African Logistics startup, Kobo360 has launched its new app recently at its Lagos office. The app according to the logistics startup was built to boost speed and efficiency in the African transportation market.
The launch of the Kobo360 logistics app follows a three-month pilot that saw over 1,800 downloads with over 10,000 drivers expected to migrate over to the new platform in the coming weeks.
One unique feature of the app is that it has inbuilt bidding tools for customers and drivers to evaluate the cost of a trucking service before deciding which to select.
Other features of the Kobo360 logistics app are digitised waybills with automated invoices after completed trips, real-time tracking of cargos and trucks as well as enhanced reporting and analytics. and customised dashboard and multi-language functions to facilitate intra-African trade.
Yesterday, we officially released our brand new app, Kobo, at a launch event in our Lagos offices
— Kobo360 (@kobo_360) March 30, 2019
A massive thank you to not only all of the attendees but also our software engineering team, who've been working tirelessly to see how we can make cargo delivery faster and easier pic.twitter.com/hlATeI3Gqc
Kobo360 CEO Obi Ozor says: “The Kobo App has been built to make the business of doing business, easier, faster, more efficient for our customers. We partner with trusted shippers and carriers to handle their most important and immediate FTL freight needs and this app will wrap the entire process in secure, innovative and world-class technology this is not found anywhere else in the world.”
Tosin Adesipe Kobo360 Head of Tech adds: “Business on the continent is powered by mobile – especially logistics, where the cargo is literally on the move; our clients and drivers are too. We have spent months building and refining the Kobo App with the specific needs of our customers and drivers central to our design process. Our job is to ensure that they are able to execute their business requirements quickly, securely and on-budget. This new app and the product features that we have developed are the very best piece of apparatus to enable them to move cargo around the continent”.
The logistics startup is currently having a rollercoaster truck ride as it is expanding to other parts of Africa, raised funding from the IFC in December and won the “Disrupter of the Year” Award at the Africa CEO forum.
