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Digital Freight in 2019: The Next Chapter
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...
China’s Largest Port Partners with Freightos to Scale Digitization
Based on the news, US-China trade war mania has cooled, at least for now. And a temporary state of normality is settling in, with a finite deadline – the trade tariff hiatus agreed to between...
The State of Digital Freight: The 4×4 Blueprint for Freight 2020
As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to look back at how far we’ve come as an industry, set our next goalposts, and map out where we should be as an industry...
Carriers Join the Digital Fray (And Why It’s Good For Almost Everyone)
Sometimes change happens gradually, with scattered milestones that only stand out when observed in retrospect. But sometimes, we encounter a milestone so significant, it stands out immediately. And today, I’m excited to share one of...
LCL In A New Light: Insights from DHL’s Sanjay Tejwani
For many shippers, air freight wins out on speed and convenience and FCL (full container load) seems a better deal on cost. But, that often means LCL is overlooked as a mode when it would...
Eight Key Takeaways From FreighTech 2018:TLV
This week, Freightos hosted over forty logistics and innovation executives for FreighTech 2018, a symposium dedicated to discussing challenges and opportunities in the industry. The catalyst was fairly simple – there are freight conferences and...
The Freightos Series C: A marriage of logistics and financial services
Seven years ago, towards the end of 2011, I started to toss around the idea of an online freight marketplace, digitally connecting freight forwarders, carriers, and importers/exporters around the world. Why couldn’t international shipping be...
The First Steps of Necessary Federal Maritime Commission Changes
This article originally appeared on JOC.com. Long before there were trucks, trains, and planes, there were ships. Ships transformed travel and warfare, enabling humans to see beyond their villages and into the world. Most importantly,...
The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play
In his 2017 annual shareholder letter, Bezos lauded “divinely discontent” customers as innovation drivers. This is how he described their impact (emphasis added): “It may be because customers have such easy access to more information...
Welcoming Lufthansa to More Connected Freight
The year was 1976. Apple Computer had just been established, the Concorde made its first commercial flight, and Star Wars began filming. And, while not as fun, something big was happening at travel agencies. American...