Margin per shipment, FX and carrier costs under control, at the speed of international trade.
Freight forwarders, customs brokers, importers and exporters work on thin margins, with freight and taxes tied to foreign currency and dozens of vendors on every shipment. Logistics and freight forwarding is a core area of expertise for Solidy: we know this business from the inside.
Three profiles, one shared reality: cargo crossing borders and thin margins.
Freight forwarders
Freight forwarders and NVOCCs: consolidation, bills of lading, sell rates and carrier costs, all in the same job.
Customs brokers
Fees per job, third-party disbursements, client cash advances and deadlines that can't slip.
Importers and exporters
FX, taxes on imports and exports, logistics cost per product and margin by market.
Controllership that sees every shipment and turns operations into insight.
From booking to invoice, every job becomes data: where it's stuck, what it cost, what it earned and which vendor handled it. That's how margin stops being something you discover at the close.
Controllership · WIPupdatedactual target
Average cost per TEU · Santos → Rotterdam lane · incl. local charges and demurrage
Example with hypothetical data and names.
Which lane, which customer and which carrier actually make money?
With your own revenue kept separate from pass-through costs and every cost tied to its job, margin shows up by lane, by customer and by carrier, in time to revisit the quote for the next shipment.
Explore CFO as a Service →Amounts in R$ thousands · example with hypothetical data
Five places where shipment profit slips away.
In international trade, the mistake is rarely a big one. It's small, repeated on every shipment and discovered months later.
FX between quote and payment
Freight sold at one dollar rate and paid to the carrier at another: the difference vanishes without anyone noticing.
Demurrage and detention
A container held past free time turns into a cost that isn't always passed on to the customer.
Local charges not passed on
THC, storage, documentation fees and terminal charges that never make it onto the invoice.
Pass-through costs mixed with your own revenue
Booking money that belongs to the carrier as company revenue distorts both margin and taxes.
Delivered but not invoiced
A completed shipment that is slow to be invoiced means idle cash and the risk of forgotten costs.
No job forgotten. No cost without an owner.
Every shipment closes with revenue, costs and margin checked, before the next one begins.
With CBS and IBS, the math of international trade changes.
Imports, freight forwarding services and freight charges move to the rules of the new taxes, with broad-based input tax credits for the businesses that buy them. During the transition, the old and new systems run side by side, and the review of pricing and contracts starts now.
- 2026Test year, with CBS and IBS shown on invoices
- 2027CBS takes effect; PIS and Cofins are phased out
- 2029–2032ICMS and ISS phase down; IBS phases in
- 2033New system fully in place
Every Solidy practice, applied to international trade.
Your own revenue kept separate from pass-through costs, FX gains and losses, and results by job.
→Tax ComplianceISS, PIS, Cofins and withholdings on freight forwarding services, checked every month.
→Finance OperationsPayments to carriers and overseas agents, FX and collections by job.
→CFO and ControllershipWIP, margin per shipment, FX exposure and pricing decisions backed by numbers.
→Tax AdvisoryTaxation of pass-through costs, tax credits and readiness for CBS and IBS.
→Data and BIBI connected to your operational and legacy systems, with the whole operation on one dashboard.
→Talk to people who know the day-to-day of international trade. The first conversation is already about your operation.
Tell us how many jobs you run per month, which lanes you serve and which systems your operation uses. You'll walk away knowing where margin is leaking and where to start.