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Freight Market Intelligence: Data is crucial, but context is king

Freightos

In this article, Eytan Buchman, Freightos’ CMO, discusses the importance of data and context in global freight and logistics. In other words, data usage follows a cycle in which it becomes an edge…and then quickly becomes table stakes. On the one hand, it’s mission critical. And they are.

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Five Key Takeaways From JOC’s TPM 2016

Freightos

For shippers, carriers and logistics providers, the JOC ’s TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference) is one of the must-attends on the annual events calendar. The world’s most popular route is still chock full of surprises, including: Vietnam has emerged as star exporter to the U.S., Express Logistics.

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SCRC Meeting Insights Part II: Management Principles for Executing Visibility Strategies

NC State SCRC

We are used to operating in functional silos that involve managing people and keeping them in buckets, and the data these people are exposed to reinforces these silos. And very often, the processes those functions have are within silos as well.