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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....
Startups, Logistics, and Evolving Product/Market Fit
Earlier this week, on-demand startup Shyp closed its doors after raising some $60 million in funding. While last-mile on-demand tech wave is booming, the underlying unit economics didn’t pan out, according to CEO Kevin Gibon’s post-mortem....
The Tesla Semi Truck Will Change Freight Industry
Freight innovation frequently focuses on moving data better – like visibility, eBookings, and the new generation of forwarders and brokers. But changing infrastructure is no less critical. Which is why one of technology’s most respected...
How Five Digital Experts at Top Logistics Providers Are Preparing For The Future
I’ve been writing about freight digitization for years. For much of that time, a debate raged about whether the freight industry was actually embracing digitization or if it was all just hype. Last week, I...
Lessons from CMA CGM, Maersk and K+N on Transparency and Digitalization
A version of this article appeared in the Journal of Commerce on March 4th, 2017 “You cannot afford in this day and age not to go digital…digital will become the name of the game”. That...
Behind the $5 billion dollars in logistics technology investments
Today Freightos announced a $25 million dollar funding round, led by GE Ventures. In the five years since Freightos launched, logistics and technology have increasingly converged. At JOC’s TPM in Long Beach last month, no less than...
Uber Freight: Another “Uber-for-Trucking”?
“Sometimes you’ll be out on the highway, you see two giant trucks loaded up with logs, and they pass each other on the highway… I don’t understand that. I mean, if they need logs over...
How Shipping Overcapacity Could Be Maersk’s Salvation
These two graphs explain why Maersk is splitting its shipping business, which is reeling from overcapacity; from its energy business, which is reeling from low oil prices: As Tolstoy observed, “each unhappy family is unhappy...
Five Technology Trends That Will Change Global Freight
A whopping $13.92 billion dollars of US venture capital was invested in the first quarter of 2016. And with daily headlines on new Ubers for X, new tech acquisitions, and the continuing crawl of technology into our everyday life, we’re focussing on five emerging tech...
The History of the Shipping Container
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...