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Plane and Containers

FOR Freight Forwarders

The commercial and operational infrastructure to grow without losing control.

Every tool designed to reduce administrative drag, protect margins and keep the business running the way it should — efficiently, accurately and at scale.

RFQ MANAGEMENT

QUOTING

BOOKING MANAGEMENT

CONSOL MANAGEMENT

RATE MANAGEMENT

CUSTOMER PORTAL

AI-ASSISTED INTAKE

01. RFQ Management

Stop losing time & revenue to unstructured RFQ processes.

The majority of RFQ effort in freight forwarding produces no revenue. Requests arrive across email, WhatsApp and phone calls, get manually logged, and are often lost, duplicated or responded to too late. Terminal2 centralises every inbound RFQ in one place — so nothing falls through the cracks and every opportunity is visible, trackable and actionable.

One place for every RFQ — from receipt to response.

Receive, manage and respond to RFQs from a single dashboard. Every request is logged, timestamped and traceable. Response workflows are streamlined so your team spends less time administering and more time converting.

Centralized

Single dashboard for all requests

Traceable

Every request logged & attended 

Efficient

Less admin, more converting

KEY BENEFIT

RFQ PIPELINE

0

Lost requests

Request received & logged automatically

Timestamped and assigned

Status visible across the team

Response triggered in-platform

Every action traceable

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Place for everything

02. Quoting

Quote faster, win more and protect your margins.

QUOTE CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING

ORIGINATES FROM

Inbound RFQs centralized from the platform, email or customer portal.

PULLS FROM

Pre configured rates, terms and internal tariff contracts.

BECOMES

A confirmed digital booking with full operational mapping.

Automated invoicing, accounting, and the customer portal.

CONNECTS TO

The majority of RFQ effort in freight forwarding produces no revenue. Requests arrive across email, WhatsApp and phone calls, get manually logged, and are often lost, duplicated or responded to too late. Terminal2 centralises every inbound RFQ in one place — so nothing falls through the cracks and every opportunity is visible, trackable and actionable.

KEY BENEFIT

Quotes built in context — connected to your rates, consols and charges.

Build and send quotes directly within the platform, connected to your rate management and live consol data. Every quote exists in the context of the RFQ it belongs to, the booking it will become and the charges it will generate. No more isolated spreadsheets. No more version control problems. No more margin miscalculations.

Connected

Linked to live rates & consol data

Contextual

Every quote tied to RFQ, booking & charges

Accurate

No spreadsheets, no margin for errors

03. BOOKING Management

Manage bookings the way the industry actually works - with the flexibility to handle changes after the booking is made.

In freight forwarding, a booking is rarely static. Services get added. Details change. Parties need to communicate. Most platforms treat a booking as a fixed record. Terminal2 treats it as a living transaction, because that is what it is.

KEY BENEFIT

Bookings managed in one place, with every change authorised and every action on record.

Confirm, manage and update bookings as needed. Either party can request changes or add services post-booking, with a built-in approval workflow that ensures every change is authorised, every action is traceable and every document - uploaded, edited or deleted - is accounted for. All communication sits within the booking record itself. No more hunting through email chains to find out who changed what and when.

Controlled

Built-in approval for every change requested

Traceable

Every document & action accounted for

Contextual

All comms inside the booking record

BOOKING Control

Request received & logged automatically

Timestamped and assigned

Status visible across the team

Response triggered in-platform

Every action traceable

CONSOL ADVANTAGE

PROFITABLE EVEN AT LOW VOLUMES

No specialist needed

Consolidation logic built into the engine

Cargo, space and cost visibility in one view

Full consol visibility & clear data presentation for easy decisions

Savings passed directly to customers or retained for profit

04. CONSOL MAMAGEMENT

Profitable consols, even without large volumes or specialist teams.

Consolidation is one of the most effective ways a freight forwarder can reduce costs and quote more competitively. But profitably managing consols without high cargo volume requires a level of experience and commercial judgement that not every team has. The result is that many forwarders either avoid consolidation altogether or get it wrong — leaving money on the table or eroding margins in the process.

