How much is your freight tender costing you?
Phantom surcharges. Dirty data. Weeks of cleanup.
Tenderlane structures your freight tender so you get clean, comparable quotes from day one.
Your spreadsheet is hiding six figures in waste
Hidden costs baked into your template
A French importer hard-coded Le Havre for cargo going to Strasbourg. Routing via Antwerp + rail: $275 saved per container across 200 containers.
$0
lost to one routing assumption
The number you trusted was wrong
“Total Origin Charges” bundled three cost types into one column. The unit was never defined.
$0 → $0
quoted vs. invoiced per shipment
The rate that looked good in February
Fixed annual BAF rate locked in winter. Fuel dropped 40% by summer. They kept paying the winter price.
€0
from a single line item
Here’s how Tenderlane fixes this
Each solution maps directly to one of the problems above.
Rate cards that match your actual routes
Pricing grids based on actual trade lane, transport mode & incoterm. Irrelevant surcharges excluded. Forwarders propose optimal routing — you define the destination, not the port.
| Lane Information | Origin Pre-Carriage | Origin Charges | Main Freight | Dest. Charges | Dest. On-Carriage | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origin | Destination | Container | Incoterm | Pick-up | Inland Haul. | THC | Docs | Ocean Frt | BAF | THC | Customs | Delivery | Inland Haul. |
| Shanghai | Strasbourg | 40'HC | EXW | $185 | $240 | $320 | $95 | $1,850 | $420 | $295 | $110 | $380 | $195 |
| Shenzhen | Lyon | 40'HC | FOB | — | — | — | — | $2,100 | $385 | $310 | $125 | $415 | $210 |
| Ningbo | Hamburg | 20'GP | CIF | — | — | — | — | — | — | $280 | $95 | $350 | $180 |
| Qingdao | Rotterdam | 40'HC | EXW | $170 | $255 | $310 | $85 | $1,780 | $395 | $285 | $100 | $365 | $185 |
| Yantian | Paris | 20'GP | FOB | — | — | — | — | $1,680 | $340 | $265 | $90 | $360 | $175 |
| Xiamen | Antwerp | 40'HC | CIF | — | — | — | — | — | — | $290 | $100 | $370 | $190 |
| Busan | Marseille | 40'HC | EXW | $210 | $280 | $340 | $110 | $2,050 | $410 | $305 | $120 | $400 | $215 |
| Shanghai | Munich | 20'GP | FOB | — | — | — | — | $1,750 | $360 | $275 | $95 | $380 | $190 |
| Kaohsiung | Barcelona | 40'HC | CIF | — | — | — | — | — | — | $285 | $105 | $355 | $195 |
| Ho Chi Minh | Milan | 40'HC | EXW | $175 | $310 | $295 | $85 | $1,980 | $435 | $320 | $115 | $410 | $205 |
Structured quotes, comparable from day one
Every field enforces a specific data type — currency, integer, per-container, per-shipment. No free text where a number should be. Quotes are comparable the moment they arrive.
Base freight stays fixed, surcharges follow the market
Base rates lock in for stability. Volatile costs (BAF, PSS, peak season) adjust with the market — no worst-case premium locked in for 12 months.
Tenderlane is for you if…
You run freight tenders in Excel and copy last year’s template to get started
You manage multiple forwarders and spend days normalizing their responses
You’ve been burned by invoices that don’t match what was quoted
You don’t have a dedicated procurement team — it’s one of fifty things on your plate
Built by people who’ve lived the problem
Clément spent years managing freight tenders and watching shippers lose money on broken spreadsheets. Ryan builds the software to fix it. Every feature comes from real tender experience — not guesswork.
15 minutes. No commitment.
We’ll look at how you run tenders today and show you where the gaps are — no pitch deck, no pressure.
hello@tenderlane.com