Live on — South Africa ↔ MozambiqueLive on — South Africa ↔ Mozambique · Lebombo / Ressano Garcia · More to come
envoy.ship — cross-border freight, simplified
The trading intelligence platform that moves with you.
Cross-border freight intelligence for SME traders
Currently for the Lebombo–Ressano Garcia corridor.
Why we're here
Cross-border trade should feel like one seamless network.
Cross-border trade already works — through years of interactions, experience and trust. We're building the layer that ties those networks into one, without asking anyone to change how they already work.
Trader-first
Built for the people doing the moving — WhatsApp-native, no app to install, in the language you trade in.
Corridor-native
We start with one border and learn it deeply before adding another. One thing, well — then the next.
Single thread
One WhatsApp conversation per shipment. Traders, carriers and our agent on the same page — so nothing lives only through experience.
By the numbers
What the corridors cost today.
5.5h
Average truck dwell at a single Southern African border post
1 in 4
Declarations that arrive at the border without pre-clearance
$300+
Per day a truck loses sitting at the border when paperwork triggers delays
Sources: WCO-supported Time Release Studies, 2024–2025 · Southern African transporter and container detention rates, 2015–2025
How it works
From first message to last mile.
Three steps. No new tools to learn. The platform that moves with you, in the channel you already use every day.
01
Message us on WhatsApp
Send us a WhatsApp message — what you're moving, where it's going and when. Drop in a photo of the invoice or bill of lading. We read it, flag what's missing and come back with options.
02
We match a verified carrier
We match you with a carrier we've already vetted — licence, insurance, recent corridor history. You get a name and a price before you commit.
03
Stay in the same thread
Updates from the driver come to you. Customs questions go back the same way. If something's about to go wrong, we'll flag it before the truck stops.
What we noticed
The corridor is dependent on an exclusive network of relationships.
Networks, not platforms
Traders rely on the carriers, fixers and friends they already trust. That works — until your usual person isn't available, or you're shipping a route you haven't run before.
Experiential knowledge
Unforeseen changes on the route, customs preferences, who's reliable on which border — most of it lives in a few people's experience. Every new trader rebuilds it from scratch.
Documents catch you out
A missing certificate or a wrong line on an invoice can hold a truck for days. Most of the time, the first you hear about it is when the driver calls.
What's next
Starting on one corridor. Building towards all of them.
envoy.ship is being tested on a single corridor right now — South Africa to Mozambique. Once we've earned it, we take the same approach to the next corridor, then the next region, adapting to what each one actually needs.
Testing here
Lebombo to Ressano Garcia is our live test corridor. We have reached out to traders, carriers and stakeholders, to understand the situation end-to-end before adding another.
Then the SADC region
Beitbridge, Kasumbalesa, Chirundu — the same playbook applied corridor by corridor across southern Africa. We earn each one before moving on.
Then the rest
Every corridor has its own restrictions — different rules, different relationships, different paperwork. We're building towards a platform that learns each one on its own terms. Not a one-size-fits-all solution.
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