Services · Mobile app development · Logistics apps
Codeeo delivers logistics app development in Dubai for freight forwarders, transport operators and trading companies that move goods by sea, air and road. We build shipment tracking portals for your customers, driver and fleet apps for your trucks, document workflows for customs paperwork and a control tower dashboard for your operations team. Every container, pallet and truck has one record, from booking at origin to proof of delivery, instead of a trail of emails, spreadsheets and phone calls.
Dubai's logistics trade runs through Jebel Ali Port, JAFZA, Dubai South and the land routes into Saudi Arabia and Oman. The companies that win contracts are the ones whose customers can see where their cargo is without asking, and whose teams spend their day solving exceptions rather than retyping updates.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the platform covers
A typical Dubai forwarder juggles bookings with shipping lines and airlines, container status from the terminal, declarations through Dubai Customs, trucks moving between the port, free zone warehouses and customer sites, and clients asking for updates on all of it. The information exists, but it sits in different systems and inboxes.
We build around a single shipment record. Each booking collects its milestones, documents, costs, truck movements and messages as it moves. Customers see a clean tracking view; your team sees the operational detail behind it. Where carriers, terminals or government portals offer a data feed, we connect to it; where they do not, the app makes manual updates quick and consistent. We map those sources in discovery, because they decide how much tracking can be automatic on day one.
Dubai's role as a re-export hub adds its own complications: goods move from the port into JAFZA, change ownership, and leave again by sea, air or truck. The platform links inbound and outbound legs so a re-export shipment keeps its full history.
Customers log in to see every shipment with its current milestone: booked, picked up, at origin port, on board, arrived Jebel Ali, cleared, out for delivery, delivered. Estimated arrival dates update as carriers report changes, and customers can subscribe to alerts for the milestones they care about.
Fewer where is my cargo emails reaching your team.
Customers request rates for FCL, LCL, air or road with origin, destination, commodity and dimensions. Your pricing team responds inside the platform, and an accepted quote becomes a booking with all the details already filled in.
Quotes turn into bookings faster and with fewer errors.
Commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, airway bills and certificates of origin are uploaded, checked against a list per shipment type and shared with your clearing team. Declaration references from Mirsal, submitted through Dubai Trade, are recorded against the shipment along with their status.
Clearance starts with complete paperwork, not a chase.
Live truck positions from GPS units, trip history, idle time, fuel records and maintenance schedules. Registration, insurance and permit expiry dates trigger reminders, and the dashboard shows which trucks are free for the next port pickup.
More loads per truck and no surprise expiries.
Drivers receive trip details, container numbers, gate pass references and delivery addresses. They record pickup, seal numbers, waiting time and delivery with photos and a signature, and report delays or incidents straight from the cab.
Proof of delivery arrives the moment the job is done.
Container status, vessel arrival and gate events are pulled from carrier or terminal sources where your accounts allow it. Free time and demurrage clocks are tracked per container, with alerts before charges start building up.
Containers are collected before they cost you money.
Trips to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the wider GCC carry their own transit documents and border checkpoints. The app records each crossing, waiting time at the border and documents required per destination, so customers see real progress on long road moves.
Road shipments are as visible as sea and air.
Costs from carriers, hauliers, clearing and storage are attached to each shipment as they arrive, alongside the revenue billed. The finance team sees margin per job before invoicing, and invoices with VAT go out from the same record.
Loss making shipments are spotted while they can still be fixed.
Operations managers see every live shipment by mode, customer and exception: delayed vessels, missing documents, held declarations, trucks running late. Filters and saved views let each team focus on what needs action today.
Problems are spotted hours earlier.
Role based access for customers, overseas agents, subcontracted hauliers and your own staff. Agents abroad update origin milestones directly, and hauliers see only the jobs assigned to them, so the portal becomes the one place everyone works from.
Partners update the record themselves instead of emailing you.
Who we build for
Logistics companies in Dubai range from small forwarders with a JAFZA office and a handful of agents abroad to transport groups running hundreds of trucks between Jebel Ali, Dubai South and the GCC. The right software depends on what you control directly and what you coordinate through others. A forwarder needs visibility over shipments moved by carriers; a haulier needs control over its own fleet. Many firms do both, so we design the platform to grow in either direction.
Parcel delivery and warehouse management are separate disciplines with their own tools. This page is about freight: containers, pallets, trucks and the paperwork that clears them.
Your customers import goods through Jebel Ali and want to know when cargo will arrive, when it clears and when it reaches their warehouse. We build a tracking portal with milestone alerts, a document workflow for customs paperwork and quote requests that convert to bookings. Overseas agents get access to update origin events directly, which removes a large share of the email traffic your team handles daily.
Visibility is often what wins the next contract.
You run trucks between the port, free zones, industrial areas and customer sites. Fleet tracking, driver apps, trip planning, maintenance and permit reminders matter most. We connect GPS devices you already own where possible, digitise proof of delivery, and give customers a link to follow their consignment without logging in to anything. Driver hours, rest breaks and trip sheets are recorded so dispatchers plan the next day with real data.
You import and re-export goods and manage forwarders, clearing agents and trucks yourself. You need one view of all inbound and outbound shipments across suppliers and service providers, with landed cost per shipment. We build an internal platform rather than a customer portal, and connect it to your ERP so stock and finance teams see goods in transit. Supplier delays then show up in purchasing reports before they become stock shortages.
Your work starts when documents arrive and ends when the declaration is cleared and goods released. The platform collects documents from clients, checks them against requirements, tracks declaration status and holds, and bills each job. Clients see exactly which document is missing instead of phoning your office to ask why their goods have not moved.
Complete documents first time is the whole game.
Engagement options
Smaller forwarders often begin with a fixed scope first release, such as a tracking portal and document workflow, then grow it on a retainer. Hauliers and larger groups with several integrations usually take a dedicated team, because carrier feeds and telematics need ongoing attention. As logistics mobile app developers in Dubai, our team can sit with your operations staff in person, supported by colleagues in Riyadh and Karachi across a team of 80+ people.
Whichever model you choose, you work with a named lead, a written scope and regular demos on real shipments, so the operations team shapes the product as it is built.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Native or cross platform driver apps, a web portal and dashboard, and a backend built for integrations. We use documented APIs and EDI where carriers and partners provide them, scheduled imports where they do not, and agree hosting and data location with you during discovery.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends mostly on the number of integrations.
A tracking portal with manual milestone updates and a document workflow is a modest first release. Every automated feed, such as carrier tracking, terminal events, telematics or ERP, adds work and depends on how quickly partners grant access. We write down the first release and its dates after discovery, and we often launch with the most valuable integrations first and add the rest in later releases. Clean master data for customers, ports, carriers and charge codes speeds everything up, so we often start tidying it while design is under way.
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