Bethesda, Maryland and Mexico City - Consolhub simplifies the booking process for ocean consolidated shipments (small shipments that are grouped in a single container by a shipping provider). Importers and exporters can see in one place different shipping providers, routes, prices and book online. This service speeds up the processing time from 2-3 days to 30 mins by cutting out the tens of phone calls, emails needed for a single transaction in this old-world shipping industry.
In addition, the client saves time by having its documentation pre-validated by the system and inputs it only once so it can be used to book additional services that Consolhub provides such as cargo insurance, customs agent services or land transportation to or from the port.
“We are excited to begin 2019 with the formal launch of Consolhub. Our soft launch in September allowed us to fine-tune the system with real data from our initial shipping partners. Even if we have been in the ocean freight industry for many years, we still encountered a few issues in our effort to standardize quotes due to the wide disparities on how each shipping company quotes, but also the low level of digitalization of this process.
Currently, when a client asks directly for a quote to a shipping company the quote can include up to 20 different pricing concepts and the names of those concepts can change depending on the provider. We are happy that we can now provide a much standard quote that will make life simpler to our clients by being able to compare different shipping options.” said Alan Ocana CEO and Co-founder of Consolhub.
Consolhub is part of the Digitalization Megatrend in the logistics and supply chain industry, one of the several megatrends (Digitalization, sustainability, infrastructure, e-commerce) that are changing this industry as defined by the Boston Consulting Group logistics report.
Specifically, in the maritime sector, a new breed of startups has emerged in recent years. The Startupwarf report has identified supply chain optimization as one of the main categories of innovation in the ocean sector where Consolhub is proud to have been included in this report.
“In the beta release our clients have already benefited of our service by being able to choose among 1000 different routes with leading NVOCCs consolidators like Translogistic, Fast Forward Consolidators and Overseas. At the same time, Consolhub is helping our shipping partners to increase their profit by accessing new clients, automating client documentation and significantly reducing sales cycles.” Said Alan Ocana
