Freight tender pricing, lane by lane, from your own rates

A shipper's tender is a spreadsheet of lanes, and filling it in by hand takes a pricing team days. Laneworks reads the workbook, prices every lane from your own rates by fixed rules, and sends the same workbook back with the price columns filled in, usually the same afternoon. Lanes your rates don't cover are marked, with the rate request to your agents already written.

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See it on a sample tender

Below is a 28-lane ocean tender of the kind a shipper sends, and the same workbook after Laneworks priced it from a demonstration rate sheet: 24 lanes priced, 4 marked "Rate needed" with the reason.

Lane	From	To	Equip.	Per year	Freight	Destination	Total	Laneworks notes
1	Guangzhou	Adelaide	20GP	24	1,850	780	AUD 2,630	FCL row 22 (20GP)
2	Guangzhou	Brisbane	40GP	120	2,900	780	AUD 3,680	FCL row 20 (40GP)
3	Guangzhou	Fremantle	40HC	12	2,900	780	AUD 3,680	FCL row 21 (40HC)
25	Haiphong	Melbourne	40GP	36				Rate needed: no FCL rate from Haiphong to Melbourne in the rate sheet
26	Chittagong	Sydney	40GP	90				Rate needed: no FCL rate from Chittagong to Sydney in the rate sheet

Five of the 28 rows, from the sample below (demonstration rates, FOB terms, so no origin charges).

Download the priced tender (.xlsx) The tender as the shipper sent it

Tender Desk: we price it for you

You don't need to adopt any software to use this. Email the tender and the rates you'd price it from to rehan@getlaneworks.com. Our team loads your rates, prices every lane, checks the result and sends the workbook back within one working day.

First tender: free. See the result on your own lanes before you pay anything.
After that: A$950 per tender (up to 300 lanes, plus GST), paid only when you send one. Larger tenders are quoted on request.
Your rates stay loaded, so the next tender is faster, and any lane we can't price is marked, never estimated.

A 100-lane tender filled in by hand can take a pricing team a day or more. The Tender Desk hands that time back, on every tender.

What comes back

The shipper's own workbook: their columns, rows and layout untouched, with freight, origin charges, destination charges, total, currency and validity added to every lane.
The source of every price: each row names the rate-sheet row it came from, so your pricing team can check any lane in seconds.
Lanes your rates don't cover: marked "Rate needed" with the reason, never estimated.
The agent rate request: one email listing the missing lanes with volumes and exactly what to send back.
A summary: lanes priced, lanes waiting on a rate, and the annual value of the priced lanes at the shipper's stated volumes.

Nothing is guessed

Lanes are matched to your rates by fixed rules: port, container size, validity on the shipment date. No AI sets a price. Your markup is applied the way it is written in your rate sheet, per lane, customer or mode. How a Laneworks price is set

For larger forwarders

Tender pricing is part of Laneworks Enterprise, alongside day-to-day quote replies for every branch, custom quote rate requests to your agents written for you, and a free margin check of last month's quotes. Laneworks Enterprise

Questions

How long does a tender take?

Usually the same afternoon for a few hundred lanes, once your rates are loaded. The lanes your rates don't cover wait only on your agents' replies.

What format does the tender need to be in?

The shipper's own Excel workbook, as received. Laneworks finds the header row and the origin, destination, equipment and volume columns; a sheet it can't read is reported, not guessed at.

Can we try it on one of ours?

Yes. Email a recent tender and the rates you'd price it from to rehan@getlaneworks.com. The first one comes back priced within one working day, free.

How is it charged after the first?

A$950 per tender up to 300 lanes, plus GST, by card or invoice. No subscription and no minimum: you pay only for tenders you send.

Does it work with CargoWise?

It works alongside it by email. Rates exported from CargoWise or kept in Excel are loaded as they are.

Try it on one of today's requests

Forward a real quote request to try@getlaneworks.com. The priced draft comes back in about two minutes.

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