Flexport: Making Global Trade Easy and Accessible for Everyone

First to market with a purpose-built cloud software and data analytics platform, Flexport today serves more than 10,000 clients and suppliers across more than 200 countries, offering a full range of services, including ocean, air, truck and rail freight, drayage & cartage, warehousing, customs brokerage, financing and insurance – all informed and powered by Flexport software platform.

Flexport Vision

Flexport team believes all people should be seamlessly connected in order to conduct trade, without regard for physical borders, boundaries, or political agendas. That’s why the firm is building the first Operating System for Global Trade, a strategic operating model that combines technology and analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.

Brief About the Company

At Flexport, expertise is a core component in the Operating System for Global Trade. That’s why it is led by industry experts with decades of technology and supply chain experience who are driven to make global trade easier for everyone. The first Operating System for Global Trade, a strategic operating model that combines technology and analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.

FCL Shipping

Personalized Help on All Shipping Options: Flexport offers access to hundreds of FCL sailings that work with the dynamics of your supply chain. With services that span between 10 to 50 days, the firm has teams at origin and destination that can help you optimize each shipment for cost, route, or transit time.

Ship with Trusted Carriers and Unmatched Visibility: Flexport has direct contracts across all major alliances, ensuring your cargo sails on the schedules you need with carriers you can trust. And with Flexport’s network of GPS-tracked vessels and third-party data, you get greater end-to-end visibility.

Flexport FCL Premium Service Offerings: Flexport offers a Premium Guaranteed service on most sailings out of Asia. This ensures its customers’ most urgent cargo arrives at destination on time, even when allocation is exceeded.

OceanMatch helps you save cost with increased speed

Maximize Utilization and Savings: Powered by Flexport’s global network of structured supply chain data on its Operating System for Global Trade, OceanMatch is a first-of-its-kind ocean freight offering that finds the perfect cargo match to maximize container utilization — saving you money, while also giving you more choice on every ocean shipment.

“Only Flexport brings it all together to deliver a more modern, dramatically better freight forwarding experience that enables businesses of all kinds to import and export globally.”

How It Works

When you provide your shipment data at the time of quoting, Flexport calculates your container utilization and how much weight and volume is remaining in the container. Flexport then intelligently matches cargo from its active database of shipments to your cargo’s specific weight and volume, lane, and cargo-ready date.

The OceanMatch Difference

In total, Flexport matches your shipment with cargo from 1–3 additional Flexport clients. It then offers you an ocean freight rate that’s optimized for your shipment’s size, rather than a rate for the full container. Available on both LCL and FCL shipments between 15–50 cubic meters in size on qualified lanes, OceanMatch gives you the ability to optimize your cargo’s price, while not compromising on speed.

How Gerber Gains End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility and Savings with Flexport

While demand for Gerber’s plumbing fixtures ebbs and flows, the need to give customers, truckers, and warehouse staff visibility into upcoming deliveries never stops. Before working with Flexport, Gerber had no easy way to do that. But now, through Flexport’s shipping data and analytics platform, Gerber can better connect all the parties in its supply chain for greater visibility and lower costs.

Bombas speeds up booking by 30% to keep in step with demand and doing good

With Flexport's digital platform providing visibility into shipment status and consultative team advising on operational strategy, Bombas saves time and money as they scale their business - and advance on their goal of 10 million socks donated to those in need.

American Metalcraft Serves up Digital Transformation With Flexport

American Metalcraft sought a digital upgrade to the freight forwarding portion of their supply chain. In Flexport they found a technology-based solution, giving their buying and finance teams more visibility and control over shipments in their supply chain and enabling them to make smarter and quicker decisions.

Ryan Petersen, Founder & CEO

Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

“Through Flexport.org, we offer programs for our clients, NGOs, and donor organizations, including carbon offsets, discounted shipping, and pro bono supply chain counseling, to move their sustainability and aid missions forward.”