Is your company expanding and beginning to ship more and more items across the country or around the world? It might be time to up your shipping game by getting on board with a freight or transportation brokerage. Here's what a freight brokerage can do for you and your cargo.

Acts as a Go-Between

Right now, you are probably sending your products off to various shipping services. The way a freight broker works is you simply send everything you need to be shipped to them first, and then they hand off the cargo to the shipping services for you. While this sounds like you are adding an extra step to the shipping process (and you are), it's actually beneficial for you in a number of different ways.

Save Time

By simply handing off all of your shipping concerns to a brokerage, you will likely be freeing up quite a bit of time that you otherwise have to spend on your supply chain. You will send each and every piece of cargo to the same brokerage, and then they will re-route the cargo for you to the most appropriate shipping service. When you need to check in on a shipment, you can simply call the brokerage and get an answer instead of trying to remember which cargo was sent to which shipping service.

Cut Costs

By outsourcing your shipments in this way, you may be able to completely eliminate your own shipping department. Your transportation brokerage will offer an end to end solution that will allow you to focus on simply creating more products or getting more sales without having to worry about shipments at all. Cutting the size of or eliminating your own shipping center can help you dramatically cut costs, adding a boost to your bottom line thanks to lowered expenses.

Is Easy to Scale

As your business grows, you may be able to avoid some of the headaches that come with it thanks to your freight brokerage. Instead of having to negotiate a different rate with each shipper as your cargo haul expands, your freight brokerage will be able to deal with this for you. In fact, you are likely to get a better rate right from the beginning because most freight brokerages are already massive companies that are able to get discounts by moving a large amount of cargo.

Reach out to a local freight or transportation brokerage today for more information.