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Successful Cargo Space Delivery

Freightos

We’re huge fans of innovation in the logistics space. Check out how you might have booked this shipment as a freight quote on Freightos. Dragon is the name of the space cargo ship that just delivered 7,000 pounds of freight, including the inflatable room. “Where’s my inflatable room?”

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

For centuries the expense, risk, and frustration with ocean freight held back expansion of the international economy, despite the invention of the steam invention. First use of a modern container for ocean freight. Did You Know That … It wasn’t just about freight. Innovating: The 2000s. Container Regulation.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2001, INTTRA was a joint venture between CMA-CGM, Hamburg Sud, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk Line, MSC, and UASC. To create a standard electronic booking system for the ocean freight industry. History tells us that software acquisitions and consolidation reduces, not accelerates, innovation. History of INTTRA. My dilemma?

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. For centuries, the expense, risk, and frustration with ocean freight held back expansion of the international economy, despite the invention of the steam invention. First use of a modern container for ocean freight.

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How to Harness the Economic Power of Logistics Clusters

MIT Supply Chain

In 2001 the government of Aragón in northern Spain realized that its economy had become overly reliant on a small group of industries, notably auto manufacturing. As well as establishing a pool of educated professionals that the cluster can draw on, an academic partner also provides a platform for research and innovation.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

This corporate management innovation eventually became standard operating procedure throughout the West. made great use of this innovation during the Vietnam War to ship supplies to soldiers, who sometimes even used the containers as shelters … This innovation made the modern globalized world possible.

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BidMode to join the EC Sourcing Family

EC Sourcing Group

highlighted below: Impact on Technology Capability – Expanded use of machine learning, artificial intelligence innovations, and integration methodologies. Founded in 2001 and based in Morristown, N.J., EC Sourcing Group, has also seen a tremendous impact from the merger in its solution capability and ARR as. About EC Sourcing Group.