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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...
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...