The Freightos Blog

Is The Freight Industry Ready For SOLAS? Impending SOLAS legislation will make verification of the gross mass of packed containers a requirement by July 1st 2016, in effort to reduce incidents involving containers on ships. But Freightos research has...

Freightos named a 2016 Cool Vendor in Supply Chain Services by Gartner We try to keep this blog as informative as possible … but sometimes, we deserve to brag. We’re thrilled to be selected as...

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...

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...

How Freight Disrupted Itself In the last year, a new dynamic has begun to reshape the freight industry. Unlike some industries that are virtually attacked by external actors, like Uber disrupting the taxi industry, the catalysts...

Technology changes everything, including Christmas. Whether it’s agile sourcing of hoverboards or finding the perfect gift for the person who has everything, technology is fixing the problem for good. Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come...