MANILA -- Small and medium enterprises stand to benefit from a pioneering mobile app that will enable them to ship their goods and commodities around the country at cheaper shipping rates.
Carga Backload Solution chief executive officer Samson Lato said they target 2,000 shipments a day that will be booked through the mobile app, Carga.
“Carga will pick up multiple packages as long as along the way with the first shipment that registered. It (truck) can pick up multiple packages provided it is not yet full. Shippers can choose what type of trucks they intend to avail,” he said in a press briefing Wednesday.
Lato said the company has already registered over 150 trucks and will approve more in the coming days. Carga owns 20 trucks.
The 24/7 app offers several vehicle model options like forward and semi-forward trucks as well as 4 to 12-wheeler trucks from its own fleet and partner corporate and private truckers.
Carga regularly dispatches trucks all over Luzon and to any point in the Visayas and Mindanao via roll-on/roll-off (RoRo).
Lato said Carga charges fixed rates based on gasoline usage and distance.
Carga chief information officer Allan Catu said based on testing they have undertaken, “we are 35 percent to 60 percent cheaper (compared with) other logistics companies.”
Lato said with the mobile app, they hope to provide a solution to the problem of some companies when they dispatch their goods and commodities in the provinces but only to have these trucks return to Manila empty.
“If we want to alleviate traffic, one thing is, put a load on it. It lessens the number of trucks traveling from one point to the other; it increases the profitability of the trucking companies because they will no longer travel empty,” he added.
Lato said the app will start accepting shipment bookings on Thursday. (PNA)
