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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. While prior risk management disruptions occurred and quickly established a new normal, in the COVID-19 pandemic, the only normal is constant change. With the rising costs of accessorial charges as the freight sat on the dock, moving freight by ocean container grew more problematic.

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Freight Innovation and the Lesson from a Dead Remote Control Tech Play

Freightos

In this article, we review how carrier and forwarder fragmentation remains one of the most significant hurdles for modern freight, how freight standardization and platformification are posed to change that, and why innovation we can’t even imagine might be around the corner. But as a freight technology junkie, it made sense.