Founders' note

The story behind Navo24

Navo24 was never meant to be another sprawling logistics portal. We build always-on infrastructure for logistics providers and cargo owners whose operations demand precision round the clock.

Alexei Shatunov Stefan Rogovskiy
Alexei Shatunov & Stefan Rogovskiy Co-founders · 4 min read
01

Fifteen years in, we stopped patching

Fifteen years of building logistics systems teaches you where the joints are. Freight search, container tracking, load planning, for 2.6 million users worldwide and more than 8,000 logistics companies, and we watched every one of those systems age in the same way.

The old shape has run out of road. Portals that ask you to log in and then tell you nothing. Status that reaches you by email, a day after it mattered. Data sitting in a dashboard when the work happens in your own systems, and now in the agents those systems are starting to run. Nothing breaks loudly. It just takes the day, an hour at a time.

In April 2026 we stopped patching it. The same people, the same fifteen years, a clean sheet: freight data that arrives where the work already is, priced as it will be charged, and ready for whatever asks for it next. That was the less sensible option. We took it anyway.

Users worldwide 2.6M built at SeaRates
Growth in one year 500% under our leadership
In freight tech 15 yrs building logistics systems
The first month
1,000,000+ requests, and counting

The frustration with teaser rates and blind spots is not ours alone: the whole industry lives with it. We are the team that spent over a decade building SeaRates.com, and Navo24 is what we are building now, independently and from scratch. Your platform, shaped by your operational needs.

02

What's broken, and what we built

Working alongside millions of logistics professionals exposed a long list of daily friction. Every freight manager fights the same battles. Where is the container right now? Which vessel is actually sailing? And our favourite: what is the real freight rate, rather than the $847 teaser that turns into $1,643 the moment you try to book it?

Anatomy of a teaser rate One 40HC, illustrative
Quoted rate$847
Terminal handling, origin+ $320
Documentation and port security+ $180
Peak season and bunker surcharge+ $296
Price at booking +94% $1,643

We decided against one monolithic platform trying to do 147 things reasonably well. Modern shipping needs focused tools, each solving one operational bottleneck with real accuracy. That focus shaped the suite:

AI changes what software can do. Technology should remove repetitive toil and give people time to build, innovate and live fully. Logistics doesn't need heavier dashboards: it needs an active layer that works 24/7 without fatigue, delays or human error.

03

Our principles

Three rules we don't bend.

Your data stays yours

We never sell client data. Your cargo flows, routing habits, customer identities and freight rates are yours alone.

Fixes ship the same day

Engineers read support directly, so a 2 AM message about a wrong vessel ID reaches the person who can fix it.

Useful tools, not loud promises

The highest praise we get isn’t “disruptive”. It’s a tester asking: “Wait, you fixed it already?”

The founders

Alexei Shatunov

Alexei Shatunov

Co-founder · former General Manager, SeaRates
Architect of the SeaRates freight forwarder community, commercial strategy and carrier network scaling.
Stefan Rogovskiy

Stefan Rogovskiy

Co-founder · former COO, SeaRates
Ran global operations at SeaRates: freight aggregation and enterprise integrations across 100+ countries.

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