Twenty years ago, we built SeaRates and helped move container shipping into the digital era. Today, it is part of DP World's ecosystem. Qubictron is the next chapter: built independently, powered by our own technology, and designed to stay open to the entire logistics market.
The founder's view
Why Qubictron
In 2005, online booking was almost nonexistent in container shipping.
SeaRates started with a small team, no major investment, and one ambition: to move logistics into the digital era.
Over the next twenty years, it grew into a global platform and was eventually acquired by DP World.
That journey proved something I still believe today:
"You don't need the biggest team or the biggest investment to change an industry. You need the right idea, the courage to build it, and the persistence to make the market believe in it."
Qubictron is the next step of that journey.
We are starting again with twenty years of experience, a new generation of AI and automation, and the same ambition to push logistics forward.
From putting freight rates online to rebuilding the whole tracking layer. What happened in between is easier to show than to explain.
'05
SeaRates goes live
Sergey launches SeaRates and puts freight rates, routes and schedules online for anyone to use.
A rate engine, a schedule database and a routing map, in an industry that still worked over the phone and by fax. SeaRates made instant quoting normal, and forwarders across the world built their day around it.
@searates20 years ago
'12
The market runs on it
Thousands of forwarders and cargo owners quote, plan and book through the platform every day.
Growth stopped being about features and started being about scale: more carriers, more lanes, more integrations, and an API that other products began to depend on. That is when it became clear the platform was infrastructure, not a website.
@market13 years ago
'20
DP World acquires the technology
A global operator buys the platform to make it the core of its own closed digital ecosystem.
Validation of the strongest kind: one of the largest port and logistics operators in the world chose to own the technology outright rather than build its own. It also had a consequence for everyone else.
@dpworld5 years ago
'26
The market loses access
The technology moves behind closed doors and stops being shared with the open market.
Independent forwarders and cargo owners were left with what the rest of the market offered: tracking that is late, partial, stitched together from grey sources, and impossible to build a business process on.
@closeddoors3 years ago
'26
Qubictron is founded
Not a rerun of SeaRates. A new architecture, built for the open market from the first line of code.
Twenty years of knowing exactly where logistics data breaks, multiplied by what is possible today: AI models, hybrid satellite monitoring, predictive ETA. Built API-first, so it drops into systems that already exist.
@qubictron1 year ago
'26
Qubics ship
Modular intelligence units, each built around a single task, designed to work together.
Tracking, analytics and integration as independent Qubics, each deployable on its own and each able to feed the others. The market gets the tooling back, and this time it stays open.
@teamtoday
Why Qubictron wins
Independence, and twenty years of knowing where data breaks
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Technology of our own
Nothing here is licensed or inherited. Twenty years of building freight software, rewritten from scratch on a new generation of AI, automation and predictive models.
Evolution, not a rerun
Nothing is copied forward. Qubictron is built from scratch on modern AI models, hybrid satellite monitoring and predictive ETA.
Full independence
We work for you, not for a port operator or a shipping line. Your data serves your business and nobody else's.
The market's blind spots
While large corporations close their ecosystems, Qubictron connects a fragmented industry into one transparent tracking layer.
Product line
Three Qubics, shipping now
Each unit does one job properly, and runs on its own or alongside the rest.
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Advanced Tracking
Advanced Tracking combines real-time AIS vessel data with AI-powered ETA and delay prediction at transshipment ports, giving you a clearer view of every shipment and potential disruption before it happens.
Smart Analytics brings all shipment performance into one dashboard, including booking numbers, average and actual transit times, delays, routes and carrier performance, so you can make decisions based on real operational data.
API & Integration connects Rates, Tracking, Stuffing, CO₂ Intelligence, Ship Schedules, Statistics and other logistics data directly to your Web Apps, ERP, RMS or CRM through one standardized API.
Qubictron builds Qubics, modular, API-first intelligence units for trade and logistics. Each one takes on a specific problem and plugs directly into the systems you already run.
Twenty years have changed logistics, technology, and the way digital platforms should be built. AI, real-time data, automation, and customer expectations have completely reshaped the market. Qubictron is not a rebuild of SeaRates. It is a rethink of what we learned over two decades, designed for how global trade works today and where it is going next.
Yes. Qubics are API-first and designed to deploy into any architecture without disrupting current operations, usually in minutes rather than months.
Both. Qubics can be delivered as subscription services or as custom-built solutions, depending on what your operation needs.
Request early access or book a demo. We look at your flows, show the Qubics that fit, and set up a pilot on your real data.