Freight Project & Tasks

Article information

Audience: Operations Manager, Team Lead, Operations Staff

Estimated time: ~3 minutes to select the right article; task creation time is covered in the detail article.

Outcome: Users know when to use tasks and timesheets against a shipment to control workload and labor costs.

Freight Project turns a shipment into a structured set of work items with assignees, deadlines, and logged hours. It adds an operations management layer on top of booking, container execution, documents, and Charges.

Tip

Quick checkpoint: For complex sea shipments or those handled by multiple team members, create tasks covering booking, VGM/container, customs, documents, and finance before the shipment enters its peak stage.

Common scenarios

Situation	How to handle
Multiple people on the same shipment with no clear ownership.	Create tasks against the shipment, assign each to a specific person, and set deadlines.
Profit looks good on paper but the shipment consumed significant effort.	Ask team members to log timesheets so labor cost is visible for review.
Shipment is marked Done but tasks remain open.	Review all open tasks before closing the shipment, and update the task template for future shipments.

• Shipment Task and Project Management