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Apollo for forwarders

Use Apollo for what it does well in freight sales.

Apollo is good at contact data, email sequences and calling, and it has a free plan with no time limit. It doesn’t show shipment records, so it can’t find the shippers on your lanes or show what changed. For freight sales, find the shipper and the reason in a shipment data tool such as Coreties, and keep Apollo for sequences or for selling outside freight.

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3 drafts

Subject Your new Charleston lane from Bremerhaven

Remstal started shipping from Bremerhaven to Charleston in May and has moved 43 TEU on the lane so far. Could we compare routings for the new lane next week?

A first message that opens with the shipper’s new lane and waits for the rep’s approval. The draft count is a sample. Illustrative data.

Short answer

Choose Coreties if

you sell freight on lanes to or from the Americas, South Asia or Southeast Asia and want each shipper with a reason to reach out, a verified contact and a drafted first message.

Choose Apollo if

you also sell outside freight, want a free plan, or your team already runs its outreach in Apollo sequences.

What it does well

Contacts, sequences and calling.

  • Contact data.

    A B2B database of contacts and accounts you search to build lists.

  • Sequences and a dialer.

    Email sequences and calling sit in one workspace. Email campaigns come on every plan.

  • A free plan.

    No time limit. Paid plans come with a free trial.

Step by step

The same sales work, alone and with Coreties.

Remstal Fahrzeugteile GmbH

Auto-parts exporter · near Stuttgart, Germany

BRV to CHS (Bremerhaven to Charleston)

TEU per month

TEU per month, October 2025 to September 2026
MonthAll lanesBremerhaven to Charleston
Oct 2025280
Nov 2025290
Dec 2025270
Jan 2026300
Feb 2026290
Mar 2026300
Apr 2026310
May 2026364
Jun 2026407
Jul 2026439
Aug 20264611
Sep 20264812

Recent records

ArrivalPort of Lading → Port of DischargeConsigneeTEU
Sep 2026BRV to CHS (Bremerhaven to Charleston)Buyer in South Carolina (sample)Buyer in SC (sample)2
Sep 2026BRV to CHS (Bremerhaven to Charleston)Buyer in Georgia (sample)Buyer in GA (sample)1
A sample shipper’s profile in Coreties, with its TEU over the last 12 months and its records. Illustrative data.
Each sales step in Coreties and in Apollo alone
Step
Coreties
Apollo alone
Find companies that ship on a lanePick a lane and get the importers and exporters shipping on it.Search its contact and account database. Which companies ship on your lanes isn’t in the data.
Check volume and recencyFilter by volume, cargo and how recently they shipped.Apollo doesn’t show shipment records, so volume and recency aren’t there.
See why to reach out nowSupply Chain Analysis shows what changed, with a source for each statement.Buying signals such as intent, job changes and website visits.
Find the right personA person at the office you pick, with an email Coreties confirmed as deliverable.Search its contact database.
Write the first messageDrafted from the analysis in your Writing Voice, for you to approve.Write it in a sequence, or have Apollo’s AI agents write the outreach.
Send and follow upFrom your own mailbox, with follow-ups and call tasks.Email sequences and a dialer. Free plans connect Gmail only.
Log itExcel export for your CRM. No CRM sync today.Integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, SalesLoft and others.
Find companies that ship on a lane
CoretiesPick a lane and get the importers and exporters shipping on it.
Apollo aloneSearch its contact and account database. Which companies ship on your lanes isn’t in the data.
Check volume and recency
CoretiesFilter by volume, cargo and how recently they shipped.
Apollo aloneApollo doesn’t show shipment records, so volume and recency aren’t there.
See why to reach out now
CoretiesSupply Chain Analysis shows what changed, with a source for each statement.
Apollo aloneBuying signals such as intent, job changes and website visits.
Find the right person
CoretiesA person at the office you pick, with an email Coreties confirmed as deliverable.
Apollo aloneSearch its contact database.
Write the first message
CoretiesDrafted from the analysis in your Writing Voice, for you to approve.
Apollo aloneWrite it in a sequence, or have Apollo’s AI agents write the outreach.
Send and follow up
CoretiesFrom your own mailbox, with follow-ups and call tasks.
Apollo aloneEmail sequences and a dialer. Free plans connect Gmail only.
Log it
CoretiesExcel export for your CRM. No CRM sync today.
Apollo aloneIntegrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, SalesLoft and others.

Details about other tools come from each company's own website. Updated .

See how Coreties goes from a lane to a first message →

Shipment records have limits too.

About half of US import records name the shipper.

What we see
In our US import bills of lading, the shipper’s name is filled in on 49% of records.
Why it matters
A tool built only on US bills of lading misses the foreign shipper on about half of US import records. Export records from the origin country, such as India or Vietnam, name the exporter at origin.
Source
Coreties US import bills of lading, field fill rates, last 12 months of data to June 2026. As of 4 October 2026.

Apollo plus ImportYeti

Two tools for one sales job.

Some forwarders pair ImportYeti’s US shipment records with Apollo’s contacts and sequences. The rep copies each company from one tool to the other, and lanes outside the US and Mexico aren’t there.

Where the rep switches tools

With ImportYeti + Apollo

  1. ImportYeti
    1. Find shippers
    2. Check volume and recency
    3. See why now
  2. Switch tool: Copy into Apollo
  3. Apollo
    1. Find the person
    2. Verify the email
    3. Write the message
    4. Send and log

2 tools, 1 switch

With Coreties

  1. Coreties
    1. Find shippers
    2. Check volume and recency
    3. See why now
    4. Find the person
    5. Verify the email
    6. Write the message
    7. Send and log

1 tool, no switch

ImportYeti + Apollo as a two-tool stack next to Coreties. The stack breaks where the rep copies each company into Apollo.

Keep the stack if you want ImportYeti’s free US lookups or its US air and land data, or if you also sell outside freight.

Questions

Questions about Apollo for freight sales.

For contacts and email sequences, yes, and it has a free plan. It doesn’t show shipment records, so it can’t find the shippers on a lane or tell you why to reach out now. It fits if you also sell outside freight or already run your outreach in Apollo. For freight sales on your lanes, Coreties covers the shipper, the reason, the contact and the first message.

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