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Shipments booked, documented and tracked to delivery.

Also called: Freight Forwarding Coordinator, Import/Export Coordinator, Shipping Coordinator

From US$4.50 an hourUS$4.50-22.50/hr

  • Logistics
  • Manufacturing & wholesale
  • E-commerce
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  • Works your hours
  • Colombia hub, on New York time or an hour behind
  • Month to month
What your Logistics Coordinator gets doneSample day
  • Confirms cargo-ready dates with suppliersBooking & shipment planning
  • Prepares or checks commercial invoices, packing listsTrade documentation
  • Sends a complete clearance pack to the customs brokerCustoms & compliance support
  • Tracks cargo through carrier portals and visibility toolsTracking & exception managementDoing
In your tools
  • SAP
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Google Sheets
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • DocuSign
  • Slack

Pick the level. See the price.

US$9an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
A local mid-level adminUS$22.86/hr
A tested Intermediate Logistics CoordinatorUS$9/hr
60-75% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Benefits and payroll taxes would add to the local cost.Local pay at the same level, before benefits and payroll taxes and leave.

Owns booking to delivery on standard FCL, LCL and air shipments and prepares full customs packs.

  • Booking confirmations and shipment plans by PO
  • Complete customs packs with validated HS codes and values
  • Inbound arrival schedule for the warehouse

2-4 years coordinating imports or exports, with responsibility for bookings, documentation and customs broker liaison on regular lanes.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management.

What you hand to your Logistics Coordinator

Tasks

  • Booking & shipment planning

    • Confirms cargo-ready dates with suppliers
    • Consolidates shipments where it saves cost
    • Arranges container pick-up, cartage, empty returns

  • Trade documentation

    • Prepares or checks commercial invoices, packing lists
    • Validates consignee details, weights, values, currencies, HS codes
    • Handles dangerous goods declarations

  • Customs & compliance support

    • Sends a complete clearance pack to the customs broker
    • Confirms import permits, biosecurity, product-specific approvals
    • Keeps shipment and customs records in an organized archive

  • Tracking & exception management

    • Tracks cargo through carrier portals and visibility tools
    • Resolves holds, delays, short shipments and damage

  • Cost control & reporting

    • Monitors free time and prevent demurrage, detention and storage charges
    • Reconciles forwarder and broker invoices against quotes and bookings
    • Publishes inbound schedules for the warehouse

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written business EnglishAll levels30 min
  2. Trade document checkAll levels60 min
  3. Incoterms and shipment lifecycle knowledge testAll levels25 min
  4. Freight cost and demurrage calculation testAll levels35 min
  5. Shipment exception caseIntermediate and up40 min
  6. Forwarding system exerciseAll levels45 min

One score on every profileSample shown

92%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Logistics Coordinator is US$4.50 an hour, Intermediate US$9, Expert US$14 and Specialist US$22.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month.

Booking & shipment planning, trade documentation, customs & compliance support and tracking & exception management, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written business English, trade document check and incoterms and shipment lifecycle knowledge test. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Logistics Coordinator works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United States clients is in Colombia, on New York time or an hour behind.

Yes, where it helps. Your Logistics Coordinator works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Logistics Coordinator owns booking to delivery on standard FCL, LCL and air shipments and prepares full customs packs. An Expert Logistics Coordinator handles complex or high-value shipments and negotiates rates and free time. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Logistics Coordinator is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as CargoWise One and Magaya, before you meet them.

In week one: access granted to the forwarding or logistics system, carrier and forwarder portals; current shipments list reviewed; and free time, demurrage and detention terms gathered for each carrier and port. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called Freight Forwarding Coordinator, Import/Export Coordinator and Shipping Coordinator. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Book a 15-minute demo any time, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away. You can also message us on WhatsApp on +61 485 061 086, or email hello@gethands.com.au.

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