FREIGHTOS IN THE NEWS
2019 In the News
Freightos makes air cargo e-booking free to all forwarders
Popular trade publication Lloyd’s Loading List covers WebCargo by Freightos’ latest product launch WebCargo Sky. Sky provides forwarders with live access to air cargo rates across a huge number of airlines. With select airlines, like Air France, KLM, British Airways, Lufthansa, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and others, Sky also offers live insights into available capacity and live booking.
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IAG to offer electronic booking through Freightos
Air Cargo News covers IAG Cargo’s partnership with Freightos to introduce instant quoting, dynamic pricing and eBooking. IAG Cargo is the third major air carrier to partner with Freightos to ramp up its digitization. Lufthansa and Air France KLM have also announced partnerships.
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Trade Tensions Worry Ship Operators
Iconic international daily The Wall Street Journal cites Freightos’ international freight index (FBX) to frame how the U.S.-China tariff saga is impacting the container shipping industry.
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The case for regulating Amazon logistics
Freightos CEO and founder, Zvi Schreiber, warns of the dangers of Amazon leveraging their monopoly in e-commerce to gain an unfair advantage in logistics in this opinion editorial featured in top logistics publication The Journal of Commerce.
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As air freight carriers move to online pricing, forwarders call for comparison sites
Referencing a Freightos announcement with Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo, The Loadstar explores how dynamic pricing information and eBooking is changing the industry.
VIEW ARTICLEDigitisation finally taking off as air cargo carriers develop online distribution
The Loadstar covers Freightos news of Air France-KLM Cargo signed up to offer rates, capacity information and booking capability via WebCargo by Freightos to more than 14,000 forwarders. And in a first for the industry, dynamic pricing information.
VIEW ARTICLEFreightos WebCargo acquires Air Freight Bazaar India
Air Cargo News covers WebCargo by Freightos’ acquisition of Indian air cargo rates and sales platform Air Freight Bazaar, bringing even more efficiency to India’s air cargo market with dynamic pricing and eBooking.
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These are the digital freight start-ups disrupting the global logistics industry
Yahoo Finance, the largest business and financial news site in the world, covers Freightos as a top five digital freight startup to watch.
VIEW ARTICLEIndex-linked contracts open the door for container freight derivatives
Lloyd’s List, one of the oldest running shipping journals, speaks to Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber about why carriers and shippers should be using index-linked contracts to reduce volatility and avoid contract breaches.
VIEW ARTICLEIs logistics finally ready for APIs?
Top trade publication The Journal of Commerce cites Freightos’ research regarding adoption of application programming interfaces (APIs) in shipping.
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Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd digital leaders among ocean carriers: survey
Covering a Freightos benchmark survey of digital maturity for the world’s top 30 air/ocean carriers, Supply Chain Dive publishes key highlights including: which carriers are leading the way, what sets the top performers apart, and the competitive edge smaller carriers have in the race to get online.
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Amazon pushing hard into ocean shipping, making it easier for Chinese goods to get to you
USA Today consults Freightos expert regarding Amazon’s moves to ramp up its ocean shipping services and, along the way, help Chinese manufacturers reach US households at scale.
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CMA CGM joins instant quote effort via Freightos platform
Top trade publication The Journal of Commerce gives broader industry context to the importance of the world’s fourth largest ocean carrier, CMA CGM, selling direct to shippers of all sizes via freightos.com.
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Digital Marketplace Freightos Gains $45 Million in New Funding Round
The Wall Street Journal, no introduction needed, covers Freightos series c $45 million funding round and includes insight from Freightos CEO and founder Zvi Schreiber on how this positively impacts the logistics industry.
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125+ Startups Disrupting The Logistics Industry
CB Insights, a leading tech analyst firm, showcases Freightos as a leader in the logistics tech space, with a specific focus on Freightos’ role creating the world’s largest online freight marketplace, while automating comparison, booking, and shipment management.
