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Freightos has publicly listed today as Nasdaq:CRGO
As of this morning, Freightos is a public company trading on Nasdaq with the ticker CRGO, taking the next step in our journey to make global trade more efficient with the world’s global freight booking...
Freight Cost Volatility Impacts on Inflation – An Analysis
The global economy has gone through an incredibly tumultuous time since 2020. From lockdown-induced purchasing highs, soaring logistics costs and supply chain snarls to waning demand, soaring inflation, and fears of recession – there has...
COVID’s Supply Chain Ripples: the SME Business Perspective
Since early 2020, global trade has been buffeted by waves of increased customer demand, supply chain challenges, and constant uncertainty and volatility. This article provides an overview, based on a survey of over 1,200 small...
Back to Logistics Tech School, 2022: the Lost Peak Season, the lingering COVID impact and more
Logistics tech in 2022 has been unavoidably shaped by the two years that preceded it. The low rates that triggered Hanjin’s bankruptcy in 2017 quickly became a thing of the past, as surging demand, congestion,...
Freightos is going public…and how we got here
Today we’re excited to announce that (drumroll…) Freightos is going public! The official announcement is here.
Containerized shipping joins modern financial world with CME futures
In the late 1970s, McDonalds set out to launch Chicken McNuggets. But they ran into a pricing challenge; consumers hate price changes (at least, price increases) and like most commodities, the cost of chicken changes....
High freight costs for importers means higher price tags for consumers
A Freightos survey of 300+ companies sheds light on how importers have been navigating supply chain disruptions. What’s changed in a year? You might not think about shipping containers and ocean freight when you click...
The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment
It’s rare for ocean liners like Maersk to live in the same category as tech giants like Amazon or Alibaba. But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a...
The Shipping Container Impact on Inflation
If you were building a house in 2021, things got rough. The cost of lumber skyrocketed from $354 / 1000 board feet in May 2020 up to $1,683 in May 20211. And even if you...
What’s going on with global supply chains: A primer for the casual consumer
(AKA why that couch you ordered isn’t here…and isn’t getting here tomorrow) Disclaimer: This article is a zoom out for the less freight-inclined. If you have a deeper understanding of freight, you might want...