The Freightos Blog

26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. One visionary, Malcom McLean, features prominently in the industry’s...

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Successful Cargo Space Delivery We’re huge fans of innovation in the logistics space. Which is why we’re taking our hats off to SpaceX for delivering 7,000 lbs of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) this week using a...

Want to know the future? In 2012, The Economist assessed the impact that technology developments will have had on business by 2020, surveying and interviewing global technology and business leaders. At the time, the predictions seemed unreal. But...

Here at Freightos, we’re big fans of making global logistics work better by bringing data online (and especially instant freight quotes!).  And, like many other logistics startups, we’re particularly enthusiastic about how Big Data can change the...

Freightos rate management tapped to improve online freight quoting, operational efficiency and data quality Osnabrueck, Germany –  Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, one of the world’s top logistics service providers, today announced that it is completing a global...

Five Key Takeaways From TPM 2016 For shippers, carriers and logistics providers, the JOC’s TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference) is one of the must-attends on the annual events calendar. I caught up with one of Freightos’ delegates after...

Freight In The Year Of The Monkey The world’s second-largest national economy has settled into the Year of the Fire Monkey, an ambitious but devious primate. China’s role in world trade is so large that...

Stop Looking At Flashy Logistics Technology In 2011, UPS trucks drove 20.4 million fewer miles in the United States than they did in 2010. The result? A 20,000 metric tons reduction in emissions. And it...