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Freightos launches global index with Baltic Exchange
Working together with the Baltic Exchange, one of the oldest maritime consulting companies in the world, Freightos has launched the first real-time global freight index – the FBX – together with 12 regional indexes. Eventually, these will be used to power financial instruments.
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Global logistics business is going to be transformed by digitisation
Across the board, startups, carriers and forwarders are embracing automation to improve processes. Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber talks to The Economist about how this will impact imports and exporters.
VIEW ARTICLEThe 2018 Mystery Shopping Survey
Freightos’ annual research on the how well the top twenty global forwarders sell online reveal major changes, with new top-tier players now selling online. Check out the article below or see the full report here.
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Freight-Alt-Delete
February, 2017: Zvi Schreiber, in series interviewing industry leaders on how digitalization is transforming shipping. “(Logistics players) that adapt technology to work better will continue to differentiate with outstanding supply chain service and incredible support … Technology isn’t the enemy; it’s a lifeboat. And the alternative for providers is ctrl-alt-delete.”
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Freightos launches ‘FIFI’ aggregated shipping rates index
February, 2017: “Online freight marketplace Freightos has launched its Freightos International Freight Index (FIFI) … FIFI aggregates live freight rates from “hundreds of carriers, forwarders, and shippers,” which Freightos is offering, free of charge, to promote, “data-informed decision-making.”
International trade practices “archaic”, says Freightos survey
Covering a Freightos survey of US importers and exporters, AirCargoNews shows how small and midsize businesses are paying a heavy price – in time and money – because of current global freight processes.
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Ocean Carrier Trends: Will global shipping alliances restore stability?
Logistics Management dives into Freightos’ annual global freight data report, sharing key trends in global ocean rates, capacity and modal shift. Plus, there are fancy charts.
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Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos both agree this industry shows the biggest potential
In an article published in InternetRetailer’s DigitalCommerce360, Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber shares thoughts on how Alibaba and Amazon are converging on comprehensive logistics technology overhaul.
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Salmon fly commercial and airlines reap rewards of air cargo growth
In just one example of many, Freightos Baltic Index is leveraged to provide insight into freight market trends. In this case, CNBC uses Freightos’ multimodal capabilities to showcase how air capacity strains, combined with e-commerce trends, are straining importer budgets.
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Shipping to data: The case of Amazon Prime Day
In this Freightos feature, ZDnet explores the growing importance of freight data…and how Freightos is playing a pivotal role in bringing the industry online. This one made us blush.
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Freightos Is Poised to Transform the Trillion-Dollar Freight Industry
Inc. dives into the genesis story of Freightos, tracking founder Zvi Schreiber’s personal (and frustrating) experience…and how that evolved into the Freightos of today.
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Logistics startup Freightos lands $25 million in funding from GE Ventures
Techcrunch’s take on Freightos’ $25 million Series B round, led by General Electric, to scale the “booking.com, but for international shipping,” into more countries.
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18 Tech Predictions for 2017
December, 2016: “Freight will cost less as small business supply chains get big business capabilities. As LogTech brings the logistics industry online … data is getting more transparent. Real-time access to information is a game-changer, enabling the smallest companies to easily source globally, just like multi-nationals.”
2016 In the News
This $1 Trillion Industry Is Finally Going Digital
The MIT Technology Review takes a look at how Freightos is changing the world, beginning with how aggregating global logistics data can drive change.
VIEW ARTICLEWhy logistics startups are a hot investment
Logistics technology is sky-rocketing to prominence across the VC sector. Writing for Supply Chain Dive, Dinah Wisenberg Brin explains why.
VIEW ARTICLEFreightos Buys Air-Cargo Rival to Boost Online Marketplace
The Wall Street Journal’s excellent logistics section covers Freightos’ acquisition of Freightos WebCargo, creating the world’s largest digital database of global multimodal freight rates.
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Bringing International Freight Online
Live on BBC World News, Freightos CEO Zvi Schreiber shares why global freight is so important…and how much better it can get.
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