The Freightos Group Blog

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...

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...

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...

Here at Freightos, we’re big fans of making global logistics work better by bringing data online (and especially instant freight quotes!).  And, like many other logistics startups, we’re particularly enthusiastic about how Big Data can change the...

The Wright Brothers were the startup entrepreneurs of 1900. They were born tinkerers, taking skills from a printing shop to open a bike repair shop. After reading about aeronautics in the late 1890s, the two began experimenting with biplane...

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. – James Joyce Innovators see the world differently. And innovation, technology and logistics...

How much do we love freight innovation? Enough to go through every single article published in the top tech blogs –  Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable and Recode –  since 2007 to count how often articles about logistics startups, freight or cargo were...

Imagine you’re at the supermarket .. but checkout is taking hours. To price every item, the cashier looks at a gigantic Excel spreadsheet. When it’s not there, the cashier calls the head office to get the price. Satisfied?...

Logistics makes the world go around. But if you work in the supply chain industry, chances are that your friends start yawning when you say what you do. So you tell them the story of how clothing gets...