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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. . Nearing the end of 2020, Maersk has remained true to that goal. The Freight Game of Thrones.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Read on to learn more about the top revenue-earning 3PL warehousing companies in 2020. FedEx set out to become a global logistics player as a full-service freight operator.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

This is due in part to the chokepoints they cause in the flow of global freight as well as the fact that they give people access to resources and commercial activity more effectively. billion tons of cargo (as of 2020). More than 1.14 million ships have passed through the canal since it was finished in 1914, transporting 13.94

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Podcast: Peter Hove Hildebrandt and Sune Stilling Talk Venture Capital

Requis

Historically, people who know this industry know that it was very much “gut based”, where you would just make a few calls and then set the freight rates. There was a saying back then in Denmark, “You never never had to leave Maersk.” From 2010 to 2020 we doubled down on the mass consumerization of the Internet.

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FedEx Announces New March 2022 International Shipping Surcharges

Intelligent Audit

While all major carriers have implemented surcharges since March 2020, FedEx has now taken another step forward by implementing surcharge hikes across pre-eminent international O/D pairs. The new peak surcharges for FedEx Express parcel and freight services, effective March 7, 2022 , are as follows. per pound or $1.50 per kilogram.