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The Logistics Technology Update for Q2 2019
This quarterly report is compiled by the Freightos research team and can be downloaded in PDF format here. If you have any questions or submissions to make, please contact us below. Logistics Technology in Q2...
Eight Key Takeaways From FreighTech 2018:TLV
This week, Freightos hosted over forty logistics and innovation executives for FreighTech 2018, a symposium dedicated to discussing challenges and opportunities in the industry. The catalyst was fairly simple – there are freight conferences and...
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...
Freightos Collaborates with Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters customers will now benefit from on-demand Freightos International Freight Index (FIFI) data on Eikon March 19, 2018, London – Global freight indexes provided by the online freight marketplace Freightos are now available on Thomson Reuters flagship...
A Brand New Freight Consumer
Recent Google research described a case study of a woman in the market for a new car, who explored 14 brands over the course of 3 months, through the prism of nearly 1,000 digital touchpoints. Once upon...
The Rise of the Small and Midsize Freight Customer
Amazon is frequently referenced as a force of logistics disruption. But it has also cultivated the growth of one of the most lucrative international freight target markets. Small and midsize businesses may not have been logistics providers’...
Unsustainable Stability: The Data Behind International Freight in 2017
For international freight rates, 2016 was a year of freight instability. First the bottom dropped out of the spot market. The largest casualty of this, the Hanjin collapse, finally got prices rising again, rescuing peak season for...
The Digital Freight Ecosystem Part 2: What’s Bringing Freight Online
In the first part of this article, Dr. Schreiber observed that freight is still largely offline and examined why freight digitalization has been so complicated. However, despite formidable challenges, the logistics industry has been anything but...
The Digital Freight Ecosystem Part 1: It’s 2018 and Freight Is Still Mostly Offline
Two years ago, I predicted 2016 would be the year international freight moves online. I was right and wrong. 2016 was the year the seeds of change were planted. We had more conversations than I can recall with corporate...
Carbon Emissions in Logistics: The Road To Green International Freight
Two years ago this month, at COP21, the world committed to capping the global rise in temperature (the Paris Agreement). This became a hot topic recently when President Trump announced he was pulling the US out....