Kontainers’ digital platform expands to offer air freight and trucking

Freight software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Kontainers has expanded the modal offering of its flagship Enterprise platform to include trucking and air freight for its largest customers.
The platform, which is designed for the largest freight forwarders and carriers, has been expanded beyond the ocean freight sector to include self-service instant rates, booking, customs, air freight, trucking, FCL/LCL, global schedules, B/Ls [bills of lading], chat support, dashboard analytics, payment system...

https://theloadstar.com/kontainers-digital-platform-expands-to-offer-air-freight-and-trucking/

Kontainers Expands Enterprise Capabilities With Addition Of Airfreight And Trucking

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Kontainers, an e-commerce software provider for freight brands, announces the addition of full trucking and air freight to its flagship product, Enterprise, which is designed for large freight brands with heavy transactional volumes and the need to highly customize interfaces.

Kontainers Enterprise provides a complete digital experience for freight forwarders, ocean carriers and their customers including self-service instant rates, booking, customs, air freight, trucking, FCL/LCL, global...

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Tech Q&A: Kontainers’ Graham Parker expects huge staff cost saves as freight tech rolls on

This week the chief executive and founder of Kontainers, Graham Parker (pictured above), kindly shared with me his thoughts about the latest strategic developments for the company he leads as well as the competitive environment in freight tech.
He discussed what works and what doesn’t in this new IT age which so often reminds me of a goldrush for many established players and outsiders. It’s the land of opportunity that could …

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How strong is the digital traction in container shipping?

Getting hard numbers about the take-up of digital services in container shipping – whether it is booking freight through neutral online platforms, or utilising digital-first freight forwarders – has hitherto been pretty difficult, which has left the debate of shipping’s digitisation often feeling obscured. However, here’s Lars Jensen to the rescue, with a LinkedIn post that fills in some of the blanks and clearly indicates that the adoption of digital …

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Kontainers publishes SaaS eBook to take forwarders into the digital future

Kontainers, the industry-leading e-commerce software provider for freight brands, today announces publication of its “Ten SaaS tools that will take your forwarding business into the next decade” eBook, which is designed to help forwarders and freight brands make sense of SaaS tools and their...

https://theloadstar.com/kontainers-publishes-saas-ebook-to-take-forwarders-into-the-digital-future/

Kontainers Releases SaaS eBook To Take Forwarders Into The Digital Future

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Kontainers, the industry-leading e-commerce software provider for freight brands, announces the publication of its “Ten SaaS tools that will take your forwarding business into the next decade” eBook, which is designed to help forwarders and freight brands make sense of SaaS tools and their business value in the digital age.

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SaaS is a highly scalable, cost-effective option with minimal downtime and offers a seamless transfer of data through APIs...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/kontainers-releases-saas-ebook-to-take-forwarders-into-the-digital-future/

Ceva the latest 3PL to sign up for Kontainers’ Enterprise platform

Ceva Logistics has become the latest 3PL to sign up to use the Kontainers Enterprise suite that enables the largest freight forwarders to rapidly digitise the shipper-facing aspects of their operations. 
Kontainers revealed at last night that Ceva had signed a seven-year deal to utilise its Enterprise platform, which enables the larger 3PLs to interact more effectively with smaller shippers. 
Enterprise provides a digital interface across 12 modules: instant rates; booking; Customs; …

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Essential ‘will democratise the freight forwarding industry’, claims Kontainers

Smaller freight forwarders looking to digitise their operations and provide an online customer-facing service received a new option today as freight software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Kontainers unveiled its new platform.
Kontainers Essential is designed to allow small forwarders to set up a website with advanced quotation functionality “in the space of a few minutes”, effectively allowing them to compete with the new breed of digital-first forwarders.
“It’s the equivalent of [website...

https://theloadstar.com/essential-will-democratise-the-freight-forwarding-industry-claims-kontainers/

The Morrow Roberson Road Test: Kontainers and Chain.io – a promising partnership

Kontainers – once described by The Loadstar as the “swashbuckling antidote to digital disruptors” – is a SaaS company that provides online platforms, branded for clients, for freight forwarders and shipping lines.  
The company has signed up an impressive array of clients, including Toll Holdings and Maersk. 
Kontainers offers a practical solution that integrates into customers’ existing systems and helps to manage bookings, rate comparisons, customs, payments, data analytics and more....

https://theloadstar.com/the-morrow-roberson-road-test-kontainers-and-chain-io-a-promising-partnership/