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This year alone, Maersk has accelerated its direct-to-shipper strategy, digital forwarders have raised massive rounds (like Flexport’s billion-dollar injection), and platforms for forwarders and carriers – big and small – have continued to pop up...

Over the past 15 years Amazon has paved the way for SMBs to grow, frequently at the expense of other Big Box retailers, like Toys R’ Us, Sears, and A&F, that saw a ten year...

This quarterly report is compiled by the Freightos research team and can be downloaded in PDF format here. If you have any questions or submissions to make, please contact us below. Logistics Technology in Q2...

Some airlines still fly planes built in the 1970s. Even back then, planes were built to last. What is alarming, though, they still use pre-Walkman era 1970s technology to connect with customers. And that explains...

We’re not ready for it. Said nearly every airline executives I’d speak to about instant eBooking. In twelve years of meetings, air cargo leaders have always been enthusiastic about pricing automation. Faster quoting meant more...

Updated: October 29, 2019 Most tariff change announcements since this article was first published have been at short notice. Take President Trump’s August 1 announcement of a 10% tariff starting September 1, at that time...

A version of this article originally appeared on JOC.com.  A few days ago, Amazon announced one day delivery plans. In itself, that’s a big deal, but its significance is compounded when you consider the trucking shipment volumes...

Remember iPods? Not that long ago, they were the only way people listened to music, peaking at 23 million units sold in Q1 2009. Six years later, that number had dropped to zero. The one-two punch...

  Old forecasts are like old news – soon forgotten – and pundits are almost never asked to reconcile what they said with what actually happened. Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner   In...