Carotrans joins the Freightgate Rate Network

Huntington Beach, CA, United States, March 10, 2010 - Freightgate announced today that Carotrans International, a leading neutral NVOCC, has joined the Freightgate Rate Network, thereby extending its reach to the Freightgate user community. The Tariff-Trek!Platform as part of Freightgate's Service Oriented Architecture enables carriers and global shippers alike to manage their numerous transportation choices, routing alternatives and lead time implications for all modes of Transportation. The Freightgate Rate Network extends this capability far beyond the traditional customer extranet access. Leveraging leading edge SOA technology on top of an enhanced enterprise service bus allows for seamless rate synchronization based on a publish / subscribe paradigm.

"Carotrans has been a longtime customer and partner for us and we are delighted that they share our vision of a global synchronized network that takes the shipping community to the next level," said Martin Hubert, Freightgate's President. "We look forward to jointly enable many NVOCCs to streamline their rate management process by leveraging our platform. Our loosely coupled approach of collaborating systems in our service cloud is leading the way to new offerings and efficiencies that will take this industry to the next level."

The Rate Network extension to Tariff-Trek! will enable Carotrans to synchronize its import and export rates from any worldwide location, with any subscriber, without manual intervention. " This makes collaborating with our global customers on this important aspect of a buying decision more efficient for all parties. Our customers no longer need any manual data entry and all our rates are available at the click of a button. While some of our competitors offer access to their in-house rate system, we feel very strongly that the combination with the neutral Freightgate platform offers many advantages, our customers' capability to generate quotes instantly, " said Greg Howard, CEO of Carotrans.