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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...
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...
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...
Air Cargo Technology Is Falling Behind. It Doesn’t Have to.
This article first appeared in The Loadstar on June 8th, 2018 “Digital is an attitude…that has to do with serving our customers better. We need to be extremely agile or someone else is going...
A Logistics Technology Reality Check
I’m an enthusiastic promoter of digitization across carriers, forwarders, and shippers. And, in the last year or so, it has been gratifying to, at last, see many players rolling out digital platforms. But has the...