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What Can Freight Forwarding Learn from Airbnb? – A guest post from Container xChange

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Of course, you wouldn’t because it would be hard to trust the results or advice from strangers. While people find it easy to book things like accommodations online, container owners and freight forwarders or shippers looking for available Shipper Owned Containers (SOCs) often still struggle to connect with trusted partners.

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

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Amazon is at the nexus of ecommerce, data, and logistics, with a drive to constantly improve their logistics network. That’s 258 operational facilities in the US and another 486 distributed around the world (see map below, data from MWPVL ). And the career data below spells out a strong ocean slant. Amazon Fulfillment.

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The Great Maersk Shift

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In this essay, we’ll explore Maersk’s shift, the unique asset-heavy carrier advantages that encouraged this decision, and individual products developed over the past four years to realize the vision, across their core ocean services, freight forwarding, and value added services. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping.

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Welcoming Shipsta to Freightos

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Crossing one million bookings annually in 2023, we’ve made significant headway in digitizing spot freight pricing and bookings, especially in air cargo. But, as we hear from our freight forwarder and shipper customers again and again, spot bookings aren’t everything. That’s exactly where Shipsta comes in.

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Doing Our Part To Help Logistics Companies Adapt to COVID-19

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Land travel restrictions in Asia extended Chinese New Year, dropping ocean freight demand, which, just weeks later, spiked when the shutdown ended. And, of course, then the potential recession started to tamper demand. With WebCargo Sky, forwarders can instantly price air freight shipments from nearly every global airline.

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This Freight Calculator Brought To You By Transparency

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It would take days to compare multiple providers and, of course, there was no market index or transparent data to guide us. But when we eventually got a bill, it often didn’t match the price quote – freight forwarders do like to throw in an extra surcharge at the end. Freight and (In)Efficient Markets.

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Announcing the Freightos International Freight Index

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By Noam Fraenkel, VP Data and Analytics, Freightos. Today, Freightos is giving away statistical analysis of some 300 million international freight market data points, launching the Freightos International Freight Index (FIFI). As the VP of Data and Analytics at Freightos, I find freight data incredibly exciting.