We are a visibility company that happens to move freight.
Founded in Rotterdam in 2009 by four forwarders who were tired of telling clients they would “check and come back” — we built the scanning layer first, then the network around it.
Founded in Rotterdam
People worldwide
Countries served
Bonded facilities
Owned vehicles
Built to answer one question honestly.
“Where is my shipment?” sounds simple. In 2009 it was not. Answering it meant phoning a partner agent, who phoned a handling company, who checked a paper manifest — and by the time an answer came back it described where the cargo had been, not where it was.
Our founders had spent a combined sixty years in forwarding and were done apologising for that. So they inverted the usual order: instead of buying trucks and bolting tracking on afterwards, they built the event pipeline first and only signed carriers who would scan into it.
That constraint cost us capacity in the early years. It also meant that by 2014, when the industry started talking about visibility, we already had five years of clean milestone data and a control tower staffed around the clock.
Today RapidCourierGo moves air, ocean, road and rail freight across 142 countries. The rule has not changed: if a movement cannot be scanned, we do not sell it.
Sixteen years, one direction.
Founded in Rotterdam
Four forwarders, one leased office beside the Maasvlakte, and a scanning pipeline written before the first customer signed.
First bonded warehouse
Duty-suspended storage opens in Rotterdam, connecting inventory and freight in a single record for the first time.
Control tower goes 24/7
Round-the-clock exception desk established across three time zones. Median response time drops below fifteen minutes.
Asia-Pacific network
Own offices open in Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. Ocean volume triples within eighteen months.
GDP cold chain certified
Validated pharmaceutical lanes launch with continuous data-logger telemetry and a documented excursion procedure.
Africa and LATAM expansion
Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg and Sao Paulo join the owned-office network, closing the last major coverage gaps.
Emissions reporting standard
GLEC-aligned CO2e figures ship on every consignment, with lower-carbon routing modelled at quote stage.
142 countries live
The network reaches 142 countries with 86 bonded facilities and a fleet of more than 1,900 owned vehicles.
Four rules we do not bend.
If it cannot be scanned, we do not sell it
Every leg of every service must emit machine-readable events. A partner who will not scan is a partner we do not use.
You hear it from us first
When something goes wrong the control tower calls you before you notice. Bad news early beats good news late.
One all-in number
Quotes include handling, documentation and the surcharges we can foresee. Invoices match the quote or we explain why in writing.
A name, not a queue
Every account has a named coordinator with a direct line. Escalation goes to a person, not a ticket form.
Sixteen years of scans. Put them to work.
Bring us your hardest lane — the one that keeps slipping — and we will show you what honest visibility does to it.