AI Pricing & Procurement Infrastructure · Now in private beta

Get an instant rate — or make
your agents compete for it.

Susea is the pricing & quotation operating system for freight forwarders. Get instant spot rates across carriers — or run a live RFQ to your own agents. Quote customers and award tenders in one platform.

See both ways to price
Built for FCL · LCL · NVOCCSpot rates & live RFQ auctionsDesigned with 40+ forwarders
90%
Faster quotations
120+
Carriers compared
up to 60%
Lower freight cost via RFQ
1–3d
From tender to award
susea.app/pricing/quote/SQ-48217
Live rates · 120 carriers

Rate search FCL

OriginNhava ShevaINNSA
DestinationJebel AliAEJEA
Container40' HC
CargoGeneral · 22T
AI
Re-routing via Mundra → Jebel Ali saves $184 and 2 days transit. Try alternate?

Carrier comparison 5 carriers

Carrier
All-in
Transit
Validity
MA Maritime A
$1,420
7d
Best
OC Oceanic Co
$1,475 −$30
8d
Nov 30
PA Pacific Line
$1,510 +$45
9d
Dec 04
EV Eastern Ven.
$1,540
10d
Dec 02
SR Sealink Roy.
$1,612
8d
Nov 28
Updated 38s agovia 4 tariff sources

Quote draft

Auto-generated
SQ-48217 · Acme Exports Pvt Ltd
Ocean freight$1,420.00
BAF$84.00
THC origin$62.00
THC destination$78.00
Documentation$35.00
Margin (12%)+$203.40
Total all-in
USD · valid 7 days
$1,882.40
90% Faster Quotations
Avg time: 18 min → 90s
AI Tariff Extraction
PDF · XLS · Email · WhatsApp
Multi-Carrier Pricing
120+ shipping lines aggregated
Live Rate Visibility
Updated every 60s

Pricing from 200+ shipping lines, worldwide

Live rates, schedules and freight intelligence fetched from 200+ ocean carriers across the globe.

MSC
Maersk
CMA CGM
Hapag-Lloyd
COSCO
Evergreen
HMM
ZIM
Yang Ming
PIL
Wan Hai
RCL
KMTC
TS Lines
Sealead
Emirates SL
MSC
Maersk
CMA CGM
Hapag-Lloyd
COSCO
Evergreen
HMM
ZIM
Yang Ming
PIL
Wan Hai
RCL
KMTC
TS Lines
Sealead
Emirates SL
Emirates SL
Sealead
TS Lines
KMTC
RCL
Wan Hai
PIL
Yang Ming
ZIM
HMM
Evergreen
COSCO
Hapag-Lloyd
CMA CGM
Maersk
MSC
Emirates SL
Sealead
TS Lines
KMTC
RCL
Wan Hai
PIL
Yang Ming
ZIM
HMM
Evergreen
COSCO
Hapag-Lloyd
CMA CGM
Maersk
MSC
The pricing problem

Freight pricing is still run
on screenshots and spreadsheets.

Tariffs arrive over WhatsApp. Surcharges live in your inbox. Quotes get re-typed into Excel. Customers wait. Margins leak.

Before · The chaos

Pricing fragmented across 9 places

A typical FCL quote touches inboxes, chats, three Excel sheets and a printed tariff. Nothing reconciles.

After · Susea command center

One AI-powered pricing layer

All tariffs ingested, all surcharges normalized, all carriers comparable, all quotes generated — automatically.

✕Rates scattered across Excel sheets
✕Manual quotation workflows
✕WhatsApp & email tariff dependency
✕Slow customer response times
✕Complex surcharge calculations
✕Carrier pricing fragmentation
✕Multiple disconnected portals
✕Rate validity tracking issues
Susea consolidates 1 inbox + 6 tariffs + 14 carriers
…into a single live pricing surface your ops team actually trusts.
The platform

One platform for ocean freight
pricing & operations.

Susea centralizes carrier pricing, quotations, tracking, and operational intelligence into one AI-powered platform — built for how modern forwarders actually work.

SUSEA OS

The pricing & quotation stack

Replace 6 tools with one operating system. Built on a tariff intelligence engine that reads anything — PDFs, images, spreadsheets, even forwarded WhatsApp threads — and turns it into structured, comparable pricing.

