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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 Digital Age Is The New Competitive Arena For 3PLs
This contributed article by Erik Hofmann, Chair of Logistics Management, University of St.Gallen and Florin Osterwalder, Lampe & Schwartze Marine Underwriting, Bremen is based on their recently published research paper. 3PLs provide a wide range...
Will Logistics Technology Take My Job?
Who hasn’t asked themselves whether technology is threatening their job? Of course, logistics is far from immune. A White House report from 2016 estimated that 80%-100% of long-haul trucking jobs may be threatened by artificial intelligence. It’s...
What If Your Supply Chain Had A Control Tower?
Do you know how many planes take off or land each year in the world’s busiest airport? A little under 900,000. That’s at Atlanta, by the way. There are high stakes in getting it right: starting with...
Technology and Culture: The Cultural Obstacles to Better Logistics
When Apple released its pocket-sized personal computer, promising unprecedented connectivity, the industry got excited. Five years later, production of the failed Newton PDA was canned. Fifteen years later, when Steve Jobs launched the iPhone, the...
Six Freight “Facts” That Are Wrong
Sometimes what is taken as a fact doesn’t hold up to closer scrutiny. And the freight industry is no exception. This post looks at six freight “facts”, and what makes them more fiction than fact....
5 Tips For Keeping Your Freight Safe
Freightos CEO, Zvi Schreiber, recently dubbed 2016 as the “year that the freight industry goes online.” Some freight services, like rate quoting, have now reached the tipping point. On Freightos, for instance, forwarders and shippers can create...
Successful Cargo Space Delivery
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...
Ready For The Future Of Freight?
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 JOC’s TPM 2016
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...