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Freightos Collaborates with Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters customers will now benefit from on-demand Freightos International Freight Index (FIFI) data on Eikon March 19, 2018, London – Global freight indexes provided by the online freight marketplace Freightos are now available on Thomson Reuters flagship...
A Brand New Freight Consumer
Recent Google research described a case study of a woman in the market for a new car, who explored 14 brands over the course of 3 months, through the prism of nearly 1,000 digital touchpoints. Once upon...
The Rise of the Small and Midsize Freight Customer
Amazon is frequently referenced as a force of logistics disruption. But it has also cultivated the growth of one of the most lucrative international freight target markets. Small and midsize businesses may not have been logistics providers’...
How Far Will Ocean Freight Rates Fall?: Freight Rate Update W9
Weekly update article on the Freightos International Freight Index exploring rate trends and their driving forces. Factory production and port activity have now returned to normal in China following the New Year (CNY) shutdown. With air freight...
Stable Prices In Advance Of CNY Shutdown: Freight Rate Update W6
Weekly update article on the Freightos International Freight Index exploring rate trends and their driving forces. The week-long Chinese New Year holiday shutdown starts this week. Rates though have stabilized rather than rising – an indication that...
Unsustainable Stability: The Data Behind International Freight in 2017
For international freight rates, 2016 was a year of freight instability. First the bottom dropped out of the spot market. The largest casualty of this, the Hanjin collapse, finally got prices rising again, rescuing peak season for...
Prices Set To Ramp Up For Chinese New Year: Freight Rate Update W2
Weekly update article on the Freightos International Freight Index exploring rate trends and their driving forces. 2018 started with China-US ocean freight prices increasing by 27% as supply chains came back into full swing. Following brief dips...
Supply Chains (And Freight Rates) Crank Up Again: Freight Rate Update W1
Weekly update article on the Freightos International Freight Index exploring rate trends and their driving forces. As supply chains crank back into action following the vacation, the January ocean freight GRI (General Rate Increase) stuck, with China-US...
The Digital Freight Ecosystem Part 2: What’s Bringing Freight Online
In the first part of this article, Dr. Schreiber observed that freight is still largely offline and examined why freight digitalization has been so complicated. However, despite formidable challenges, the logistics industry has been anything but...
The Digital Freight Ecosystem Part 1: It’s 2018 and Freight Is Still Mostly Offline
Two years ago, I predicted 2016 would be the year international freight moves online. I was right and wrong. 2016 was the year the seeds of change were planted. We had more conversations than I can recall with corporate...