Abstract: A system for providing a user with international shipping rates in real time. The system includes a client, a shipping rates database comprising current shipping rate information for a plurality of freight forwarders, and a server comprising a processor. The processor is programmed to receive, from the client, a request for shipping rates for shipping a freight from an origin location in an origin country to a destination location in a destination country, access, from the shipping rates database, current shipping rate information for each of the plurality of freight forwarders, and send the client a shipping rate for each of the plurality of freight forwarders based on shipping the freight from the origin location to the destination location.