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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...
Why Amazon Prime Day Is More Important than Ever for Small Businesses
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...
Ocean Freight Procurement and Going with the Stream
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...
Freight Visibility and Control: Introducing the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX)
When someone asks about the weather, the temperature is an easy response. But answering other questions isn’t always that easy. Even common questions, like the state of the stock market, didn’t always have straight-forward responses....
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...
Transparency and Overcapacity: Where Freight is Going in 2017
What happened in 2016 For decades, international freight’s mantra was a simple bigger is better. Strong economic growth obfuscated the underlying truth that something wasn’t working right. Last year, that something became increasingly clear. Sluggish global...
Getting Smart With Logistics Big Data
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...
Largest Freight Planes, Trains, Ships and Trucks Ever
One of the primary drivers of the global supply chain is intermodal traffic. Over 52 million tons of freight are moved in the United States every day. Between 2004 and 2013, the number of domestic containers in...
The Best Logistics and Supply Chain Blogs, 2013
The copious amounts of knowledge on the internet (over 100 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute) means that someone needs to sift through a whole lot of haystacks in order to find the...