Primary Freight Expands Airfreight Capabilities Using the Freightgate Universe Rate Management Solution

Huntington Beach, California (PRWEB) April 30, 2014

Freightgate, a global provider of Logistics Cloud Solutions, announced today that Primary Freight, one of the largest privately owned providers of global logistics and transportation services, has successfully deployed the Freightgate Universe rate management solution to sharpen its airfreight capabilities providing customers with the best freight shipping service-price options available into today's competitive marketplace. Primary Freight streamlines the complexity and constant gyration of airfreight pricing, surcharges, handling fees, cargo insurance premiums, and local cartage rates which create havoc in a company's supply chain equilibrium and product pricing.

"The Freightgate Rate Management solution provides us with superior access to our broad scope of airfreight contract data, effectively enhancing the airfreight services we deliver to our customers," said Rebecca Smith CIO for Primary Freight."Freightgate Rate Management solution allows us to manage the complexity of airfreight contracts to provide rapid and accurate door-to-door rate quotes and proposals for our customers. Freightgate's superior customer service and its best-in-class solutions exceed competitive offerings when it comes to efficiency, customizability, and depth of industry knowledge."

Freightgate Rate Management is the answer to the long-standing problem of carrier service contract management, distribution, and organization. By replacing countless emails and rate sheets of inconsistent and difficult to understand rates with an interactive, searchable, and user-friendly web-enabled solution, our staff gains a whole new level of productivity. Aside from the ability to run instant rate queries by virtually limitless combinations, Freightgate Rate Management offers convenient data uploading, quotation generation and distribution, surcharge application, mode comparison, and unique FAK/Cargo NOS commodity exception handling.

Martin Hubert, Freightgate's President and CEO, stated, "We are very pleased that Primary Freight has selected our Freighgate Universe solution for Airfreight Rate Management. It is a confirmation of our commitment to service and our vision of the logistics industry. We believe that our tools are catalyst in making our customers more efficient and help them in their quest to increase profitability and growth."

Freightgate's Logistics Cloud Platform, known as the Freightgate Universe, enables solutions empowering professionals on all levels to collaborate with global vendors and logistics providers seamlessly on a single common transportation sourcing platform for informed decision-making across the entire network. It encompasses ISO9001:2008-certified end-to-end transportation management processes from procurement, rate management, optimization, execution and visibility, carbon footprint, through invoice audit & pay. The Freightgate Universe is comprised of adaptive easy-to-deploy modules to help companies leapfrog into the 21st century with minimal start-up cost. Freightgate is the only commercial EFM compliant platform enabling standardized web-services as promoted by the US-DOT and Transport-Canada.

For more information on Freightgate Rate Management, to schedule a no-obligation demonstration of Freightgate Logistics Cloud Solutions, please complete the form at http://www.freightgate.com/demo or call Freightgate Sales at (714) 799-2833.

For more information on Primary Freight Services, please go to http://www.primaryfreight.com.

About Primary Freight Services
Primary Freight Services, based in Buena Park, California specializes in LCL and FCL ocean and air freight services to and from the USA. With over 16 years of experience, the company delivers its services as part of a network that spans over 100 countries. Primary Freight supplements its international freight services with extended domestic, intermodal, warehousing, purchase order tracking and on-forwarding services. The company deploys leading edge customer-specific technology to provide deep visibility to shipments for its customers and agency network, utilizing extensive collaboration with its overseas partners to ensure that the information provided is accurate and continuously up-to-date. In addition to the Buena Park facility in California, the company has branch offices in Chicago and New York. Primary Freight Services has recently invested in the expansion of its warehousing facilities in California and logistics offerings nationwide. The company is the recipient of numerous awards for its operational excellence. Further information is available at http://www.primaryfreight.com.

About Freightgate
Based in Huntington Beach, California, the Freightgate team has been developing Internet solutions for the freight and logistics since 1994, such as its industry-leading Logistics Cloud Platform, offering Supply Chain Collaboration & Visibility; TMS, Global Tender Bid Management; Least Cost Routing, Service Contract and Quote Management; Regulatory Compliance CBP and FMC; Automated eInvoice Audit and Payment; innovative What-If-Scenario Analysis tool; interactive online Sailing Schedule; BFN (Built for NetSuite) approved SuiteApps. Freightgate is ISO 9001:2008 certified. Visit Freightgate at http://www.freightgate.com.

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