carriers, and partners into a unified real-time network view.

eCommerce & Parcel

Synoptima Swift

Intelligent carrier allocation and last-mile automation — the best delivery decision for every order, every time.

Network Intelligence

Synoptima Pulse

Continuous network diagnosis and real-time optimisation — running across Flow, Swift, and Cargo simultaneously.