A forwarder receives a shipment order from Hamburg to Singapore: instead of manually comparing quotes for hours, a routing engine calculates within seconds whether direct ocean freight, a rail-and-sea combination, or a partial airfreight solution best fits the current cost, time, and capacity constraints.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_management_system
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