It refers to a company that starts as an intermediary, between the carriers, the companies that need to send the merchandise and the companies that need to hire a transportation team, who is in charge of finding available carriers and hiring their service to move the products.
There are many transport exchanges, since in addition to finding carriers, available loads and available loads, they also come to carry out the work of transport.It must be taken into account that the transport broker can be with the carriers as well as with third parties.This is very common to happen in the American market, however in Europe it is not so widespread since its objective is to facilitate the transfer of products and optimize shipping costs, as well as using digital platforms or time tracking systems.to manage the transport of products efficiently.