TradeAndShipNet is an independent group of consulting enterprises with expertise in trade, transportation, international law, banking, insurance, marketing and regulatory compliance. Their mission is to support the needs and services required by international trade. Providing assistance to small and medium size companies engaged or planning to engage in international commerce.It provides users with instant calculations of freight rates for ground, air, and water transportation by a simple click and drag action of the mouse over a map that renders a point-to-point geographic location, its distance and the time needed to complete a particular shipment.

The company understand that new rulings in the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998 have failed in making rates easily available to the public, mentioning that "Freight rates are either unavailable to the common user or difficult and expensive to obtain through third parties that provide a peek tariff service by subscription or charges by the minute for looking up freight rates that belong in the public domain. For which declare that the vision of TradeAndShipNet.com is to fill in these blanks in view of the failure of the industry to provide users with a tool for instant calculation of freight rates free of charge.

At their Web site www.tradeshipandnet.com users can download a tool for estimating the cost of shipping goods from location to location by sea, air or ground transportation. Freight quotes are based on a statistical average for an specific route, based on information from the Federal Maritime Commission.

The company based in Miami also offers consulting services in international trade, Marketing, providing International Market Research. Quick reviews of the investment climate, taxation, forms of business organization, and business and accounting practices in over a 100 countries, Export Management handling exports needs including transportation and logistics, export credit and trade insurance, clearing customs and obtaining an export license as needed for restricted products.

They are also involved in Consulting on trends regarding shipping costs, ship building, ship chartering, ship repair and conversion, ship finance, ship sales, bulk carrier markets, container market, container ship market. Tracking of the merchant marine world fleet active and inactive vessels and the markets of the volume-capacity fleet of Handysize, Handymax, Panamax and Capasize. Insurance Services managing cargo risk for consolidators, indirect air carriers, surveyors, intermodal shipping, inland carriers.