The Cargoson Blog

North Carolina Organics Recycling, a food waste recycler with six loading bays, replaced its costly and complex dock scheduling system with LoadingCalendar. As customers now enter BOL, PO and release numbers when booking, founder Fred Mussari estimates that cross-checking time has been cut in half.

The limitations of Cargoson: A reflection on where we don’t fit

A closer look at where Cargoson falls short: buyers, features, and setups it isn’t built for. Read this to decide early whether Cargoson is the right TMS for you.

How much does transport management software (TMS) cost?

Rasmus Leichter

Prices and costs of a transportation management system. Real numbers shown. What drives costs up, what drives costs down? 22 TMS and parcel shipping software providers' pricing analyzed. TMS ROI calculated for different scenarios.

Spot rates vs contact rates in logistics: when to use each

Spot rates vs contract rates: Find out which is best for what, when to use each one, and why using both together when booking is better than choosing one or the other.

Custom package types

Tanel Vaarmann

Cargoson now lets Superusers create custom package types with preset weight, dimensions, volume and loading meters. They show up in the goods type list for everyone in the account and work through the API, while carriers keep receiving the underlying standard package type.

How Volburg cut its shipping admin in half by putting three carriers in one window

Volburg, a Latvian automotive and industrial electronics manufacturer, used Cargoson to bring three separate carrier portals into one. The result was a 50% reduction in daily shipping admin and real-time shipment visibility across the whole team.

UPS vs FedEx: Which carrier is best for manufacturers?

UPS and FedEx are so similar that base rates rarely determine which is better. The deciding factors are your negotiated contract, shipment profile, and lane strength. The smart move is to use both and compare them on a per-shipment basis.

Coop: "I'm sure there are still hidden wins we haven't found yet."

Marju Sokman

Coop Estonia used to coordinate freight for 320 stores via email, phone and two Excel files. Moving to Cargoson gave purchasing, accounting, and logistics one shared view, cut the back-and-forth on carrier quotes, and fixed a cost-of-goods gap the team hadn't considered.

DHL vs UPS: Which carrier is best for manufacturers?

When it comes to shipping mixed freight, DHL dominates the intra-European parcel and road freight markets, while UPS leads the US-bound and transatlantic markets. The best choice varies depending on the destination. For manufacturers shipping to both regions, it makes sense to use both services and match each shipment to its destination.

DPD vs DHL: Which carrier is best for manufacturers?

DPD and DHL are closely matched on standard European parcels and pallets. For manufacturers shipping a mix of both, the smart move is running the two together and comparing them per shipment rather than committing to one.

TMS-ERP integration: How to connect transport to the system that runs your business

Your ERP knows the order and your carriers move the goods, but the two don't communicate directly, so most teams bridge the gap manually. Find out how TMS-ERP system integration can help, and what to ask any vendor before you commit.

How HansaMatrix stopped chasing five carriers by email for every shipment

Latvian electronics manufacturer, HansaMatrix, used to chase five carriers by email for every shipment quote. With Cargoson, this process now takes a few clicks, reducing daily booking time from two hours to thirty minutes and giving its logistics team room to focus on higher-value work.

How to ship chemicals in Europe: A guide for chemical manufacturing

Shipping chemicals in Europe means getting three things right: classification, documentation, and carrier selection. This guide gives practical advice on ADR compliance, avoiding border holds, and keeping chemical manufacturing freight costs under control.

How Rebel ships parcels and pallets across Poland without logistics ever opening a carrier portal

Rebel chose Cargoson over the market leader because of the quality of support. Thousands of shipments later, this decision has paid off, with shipping now requiring minimal attention.

How OMHU built logistics that scale across 25 markets

Marju Sokman

OMHU, a Copenhagen-based furniture brand producing in Poland, replaced a fragile Excel-based logistics setup with Cargoson's TMS to manage multiple carriers across 25+ markets. The platform now gives logistics, customer service, and production teams a shared view of every shipment, from labelling to tracking.

How electronics manufacturers can protect goods, insure shipments and handle failed deliveries

How electronics manufacturers can prevent freight damage, get the right insurance coverage, and handle failed deliveries when they happen.

Ocean visibility

Tanel Vaarmann

Ocean visibility is a Cargoson TMS add-on that tracks any sea container by container number - showing live location, completed and upcoming milestones.

How to Write a TMS RFP: Our Experience [+ 5 Free Templates]

Ülari Kalamees

A TMS RFP works when every vendor gets the same operational context (volumes, sites, carriers, systems) and answers the same prioritized requirements the same way. Most RFPs skip the context, so the proposals come back generic and you can't compare them. Fix that one thing and you save yourself a clarification round, get honest pricing, and reach a defensible decision in 8 to 12 weeks. But first, make sure you need one at all. If your setup is simple, a couple of demos get you a better deal, faster, without the months of process.

ERP vs TMS: Does your ERP's shipping module meet your needs, or do you need a dedicated TMS?

Many manufacturers and wholesalers rely on their ERP system to manage shipping, unaware of the time, money, and visibility they are losing as their logistics operations grow. This article explains where ERP shipping modules fall short, what a dedicated TMS adds, and how to know when your business is ready to make the switch.

How Stokker manages 15,000 shipments a month with two people

Rather than rebuilding individual carrier integrations in their new ERP, Stokker connected to all their transport partners through one TMS: cutting setup time from weeks to minutes and enabling a two-person team to manage 15,000 monthly shipments.