KEY BENEFIT

Consolidation expertise built in — no specialist required.

Terminal2's consolidation engine has the logic built in. The expertise, the calculations, the visibility across cargo, space and cost — it is all embedded in the platform, presented clearly so your team can make informed consolidation decisions confidently and quickly. No specialist required. No guesswork. Forwarders retain full control, pass cost savings on to customers and quote more competitively as a result.

Intelligent

Logic & calculations built into the platform

Confident

Full visibility across cargo, space & cost

Competitive

Pass savings on & quote more competitively

05. RATE Management

Deliberate pricing beats panic discounting. Every time.

Margin stacking is a common pricing strategy in freight forwarding and, up to a point, it works. But it is not a competitive long term approach. When rates are built on layers of disconnected assumptions, forwarders often find themselves discounting under pressure, reacting to the market rather than leading it. The problem is rarely intentional but it is the absence of a centralized, connected pricing framework that makes deliberate pricing possible.

KEY BENEFIT

Your rates — centralized, automated and accurate.

Terminal2 gives freight forwarders a single, clean repository where rates are stored, organised and applied consistently across the business.

Terminal2's auto-rates apply the right price automatically - no manual lookup, no errors, no delay.

We don't move the chaos online. We replace it with a framework that makes your rates competitive, accurate and defensible.

Centralized

One clean repository for all rates

Effortless

No surprises, just consistent accuracy

Defensible

Competitive, accurate & consistent

RATE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Centralised rate repository

Add, edit and archive rates easily

Connected to quoting and consol workflows

Pre-configured, auto-rates for different criteria

Right rate applied automatically

Rules-based pricing — set once, edit anytime, runs every time

CONSOL ADVANTAGE

PROFITABLE EVEN AT LOW VOLUMES

No specialist needed

Fully branded to your business

Customers access quotes, bookings, shipment status

Fewer calls and emails for your team

Relationship strengthened, not replaced

06. Customer Portal

A fully branded self-service portal — ready to go

The relationship between a freight forwarder and their customer is built on trust, communication and reliability. A professional, branded customer portal reinforces all three — while reducing the volume of calls, emails and status requests your team has to handle.

KEY BENEFIT

A branded customer experience, without the build.

Terminal2's white label customer portal allows freight forwarders to offer their customers a fully branded self-service experience. Configure it to reflect your business, your branding and your service offering. Your customers access it as your platform — powered by Terminal2 behind the scenes.

Branded

Fully configured to your identity

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Self-service

Customers access it as your platform

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Ready-made

Professional experience, zero development

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07. AI-ASSISTED INTAKE 

AI-assisted intake. Less manual work, from the very first message.

RFQs arrive in every format imaginable. A detailed email. A forwarded message. A rough note with the basics. In a traditional process, someone has to read it, interpret it, manually extract the relevant information and re-enter it into a system. This creates room for error, duplication and delay before the workflow has even begun. In a busy operation, this happens dozens of times a day.

KEY BENEFIT

AI manages the request. Your team does the work that matters.

Terminal2's AI-assisted intake handles incoming email requests and structures them into clean, complete platform records automatically. No manual data entry. No duplication. No re-keying.

From the moment a message arrives, a full workflow is initiated. The AI interprets. Your team applies the judgement.

One of several AI-assisted capabilities coming to Terminal2 with the goal to Remove Friction, Keep Control.

Intelligent

Emails read & structured automatically

Frictionless

No data entry, no re-keying, no duplication

Controlled

AI interprets, your team decides

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AI INTAKE FLOW

INCOMING

Raw email request — any format, any structure

AI PROCESSING

Terminal2 AI interprets and organizes data automatically

Clean, complete RFQs and quotes created — no manual data entry

STRUCTURED RECORD

WORKFLOW INITIATED

Quote, booking, charges — all connected from message one

See Terminal2 working
in your business.

Book a demo and we will walk you through every feature in the context of how your freight forwarding operation actually works. No jargon. No hard sell. Just an honest look at what Terminal2 can do for you.

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