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About NEX

One container. One broken spreadsheet.

NEX Freight was founded in Rotterdam in 2008 by two ops people who were tired of answering "where is my cargo?" with a shrug. The company grew from that question.

2008
Founded in Rotterdam
Two ops people, one China lane
42
Offices & partners
Own desks at 7 gateways, licensed partners elsewhere
130+
Scheduled lanes
Published transit times and frequencies
6
Continents
Ocean, air, road and rail corridors
NEX Freight operations team reviewing shipment data around a table
Rotterdam HQ — the ops floorPhoto: Unsplash (preview only, see ASSET-CREDITS.md)
The story

Ops people, not salespeople, run the company.

Most freight forwarders are built around sales. We're built around operations: the people who know that a booking isn't real until the container is on the vessel.

That bias shows up in the product. Published schedules instead of "we'll figure it out". Statuses with definitions. ETAs with reasons. An ops desk that answers in business hours. We'd rather lose a deal on price than win one and lose the shipment.

  • 01

    Held accountable

    Every office reports on-time performance publicly, internally. No hiding behind "port congestion" for a mistake.

  • 02

    Written down

    Standard operating procedures for every lane and product. If it isn't documented, it isn't a product — it's a favor.

Milestones
Year Milestone
2008Founded in Rotterdam with one China lane and two employees.
2013Shanghai and Singapore offices open; first in-house customs desk.
2018NEX One platform launches — one timeline per shipment, by API.
2022Rail program scales; sustainability reporting becomes public.
202642 offices, 130+ lanes, 6 continents — still answering the phone.
How we work

Four rules we don't break

01
Tell the truth

A delay reported early is a plan; a delay reported late is a surprise. You always get the earlier version.

02
Own the outcome

One desk owns each shipment end to end. "That's the carrier's fault" is never the end of a sentence.

03
Publish the schedule

Transit times, frequencies, cut-offs — printed, not guessed. If it changes, you see why.

04
No fake controls

If a button doesn't do anything yet, it says so. Demo data is labeled demo data.

Work with us

Ship with a team that answers.

Start with a quote — or if you're an ops person who wants to help build this, write to careers@nexfreight.com.