Pricing engineQuote automationTariff AI Real-time
Centralized pricing dashboard
Every tariff, every carrier, one searchable surface
/pricing
AI quotation engine
Generates customer-ready quotes from cargo input in <90s
/quotes
Carrier comparison engine
Spot rates, contract rates, transit time, free time — side by side
/compare
Tariff intelligence system
Auto-extracts pricing from PDFs, XLS, email and WhatsApp
/tariffs
Surcharge & margin automation
BAF, CAF, THC, LSS, ISPS — calculated, applied, audited
/automation
One platform · two ways to price

Get an instant rate — or make
your agents compete for it.

Susea is the only ocean-freight OS that does both. Grab a live spot rate when you need a price now, or run a structured RFQ to your own agent network when the volume is worth a negotiation.

Spot pricing

Instant rates

Compare live rates across 120+ carriers and send a branded customer quote in under 90 seconds — no negotiation needed.

  • Live multi-carrier rate comparison
  • AI tariff extraction & surcharge automation
  • Customer-ready quote in seconds
Best when you need a price right now
Procurement

Run an RFQ

Float a multi-lane tender to your own forwarders and agents, let them compete in a live reverse auction, and award the best — all audit-ready.

  • Launch to your whole agent network in one click
  • Live reverse auction with real-time ranking
  • AI recommendation, approval matrix & contracts
Best when volume justifies a negotiation
Same tariffs, same carriers, same quote engine — one source of truth
Pricing intelligence

An AI-powered Bloomberg terminal,
for ocean freight.

Compare carriers in real time. Watch market trends across trade lanes. Get AI-suggested routings and validity windows — for every container you ship.

PricingSchedulesSurchargesMarket trendsSaved lanes12
Search lane, port, carrier…⌘K
INNSA
Nhava Sheva
India
▸
AEJEA
Jebel Ali
UAE
Distance · 1,940 nmTransit · 7–10 daysSailings · 14/weekVolatility · + moderate
20' GP40' GP40' HC40' RFLCL
Carrier
All-in
Transit
Free time
Valid
MA Maritime A
$1,420
7d
14d
Dec 02
BEST
OC Oceanic Co
$1,475
8d
14d
Nov 30
PA Pacific Line
$1,510
6d
10d
Dec 04
FAST
EV Eastern Ven.
$1,540
10d
21d
Dec 02
FREE TIME
SR Sealink Roy.
$1,612
8d
10d
Nov 28
HN Harbor Nine
$1,684
9d
14d
Dec 06
Spot market — 40' GP · last 30 days
Index: Susea Ocean Pricing · INNSA→AEJEA
$1,486 ▲ 4.2%
$1,600$1,450$1,300Oct 26Nov 02Nov 09Nov 16Nov 23INNSA → AEJEA spotGlobal FBX ocean index
Surcharge breakdown · 40' GP
BAF — Bunker Adj.$84.00
CAF — Currency Adj.$36.00
THC origin (INNSA)$62.00
THC destination (AEJEA)$78.00
LSS — Low Sulphur$28.00
ISPS / Security$12.00
Documentation$35.00
Subtotal surcharges$335.00
AI recommendation

Route via Mundra → Jebel Ali on Maritime A. Saves $184 versus current best, with same 7-day transit. GRI announced Dec 1 — lock booking by Nov 28.

Active trade lanes
INNSA → AEJEA$1,420 ▲4.2%
INMUN → NLRTM$2,840 ▼1.1%
INMAA → SGSIN$ 980 ▲2.6%
INPAV → USNYC$3,260 ▲0.8%
INNSA → ZADUR$1,710 ▼3.3%
Global trade lane network
Live vessel routing · 427 sailings across 17 carriers
India lanes · 12High activity
INNSA · Nhava ShevaAEJEAEGPSDZADURSGSINIDJKTNLRTMAUSYDCNSHA
How an RFQ works

Launch → bid → compare → award,
in days — not a month.

1

Build & launch

Upload many lanes at once and float the RFQ to your own agents in a single click — spot or contract.

2

Agents bid live

Invited agents bid in your chosen visibility mode — sealed, rank-only, best-price or open — and re-bid down to climb the ranking.

3

AI compares & ranks

Every bid is normalized and sanity-checked. AI recommends the best agent by cost, transit or schedule.

4

Approve & award

Route the winner through your approval matrix with documented justification — fully audit-ready.

5

Contract & track

Awarded rates become digital contracts. Susea tracks utilization so negotiated savings actually land.

