Ocean documents
Generation and tracking of ocean transport documents, automatically attached to the file with an audit trail on issued versions.
About
Freight brokerage software built from the field
FlowForwarder is published by Atomart, a software studio building products for industries where digital tooling has lagged behind practice. Freight brokerage is one of them: a global, coordination-heavy sector still largely run from an inbox and a spreadsheet.
Our mission
Simplify freight brokerage for Africa and Europe. Not by replacing the broker — the value of the job lies in knowing the lanes, the partners and the customers — but by removing the mechanical part of the work: reading, re-keying, sourcing, chasing, comparing, formatting.
Market tools were designed for large Western shippers, with contract rate grids and predictable flows. Brokerage works differently: on the spot market, by email, in several currencies, with local charges that vary from port to port. A useful tool must start from that reality, not correct it.
Our vision
Europe–Africa and Asia–Africa flows are getting denser and more complex. Local forwarders and brokers hold a real advantage: they know the ports, the procedures, the actual lead times. What they lack is the capacity to handle more requests without growing headcount at the same pace.
We want that local advantage to scale. A five-person broker should be able to reply as fast and as precisely as an international network, without sacrificing the relationship that makes the difference.
Roadmap
What we are building next
We prefer announcing a clear trajectory rather than features available “soon”. The priorities below come from user feedback.
Carrier and NVOCC integrations
Direct retrieval of rates and availability from partners exposing an interface, to shorten quotation time further.
Regional compliance
Support for the documentary requirements of each import market, starting with West and North Africa.
Multilingual
Interface and communications in French, English, Spanish and Arabic, matching the reality of the corridors we cover.
Product roadmap
In progress
- Customer portal
- EDI import
Next
- Public API
- Mobile app
Shipped
- AI email extraction
- Multimodal tracking
A suggestion, a need specific to your corridor or a regulatory constraint we should cover? Write to us from the contact page: user requests directly shape our development priorities.
Let us work on your real files
We support every new organisation on its first files to check that extraction matches your corridors and writing habits.
No credit card required to start.