Find the right carriers. Normalise their rate sheets.
Compare in a click.
Our AI agent identifies the most relevant carriers out of 100,000 European operators and normalises their rate sheets — parcel, groupage, ancillary surcharges — into a single structured view, for objective side-by-side comparison.
“30 ADR class 3 tankers, Italy ↔ Northern France lane”
3 qualified carriers
- 98% Match
TransLogi Spa
Turin · 45 tankers · ADR 3/6/8
- 94% Match
Chimico Trasporti
Milan · 32 tankers · ISO 9001 + SQAS
- 91% Match
Nordic Tank Lines
Lyon · 28 tankers · ADR 2/3/8
Built for Transport Procurement and Supply Chain teams
The problem
Carrier sourcing AND rate comparison are broken.
Procurement teams keep tendering the same carriers year after year. And when offers come back, serious comparison is impossible: every carrier has its own format, its own weight brackets, its own surcharges.
Always the same carriers
Your tenders revolve around a small circle of known operators. Without market visibility, you miss the best-fit carriers.
Unreadable, heterogeneous rate sheets
Excel, PDF, scans, proprietary formats. Every carrier has its own structure, brackets and zones. Zero native comparability.
Ancillary surcharges scattered and opaque
Fuel, appointment, tail lift, ADR, tarpaulin, tolls… Every surcharge is expressed differently. Real gaps get lost in the noise.
Features
Sourcing and transport pricing, in one platform
An AI that identifies the right carriers — and automatically normalises their rate sheets so they're finally comparable.
Natural-language search
Describe your need like you would to a colleague. The AI understands business criteria (ADR, reefer, bulk, lanes, certifications).
100,000-carrier database
Full European coverage. Each carrier is deeply analysed from its website and public sources.
Automatic pre-qualification
Fleet, lanes, certifications, specialisations: every key criterion is extracted and structured for a reliable shortlist.
Rate-sheet normalisation
Parcel, groupage, FTL: the AI structures each carrier's Excel, PDF or scanned rate sheets into a unified schema.
Ancillary surcharges decoded
Fuel, appointment, tail lift, ADR, tarpaulin, tolls, demurrage: every surcharge is extracted, labelled and made comparable.
Multi-carrier comparator
Compare offers side by side on every bracket, zone and surcharge. The best price per line stands out instantly.
How it works
One unified flow for sourcing and comparison
Four simple steps — whether you're looking for new carriers or comparing rate sheets you've received.
- 01
State your need or import rate sheets
Describe your spec in natural language, or drop in the rate sheets you've received (Excel, PDF, email).
- 02
The AI analyses, extracts and normalises
Sourcing across 100,000 carriers and/or extraction of brackets, zones and ancillary surcharges into a unified schema.
- 03
Get your unified view
Qualified shortlist for sourcing, multi-carrier comparator for pricing: everything is ready to act on.
- 04
Decide and negotiate
Tender more broadly, arbitrate your allocations, negotiate from a factual, objective position.
The pricing AI
Heterogeneous rate sheets, crystal-clear comparison.
You receive Excel, PDF, scanned rate sheets — each with its own brackets, zones and surcharges. The AI normalises them into a unified schema and displays them side by side. The best line pops out instantly.
- Ingests parcel, groupage and FTL rate sheets in any format (Excel, PDF, scans, email)
- Automatic normalisation of weight brackets, zones, departments, international destinations
- Extracts ancillary surcharges: fuel, appointment, tail lift, ADR, tarpaulin, tolls, demurrage
- Side-by-side comparator with the best offer highlighted per line and per surcharge
3 parcel rate sheets normalised · France
| Carrier | 0–30 kg | 31–100 kg | 101–500 kg | ADR | Fuel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TransLogi Spa | €28.40 | €52.10 | €148 | +12% | +8.4% |
| Chimico Trasporti | €31.90 | €48.60 | €152 | +10% | +9.2% |
| Nordic Tank Lines | €30.20 | €54.70 | €142 | +8% | +7.8% |
Use cases
Designed for every transport flow
Whatever your industry, the AI identifies qualified carriers and makes their rate sheets comparable.
Chemicals & dangerous goods
ADR classes, stainless tankers, SQAS certifications. Targeted sourcing and normalised ADR surcharges for comparison.
Food & temperature-controlled
Reefer, frozen, multi-temperature. IFS Logistics verified, appointment and tail-lift fees made comparable.
Construction & bulk
Tippers, flatbeds, solid bulk. Regional shortlists plus per-km rates and fuel surcharges side by side.
Retail & e-commerce
Full truckloads, pallets, B2B parcel. Normalised parcel rate sheets across every bracket and zone.
Industry & cross-border flows
Heavy haulage, equipment, import/export. Multi-country comparison with ancillary surcharges extracted.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you want to know
Can't find your answer? Reach out, we reply within 24 hours.
Our engine continuously crawls the public websites of European carriers, extracts business information (fleet, lanes, certifications, specialisations) and structures it into a semantically searchable database.
Excel, PDF (text or scanned), Word, images, email attachments. The AI handles parcel, groupage and FTL rate sheets regardless of their initial level of structuring.
Every surcharge (fuel, appointment, tail lift, ADR, tarpaulin, toll, etc.) is identified, reduced to a common base (%, €/shipment, €/kg…) and mapped to a unified vocabulary for true comparison.
No. Carrier Bridge is exclusively designed for shippers: manufacturers, distributors, traders and their Transport Procurement and Supply Chain teams.
Yes. Your queries, rate sheets, tenders and comparisons are strictly confidential. European hosting, GDPR compliance, encryption in transit and at rest.
Yes. Standard exports (CSV, Excel) for shortlists and comparisons, plus custom integrations (API, webhooks) with the leading TMS and ERP solutions.
Contact
Ready to transform sourcing and rate comparison?
Tell us about your context — we'll set up a demo with your own rate sheets and your real flows.
hello@carrierbridge.com