Are you sick and tired of paying thousands of dollars to your freight forwarders? Do you want to save money on your international freight procurement? The way you negotiate is key. Negotiation saves your business money. It allows you to work towards a lower price, making sure you pay less for your freight procurement. Unfortunately,…
Did you know? 8 is the luckiest number in Chinese culture because of 八 sounds like 發 (fa), which means “wealth”, “fortune”, and “prosper” in Chinese. Even in Japan 8 is considered a lucky number because it is nearly homophonous to the word “Prosperity” (繁栄 han’ei), It is also homophonous to Hachikō. Now you might…
Let me begin with a simple question… How much time and effort do you spend on tracking and tracing your shipments? To find the answer, let’s break this down. Let’s assume you have 500 shipments a month and you work with 7 to 15 shipping lines. To know the current location of all your 500…
Now straight off the bat, you’ll be thinking that the above looks a little strange. How on earth could the biggest cricketing tournament in the world helps reduce my freight charges? Well, as the teams are about to break for drinks, let’s read on, to find out how. First, let’s set the field. You’re a…
We always strive for the convenience of our users. We received a lot of positive feedback to have a GoComet mobile app to increase the accessibility and ease of use. So here we are with the all-new mobile app. The App enables you to upload quotes and stay updated with the status of your rank….
We have made some major improvements to the GoComet dashboard. Now you can have an overview of your freight cost analysis along with the number of containers shipped at a glance on the dashboard. There are two more new additions to the dashboard, Top Logistics Service Providers (LSP) and the Top Export/Import countries based on…
Have you ever wondered to look at the month on month or year on year trend of the freight that you have been paying for your export and import shipments? Would it not be helpful in order to predict the future freight movement or in making sales decisions by factoring in the likely logistics costs?…
There are 40 major shipping lines that transport your cargo from a POL to POD. Once the containers are booked, the job is not done. It is very essential to track the status of the cargo as: 1. The cargo is worth thousands if not millions of dollars2. Lack of knowledge of delays in exports can spoil…
Manufacturers all over the world have been importing and exporting for ages. While international trade has existed throughout history, its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries. This has brought along with it similar operational processes, issues and inefficiencies worldwide. In all the countries, the shipper needs to negotiate…
The days of the Excel spreadsheet is over. Supply chain digitization transforming the management of your global logistics process. The Industries that are genuinely thriving nowadays share something significant in common: a digitized logistics process. And why not? Digitization is the answer to a lot of problems. We have moved on from the primitive times…