Freightwalla aims to revolutionise global shipping and logistics through digitization

Freightwalla is an intelligent digital Freight Forwarder providing instant quotations for ocean freight, real-time tracking and digital solutions to streamline your logistics operations. The technology-enabled freight forwarder offers a full-stack platform for businesses to plan, book and manage their international freight shipments online.

When the global economy was trembling due to the pandemic, the shipping and logistics industry also suffered. Shippers struggled to ship their cargo through the traditional mediums. During the period, Freightwalla rescued many in smooth movement of shipments. A leading digital freight forwarder for international shipments, Freightwalla helped many shippers in hassle-free processing, clearance, and cargo movement of international shipments.

Traditional shipping is a time-consuming manual process due to which several errors creep in, causing companies to lose money and deal with high-risk situations.

Today, Freightwalla witnesses a shift in the exporters and importers mind-set using the digital mode of shipments – evolving as smart shippers. With the digital way of shipments, shippers are now witnessing reduced timeframe in shipments, savings in over-all logistics costs, and stress-free end-to-end cargo movements.

The company aims at bringing increased value and transparency to international shippers by empowering them with state of the art technology and tools to better organise and monitor their logistics

The company has already raised USD 4 million (approximately INR 28 crores) as part of series A funding from India and US-based venture capital firms.

It is a full-stack digital platform for businesses to plan, book, and manage their international freight shipments online. The firm offers freight management services across ocean transport, domestic and foreign in-land trucking, customs clearance, warehousing as also air shipments. Additionally, real-time tracking keeps customers up to date on overseas cargo movements. It has allowed them to make adjustments and planning according to the direction of shipment.

Planning & Costing: Freightwalla offers you efficient scheduling tools along with rate discovery to help you plan your shipments. Save your business money using the comprehensive costing and planning data at your disposal on Freightwalla's platform. The platform also allows users to compare full-cost breakdown including terminal charges, vessel schedules, and transit times in one place. Quite recently, Freightwalla became the first forwarder in India to offer spot rates & instant rates on a single platform.

Online Documentation: Using Freightwalla’s digital platform, you can easily review and approve your checklist and BLs online, auto-generate & manage required shipping documents, get alerts on follow-up actions, and more. This will help you cut out manual follow-ups, save time, and avoid cost escalation that arises as a result.

Tracking and corrective actions: Traditional offline forwarders do not provide tracking for containers once they have left the port of loading. This means that in case of any delays or issues, it may take as much as a week before the information reaches the shipper and he/she can take corrective actions. Freightwalla automatically tracks your cargo across transportation, customs and freight, and alerts you of trans-shipment updates, changes in shipping plans and key shipment milestones. With tools such as real time tracking, the data of all your ongoing shipments can be fetched within seconds, at any time, and necessary actions can be taken without delays. .

Invoicing & Reporting: Freightwalla allows shippers to organize, view & manage all the invoices on a single platform and download daily and monthly spend reports at the click of a button. Users can also analyze historic pricing reports to plan for future shipments in advance.

Freightwalla has taken a step towards digitizing the country's traditional USD 160 billion logistics industry. It aims to bring in transparent, less time-consuming, and cost-effective solutions to the country's exporters and importers. While shippers were working from home, it offered them to book and ship the cargo with just a click of the button.