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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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Data standardization and its benefits – Executive Insights with Thomas Bagge, CEO of DCSA

Shipping and Freight Resource

Executive Insights is a series by Shipping and Freight Resource that provides useful insights and thoughtful analysis on what is happening in the maritime, shipping, freight, logistics, supply chain and trade industries. Executive Insights is your chance to pick the brains of industry veterans, leaders, and enablers.

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FreightHub stays on course – our crew successfully steers our customers digitally through the corona crisis

Forto

Freight forwarding companies face the big challenge of keeping the consequences as minimal as possible. The industry is unanimous: communication is the be-all and end-all. Flexible working models, paperless processes and digitalization are non-existent or a novelty in many places in the industry.

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FreightHub stays on course – our crew successfully steers our customers digitally through the corona crisis

Forto

Freight forwarding companies face the big challenge of keeping the consequences as minimal as possible. The industry is unanimous: communication is the be-all and end-all. Flexible working models, paperless processes and digitalisation are non-existent or a novelty in many places in the industry.

Course 52
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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

However, alternative routings that combine ocean freight and air freight reveal a tremendous opportunity to decrease cost and transit times, benefiting the entirety of the value chain. Of course, the economic viability of these types of shipments is limited to specific commodities.

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Milestone: Freightos Celebrates One Million Transactions!

Freightos

Aimee Loshinsky January 25, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo In Freightos Q4 2023 KPI press release , we announced that the company surpassed one million bookings across the platform in 2023. Freight is digitizing itself now at real scale.

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How Technology is Changing Ocean Shipping

Now, That's Logistics

Like many industries, the ocean freight sector is caught somewhere between using age-old systems that still technically work, and moving into the digital world. First, there are many parties involved in international trade,” including shippers, consignees, freight forwarders, and customs house brokers.