B2B freight brokerage
Know the freight rate before you commit the cargo.
LinkCargo moves containers, pallets and air consignments for companies that are tired of waiting three days for a number. Search the lane you actually move: where we publish a rate it is on screen now, all-in and in your currency — and where we do not, a broker goes out to carriers and comes back with a real one.
What does your route cost?
Search any origin and destination. Where we publish rates you see them now; where we do not, a broker prices it by hand.
Prices shown here are indicative and are not a binding offer. Firm, bookable rates — with the validity window you can hold us to — are issued inside an account. Every corridor we already price is listed in the published corridor index.
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Services quoted
Ocean · Air · Ground · Rail
Rate visibility
Published, with validity dates
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A broker sources it
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A brokerage that shows you the price.
Most freight still moves on quote requests that come back a day later, if at all. LinkCargo puts the rate sheet in front of you: search the lane, see what it costs, book it, then watch it move. When we do not have a live rate, we say so and go get one — we do not stall you with a form.
Price
Search a lane and see the number. Rates we hold are published with a validity date, so you are not waiting on an email to find out whether a route is affordable.
Book
Accept a rate and it becomes a booking with a reference, a pickup window and a document checklist. No re-keying the shipment into a second system.
Move
Milestones, documents and invoices sit against the shipment — gate-in, departure, arrival, customs release, delivery — visible to everyone on your account.
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Nine services, one account.
The mode is a commercial decision, not a preference. Ocean buys you cost, air buys you time, ground and intermodal decide what the first and last mile do to both. We quote across all of them so the comparison is like for like.
Ocean FCL
Full container, 20ft to 40ft high-cube and reefer, port to port or door to door. Priced per container on the corridor, with terminal handling and origin charges stated up front.
Ocean LCL
Consolidated cargo priced on the weight-or-measure rule, whichever is greater. The right call under roughly 15 cubic metres, once you account for CFS handling at both ends.
Air Freight
Consolidated and direct uplift on chargeable weight — the greater of actual weight and volume divided by the dimensional factor. Days, not weeks, when the inventory position demands it.
Air Charter
Dedicated aircraft for oversize, project cargo, AOG parts or a production line that stops tomorrow. Quoted case by case against aircraft availability.
Ground TL
Exclusive-use truckload, dry van, reefer or flatbed. One consignment, one trailer, no cross-dock handling and no reconsignment risk.
Ground LTL
Less-than-truckload on freight class and density. Cheaper per pallet than a dedicated trailer, at the cost of terminal handling and a wider delivery window.
Drayage
Port and rail-ramp moves — the leg where demurrage and per diem accrue. We track last free day and pull containers before the clock starts against you.
Rail & Intermodal
Container on flatcar for long domestic hauls. Slower than over-the-road, materially cheaper past roughly 700 miles, and less exposed to driver capacity.
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How a lane gets a price.
No black box, and no auction theatre. Four steps sit between a corridor and the number you see on screen.
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The lane is defined
Origin, destination and service. A lane is a real corridor we move freight on — not a distance calculation. Shanghai to Los Angeles by ocean FCL and by air freight are two different lanes with two different economics.
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Carriers price it
We hold rates with steamship lines, airlines, asset carriers and trucking partners, and refresh them as contracts and the spot market move. Which carrier sits behind a lane is our problem, not yours.
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The rate is published
The buy side becomes a single all-in sell rate on the sheet, with a currency and a validity date. One number, quoted in the currency you are invoiced in, so there is nothing to reconcile afterwards.
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You book against it
Accept a live rate and it converts to a booking. If a lane has no current rate, the request goes to a broker who goes out to carriers and comes back with a real price rather than a guess.
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Transit is half the decision.
Freight cost is only meaningful next to the days it buys. These are the ranges the major corridors actually run at, port to port, before drayage and customs at either end.
| Corridor | Service | Typical transit |
|---|---|---|
| East Asia → US West Coast | Ocean FCL | 14–21 days |
| East Asia → US East Coast | Ocean FCL | 28–38 days |
| North Europe → US East Coast | Ocean FCL | 12–18 days |
| East Asia → Europe | Air Freight | 3–6 days |
| Transatlantic | Air Freight | 2–4 days |
| US transcontinental | Ground TL | 4–6 days |
| US regional | Ground LTL | 2–5 days |
| Port to inland ramp | Drayage | Same day–2 days |
Indicative ranges for planning only. Actual transit depends on the carrier, the sailing or flight taken, transshipment, blank sailings, peak season and congestion at either end. Your quote states the routing it is priced on.
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Customs is where shipments actually stop.
Cargo rarely sits because a ship was late. It sits because a commercial invoice disagrees with a packing list, an HS code is wrong, or the Incoterm made someone else responsible for the entry and nobody told them.
Documents against the shipment
Commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading or air waybill, certificate of origin and any permits attach to the shipment record itself. Everyone on your account works from the same file, and the broker preparing the entry is reading exactly what you uploaded — not a forwarded attachment three replies deep.
Classification and Incoterms up front
We capture the HS code and the Incoterm at booking, because they decide who pays the freight, who carries the risk at each leg, and what duty is assessed on arrival. Getting them right on day one is cheaper than amending an entry, and far cheaper than storage while it is amended.
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Start with one lane.
Price the corridor you move most and see whether the number is competitive. It costs nothing, takes a minute, and you will know more about your freight spend than a quarterly RFP will tell you.
Rather read first? Every corridor we publish has its own page, with the price, the transit and what moves on it — browse published corridors.