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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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What Does a 3PL Do?

Ship Monk

They may also help with freight forwarding, distributing inventory across multiple warehouses, cross docking, or any other services their clients need. If you need freight forwarding services, we do that too! You do have other options, of course. The bottom line? For more on the differences, read What is a 3PL?

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Freight Spot Quotes: How Freight Chatbots Can Automate Quoting

RPA Labs

In addition to faster resolutions for manual quote requests, automating freight chatbots can generate quotes for ground, ocean, and air on-demand, making it easier to determine which mode is correct for each shipment. Freight forwarders no longer need to sit for hours waiting on back and forth emails.

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Freight Spot Quotes: How Freight Chatbots Can Automate Quoting

RPA Labs

In addition to faster resolutions for manual quote requests, automating freight chatbots can generate quotes for ground, ocean, and air on-demand, making it easier to determine which mode is correct for each shipment. Freight forwarders no longer need to sit for hours waiting on back and forth emails.

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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. For Freightos, one million is proof of scalability.

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First Fleet of Autonomous Carriers on Roads

Logistics Business Magazine

On Tuesday, a public demo was carried out at the robotics launch event, where the autonomous carriers navigated a specially designed obstacle course without mistakes. The carriers will be tele-supervised by teleoperators who monitor the driving in real-time. The autonomous delivery will be completely free of charge.

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[Infographic] The Four Types of Transportation Analytics to Know

FreightWaves SONAR

With data being necessary for every freight logistics and shipping chain, transportation analytics are becoming common among transportation and freight forwarding providers. Data collected with earlier methods gets used to recommend one or more courses of action on a point being analyzed. Request a SONAR Demo.