Freight quotes & pre-shipment inspection
The counterparties around the shipment.
A shipment is rarely one exporter and one buyer. Freight forwarders quote against a request, an inspector checks the goods before they load, a second supplier fills part of a consolidated container, and a carrier's own milestones move the shipment along — Marketplace is where Expodite manages all of them against the same order.
Expodite Marketplace is where Egyptian exporters manage the counterparties around a shipment: freight forwarders' quotes compared line by line and posted to the order's costs on selection, pre-shipment inspection scheduling, multi-supplier and consolidation-warehouse fulfilment, automatic sanctions screening, and the carrier milestones that update a shipment's status as it moves.
Freight quotes & pre-shipment inspection
The order is one exporter and one buyer; the shipment rarely is.
A freight quote is compared in an email thread, an inspection date is confirmed by phone, a second supplier's goods arrive at a warehouse with no linked order, and nobody can tell from the order whether a new counterparty was screened against the sanctions lists.
What it does
Every counterparty, on the order.
01
Freight requests for quote
A request for quote goes to the forwarders on file, their quotes are compared line by line by cost category, and the winning quote posts straight to the order's cost ledger.
02
Pre-shipment inspection
PSI is scheduled and tracked against the order, so an inspection date sits next to the shipment it clears.
03
Suppliers and consolidation
A supplier purchase order and a consolidation-warehouse goods receipt let a shipment draw on more than one supplier, with stock held and reserved before it's packed into one order.
04
Sanctions screening
Buyers, consignees, notify parties, suppliers and forwarders are screened automatically against the OFAC, EU, UN and UK sanctions lists, which are refreshed daily. Screening runs when a party is added or its name or country changes, when an LC's banks are recorded and when a vessel is booked, and again whenever a list changes. A party with no match is cleared and the result kept as evidence; a possible match creates a review task, and a person records the decision.
05
Carrier milestones
Carrier events, normalised through a shared webhook path, update a shipment's milestones — the same ones a buyer sees on their tracking link.
What changes
One order, every counterparty accounted for.
A freight decision with a paper trail
The compared quotes, and the reason a winner was selected, are on the order, not in someone's inbox.
A screening record that exists
Each screening result is kept as evidence, with the list versions used, and a possible match's review is recorded with its decision, so “did we check” has an answer.
Multi-supplier shipments that reconcile
Stock received into a consolidation warehouse from more than one supplier reserves and commits against the order it was bought for.
Questions
Marketplace, answered plainly
- Can a freight forwarder submit a quote without an Expodite account?
- Not today — a forwarder's quotes are entered by the exporter's own team against the request. A forwarder-facing submission link is on the roadmap, not shipped.
- Is sanctions screening automated?
- Yes. Buyers, consignees, notify parties, suppliers and forwarders are screened automatically against the OFAC, EU, UN and UK sanctions lists, which are refreshed daily, and again whenever a list changes. A party with no match is cleared automatically; a possible match creates a review task and notifies the people responsible, and a person records the decision.
- What is a consolidation warehouse?
- A holding point where goods from one or more suppliers are received against purchase orders and held until they're packed into a specific export order.
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