InstaFreight offers fast China-Europe overland transports.
Berlin, April 06, 2020 - As of now, InstaFreight offers their customers stable overload transport for the supply chains from China to Europe and conversely, which both have been strongly affected by the Coronavirus. With this newly added service, InstaFreight upholds the supply chain and ensures that important commodities quickly make their way to Europe. InstaFreight is this expanding its service portfolio for the period of crisis and is supplementing the succinct air and rail transports on this relation with trucks.
InstaFreight acts as a freight forwarder and operates a partner network of over 12,000
transport companies in the Eurasian region via its digital platform solution, some of
which are also active on the Silk Road. The duration of transports amounts to 20-22 days,
depending on the pickup and unloading location. With a surcharge, double driver-lineups
can also be booked, which can once more shorten the duration by several days. The
multilingual team of InstaFreight is already working in multi-shift operation in order
to carry out the transports safely despite the current difficult situation. This includes
for example vehicle changes at the Chinese borders, which are required given the present
entry and exit regulations.
“As freight forwarder it is our role in such times to be pragmatic and to find solutions
to problems such as the current stagnant flow of goods from China to Europe. Our digital
product as well as the agile structures help us realize such solutions with an adequate
promptness. For systemically relevant goods, every day counts.” says Philipp Ortwein,
founder and managing director of InstaFreight GmbH.
Maximilian Schaefer, also founder and managing director, adds: “With the expansion of
our service offering we stabilize the supply chain in a phase of resumed Chinese
industrial production and offer a very reasonable alternative to the at the moment very
cost-intensive air and rail transports. Due to the backlog of airfreight shipments destined
for Europe at the Chinese airports, on average we have almost the same overall runtime on
the road as in the air.”
New and existing customers can send their transport request to the Berlin-based road
freight forwarding company directly via email ([email protected]). The InstaFreight team
will reply promptly with a transport offer which will then also be bookable via the digital
platform. Depending on the desired Chinese location, the transport goes directly through Russia
or also Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The prices for door-to-door delivery are calculated individually,
but only amount to a fraction of the current air freight rates.
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InstaFreight is a leading digital forwarding company for road freight in Europe. Founded in 2016, the company employs more than 100 people across Europe and carries out several thousand transports per week. InstaFreight combines the transport capacity of more than 12,000 carriers in one digital platform and gives shippers access to this capacity. Through digital innovations, the Berlin-based start-up creates transparency and efficiency within the transport process.
InstaFreight offers shippers an end-to-end digital solution for their transport needs. This ranges from quoting, booking and track & trace including automatic notifications to digital document management. Shippers thus benefit from efficient processes that save time and money as well as a transparent supply chain. With InstaFreight, carriers can meet the digital needs of shippers, optimize their capacity utilization, and are paid faster with more attractive rates.