BidShip Pty Ltd

General information

Welcome to BidShip, South Africa’s first Business-to-business online transport marketplace.

When people travel they usually travel from one point to another and always return like someone traveling to work only to return home later.

However freight trucks are normally employed in one direction only and goods are collected at one point and delivered at another point. This creates challenges for transport companies as they often cannot find goods to transport back to their point of origin. This creates inefficiencies as the transport companies experience transport legs that carry no goods. Roughly 30% of all trucks traveling on South African roads are empty.

Another challenge, this time faced by shippers, is that they have a small portfolio of transporters and basic economics insist that this does not drive competitiveness. Road Transport rates in most cases are set either monthly, quarterly or annually and are comprised of complex calculations involving fuel surcharges and other levies. This is very difficult to understand and to administrate.

Bidship offers an online transport marketplace where shippers that need goods transported meet with transporters who have excess loads or space available on their trucks.

Shippers simply list their transport requirements or load details and competing transporters bid for your delivery. The process is facilitated by reverse auction style bidding which drives the price of transport down. This means that you will no longer pay set prices but rather dynamic pricing which is purely driven by supply and demand of vehicles available in the market or area. When transporters compete you win.

The process is simple:
1.You place your free listing at Bidship.co.za and set your collection and delivery address along with your required transport timeframe. Select your target price and bid closing date and time.
2.Hundreds of transporters are then notified of your new listing.
3.Competing transporters then bid on your shipment.
4.You are notified of any bids placed and you can then appoint your preferred transporter.
5.Once you accept the bid your transporter is then notified and he will then receive the transport consignment note which details the shipment information.
6.While your goods are in transit you have access to live tracking of your shipment on Bidship.co.za This will allow you to track your shipment on one source even if you use multiple transporters at the same time.
7.You are then notified once the goods are delivered.

All transporters go through an intense due diligence process to ensure that they meet the industry standard terms and conditions which includes transport and goods insurance.

Best of all the BidShip services are free to shippers. Transporters pay a small percentage matching fee but this fee is minimal given the opportunities of optimising the use of their vehicles. Transporters who don’t have the means to market their business can now use BidShip as a reach service to attract loads they would normally not have access to through their normal marketing channels.

Our Transporter registration phase has just opened so please feel free to go to www.bidship.co.za to register as a transporter.

Alternatively if you would like to join the BidShip Team as a sales affiliate then please send your CV to sales@bidship.co.za and we will be in contact with you.

For general information please contact us on info@bidship.co.za

We look forward to facilitating your next shipment