New app to facilitate seamless haulage in transport sector

The logistics industry in Nigeria is set to witness a boost on Friday with the unveiling of an application software- CentralDispatchAfrica.com- a digital market place solutions in the transportation industry in Nigeria.
The app, which is simple and easy to use, will bridge the gap between shippers and carriers and stimulate efficiency in the movement of goods in a transparent and profitable coordination.
Central Dispatch Africa’s Founder and CEO, Frank Eson, while speaking ahead of Friday’s unveiling of the app at the Civic Centre in Lagos described it as the needed platform that provides shippers, transporters and brokers with the most efficient and safest way to ship goods by bringing technology to the transportation market-place. Eson disclosed that CentralDispatchAfrica.com is borne out of the need for a system that could utilise the advances in technology, to bring efficiency, profitability, transparency and lower costs for both the transporters and shippers.
“It is a known fact that transactions in haulage transportation in Nigeria have largely been untouched by technology. A lot of inefficiencies exist in the dispatching, sourcing, transparency, profitability, and cost. All these issues will be aptly resolved by CentralDispatchAfrica.com as it is a reliable app for the shippers and transporters to meet and conduct business,” he said.
On how the app works, vice president- operations, Central Dispatch Africa, Maurice Inah, said  with centraldispatchafrica, all a shipper needs to do is to log on to the system and post the goods being shipped, showing where they are going and what they are willing to pay to have them shipped and the transporters will contact them directly.
Inah explained that on the part of transporters, they will search the loads that shippers have posted on centraldispatchafrica, each posting includes where the load is going and what the shipper is willing to pay to have the load shipped, adding that when the transporter finds a load that is traveling along their route for an acceptable price, they contact the broker or shipper directly to offer to take the load.
“We are providing solutions that span the length and breadth of Nigeria in particular and Africa in general, to both truck and good owners and we are starting off with a free one-month trial for shippers and transporters to see that centraldispatchafrica has truly come to change the face of haulage and transportation industry in Nigeria” he concluded.

 

Odinaka Anudu