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PeopleJan 18, 2026

Meet the dispatch team behind Link Freight's 99.8% on-time rate

A look inside the 24/7 control tower in Nairobi that keeps every container accounted for.

Ask anyone on our dispatch floor what the job actually involves, and the honest answer is: a lot of watching, and just enough intervening. The team runs a 24-hour rotation tracking every truck on the road, every border crossing in progress, and every shipment that's due to hand off to a client somewhere down the line.

The tools have changed faster than the job description. Industry-wide, nearly half of fleet managers are now using AI-assisted tools for route optimisation, predictive maintenance and dispatch decisions — and our control tower runs on that same shift, using live tracking data to flag a delay hours before it would otherwise show up as a missed handover.

But the technology is only half the story. The other half is a dispatcher who knows that a particular border crossing tends to back up on a Friday afternoon, or that a specific client needs a call the moment a shipment is running even thirty minutes behind — not an automated notification. That judgment is built over years, not coded into a dashboard.

It's that combination — real-time visibility plus people who've actually driven these routes or sat across the table from the clients on the other end — that keeps the on-time numbers where they are. Behind every container we move is someone making sure it's exactly where it's supposed to be.


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