Forwarder uses frictionless contract management to centralize rates for its global operation of over 50 offices Chapel Hill, North Carolina - CargoSphere, the leading provider of rate distribution and cloud-based global freight rate management, today announces that Unique Logistics International, an Asian-based global freight forwarder and supply chain management company, has expanded its relationship with CargoSphere to streamline contract and rate management and real-time access to ocean freight rates for its global offices. Unique Logistics’ pricing teams are self-managing ocean carrier rates with CargoSphere’s SUDS (smart upload and diagnostic solution) solution, which enables them to immediately upload carrier rates and subsequent rate updates directly into their centralized rate database in the CargoSphere cloud. “CargoSphere is a user-friendly contract management solution that enables us to quickly and easily manage and distribute rate updates online in real-time to our offices and agents allowing for a faster response to rate requests. This improves customer satisfaction and reinforces Unique Logistics’ customer-oriented approach. Furthermore, CargoSphere’s cloud platform is our path to time and cost savings, as well as improved data accuracy,” said Victor Chau, Assistant General Manager – Ocean, Unique Logistics Group. “We’re seeing greater demand from logistics companies seeking collaborative, cloud technology that increases productivity and helps fuel customer wins for sales and operations. Unique Logistics will reduce a significant amount of time and effort by systematizing their rates in a single database of past, present and future freight rates for more timely quoting, performance evaluation, and invoicing down the line,” said Neil Barni, President of CargoSphere.