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

Freightos

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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Top 25 Freight Forwarders 2017: Digitization & E-Commerce continue to reshape the marketplace

The Logistics Academy

The global freight forwarding market has grown by 2.7% in real terms since this time last year, but owing to a continuation of excess capacity issues and lower average oil prices, rates continue to fall in both air and sea freight. Top 25 Global Freight Forwarders. DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding.

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

Freightos

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. Email responses are obsolete in just minutes and only digital solutions can keep essential freight moving.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift.

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When it Comes to Ocean Shipping, We Have to See Beyond Today’s Squalls and Plan for the Long Term

Logistics Viewpoints

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. 1 carrier stopping its dealings with even a portion of the world’s freight forwarders?

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Welcoming Shipsta to Freightos

Freightos

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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U-Freight Expands in South Korea with E-commerce Fulfillment Center

Airfreight Logistics

U-Freight Korea, part of the Hong Kong-based U-Freight Group , has opened a new logistics hub in Incheon to support its growing e-commerce business. Over the course of 2020, the U-Freight Group will also roll-out e+ Solutions, its logistics product designed for e-commerce start-ups, to the South Korean marketplace.

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