Live reverse auction

Make your agents compete
for every shipment.

Invite your own forwarder and agent network to one live auction. Choose how much they see — sealed, rank-only, best-price or fully open. They bid down to win, and most of the negotiation is over before you step in.

RFQ-2207Nhava Sheva → Jebel Ali · 40' HC × 1208 agents invited
4:30 left
Bidder visibility
Vendors see only their own rank — never prices.· recommended
Buyer view · full visibilityRound · 1 of 3Lowest bid · $1,430Spread · $94
4
MCMeridian Cargo
$1,492 USD
8d · 94%
—
3
BWBlueWave Shipping
$1,468 USD
7d · 98%
—
2
TLTrident Logistics
$1,455 USD
9d · 91%
—
5
CFContinental Freight
$1,510 USD
8d · 96%
—
1
AXApex Forwarders
$1,430 USD
8d · 93%
—
6
HCHarbor & Co
$1,524 USD
10d · 89%
—
Agents see only their own rank — never competitors' prices.
Agent's view · BlueWave Shipping
#3 / 8
Lower your bid to climb the ranking
Your bid$1,468
AI award recommendation

Award Apex Forwarders — lowest bid but best service blend: 93% on-time, 8-day transit. Updating as bids land…

Live activity
Waiting for first bids…
Approval matrix
Auction completed
2Pricing lead review
3Finance sign-off · > $150k
4Contract issued · audit-logged
Features

A complete pricing & procurement
stack for freight forwarders.

Everything a modern pricing desk needs — quotation, comparison, extraction, surcharge automation, competitive RFQs and visibility — in one operating system.

AI quotation engine

Generate branded, customer-ready quotes in under 90 seconds — per lane, per container, per customer.

Multi-carrier pricing

Live rates from 120+ shipping lines, normalized into one comparable surface.

Spot rate comparison

Side-by-side spot vs. contract pricing with transit, free-time and validity deltas.

Tariff AI extraction

Drop any PDF, XLS or forwarded WhatsApp rate — Susea reads it like a pricing analyst.

Surcharge automation

BAF · CAF · THC · LSS · ISPS — modeled, applied and enforced on every booking.

RFQ & reverse auctions

Float multi-lane tenders to your own agents and let them compete live to win.

WhatsApp & email quote sharing

Send branded spot quotes straight to your customers over WhatsApp or email — with read receipts and one-tap acceptance.

RFQ over WhatsApp & email

Invite agents and push live bid requests and updates on the channels they already use — no new login required.

Contracts & utilization

Awarded rates become digital contracts — with utilization tracked so negotiated savings actually land.

Margin & profit insights

Per-quote, per-customer, per-lane margin analytics — engineered, not guessed.

Carrier rate management

One source of truth for every carrier contract, GRI and surcharge update.

Shipment visibility

Live container tracking with ETA prediction and exception alerts.

Why Susea

Faster quotes. Tighter margins.
Smarter awards.

One operating system replaces the spreadsheets, the WhatsApp threads and the month-long tenders — for both instant pricing and competitive procurement.

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Faster quotation creation across pricing desks running Susea.
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Lower freight cost once your agents compete in a live auction.
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Carrier rates compared on every quote, in one view.
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From launching a tender to a signed, audited award.

Before Susea

Spreadsheets & sequential calls

  • ✕ Rates scattered across Excel & WhatsApp
  • ✕ Agents negotiated one at a time, by phone
  • ✕ Quotes re-typed by hand · margin guessed
  • ✕ Tenders take 4–6 weeks to award
  • ✕ Customers wait hours for a price
  • ✕ Selection & savings impossible to audit

After Susea

One AI pricing & procurement OS

  • ✓ Live rates from 120+ carriers on one surface
  • ✓ Your whole agent network competes in one click
  • ✓ Branded customer quotes in < 90 seconds
  • ✓ Tenders awarded in 1–3 days, audit-ready
  • ✓ Quote and award from one operating system
  • ✓ Every price, bid and award fully logged
Early access · Cohort 02

Join the future of freight pricing.

Get early access to Susea and modernize your freight quotation workflows with AI-powered pricing intelligence. Limited spots — onboarding forwarders and logistics companies this quarter.

142 forwarders on the waitlistWhite-glove onboardingLifetime founder pricing
2.4M+
Quotes modeled
200+
Shipping lines
38
Trade lanes
Limited early access for freight forwarders & logistics teams.