Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management
Freightos
APRIL 23, 2025
It handles everything from rating and booking to shipment management, invoice auditing, and beyond.
Less Than Truckload Shipping Trends to Wrap Up 2018
GlobalTranz
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Shipping rates will continue to soar, and demand for more capacity will push the stretched industry to its breaking point, says Michael Angell of Freight Waves. As consumers take to their favorite retailers, also due in part to the strong economy, volume shipped will increase. Get Your Free Copy Here. Download eBook.
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America’s Largest Small Truck Network with Alex Winston
The Logistics of Logistics
DECEMBER 24, 2024
Supported by advanced technology, their multifunctional customer portal provides instant booking, quoting, real-time tracking, and other features designed to streamline the shipping process. Expedite All: A freight brokerage company that connects smaller carriers and owner-operators with shippers needing expedited shipping services.
Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions
Freightos
APRIL 2, 2024
More Resources Home Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions Joyce Tai April 2, 2024 If there’s one lingering lesson from the supply chain crisis of COVID, it’s that digitization can help organizations navigate crises…but that digitization can’t be put in place DURING that same crisis.
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Reinventing Ecommerce Shipping with Itamar Zur
The Logistics of Logistics
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Itamar Zur and Joe Lynch discuss reinventing ecommerce shipping. About Veho Veho ’s mission is to power the future of commerce by making shopping, shipping and returns work seamlessly for everyone. Veho is reinventing shipping, and all parts of the post-purchase experience as we know it.
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Introducing Freightos Enterprise: End-to-End Procurement, Benchmarking, and Management
Freightos
APRIL 23, 2025
It handles everything from rating and booking to shipment management, invoice auditing, and beyond.
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E2open Ocean Shipping Index Shows Geopolitical Tensions, Labor Shortages and Port Congestion Driving Significant Increases in Global Transit Times
E2open
JANUARY 31, 2025
Latest report highlights ripple effects of ongoing turmoil at key ports as primary cause of extended transit times and booking delays DALLAS – Jan. The e2open Ocean Shipping Index empowers shippers with data-driven insights to proactively navigate supply chain challenges. 31, 2025 – E2open Parent Holdings, Inc.
E2open Ocean Shipping Index Reveals Sharp Increase in Global Ocean Shipment Transit Times Due to Multiple Ongoing Disruptions
E2open
JULY 31, 2024
Latest report shows year-over-year increase of eight days for global average shipment time from initial booking to clearing gate at final port, five-day increase in actual transit time AUSTIN, Texas – July 31, 2024 – E2open Parent Holdings, Inc.
E2open Ocean Shipping Index Cites Ongoing Conflict, Extreme Weather and Threat of Labor Strikes as Key Drivers of Port Congestion and Longer Transit Times
E2open
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
NYSE: ETWO), the connected supply chain SaaS platform with the largest multi-enterprise network, has published the latest edition of its Ocean Shipping Index, a quarterly benchmark report that provides insight for decision-making around global ocean shipments. This was primarily due to longer booking, loading, and transit times.
Shipping Digitization: Solutions for Container Shipping Booking
IT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
By Alice Johnson (pictured) Full-Time Professional Blogger The post Shipping Digitization: Solutions for Container Shipping Booking appeared first on IT Supply Chain.
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The Container Payment Portal and the Rise of AI in Freight with Jake Hoffman
The Logistics of Logistics
MAY 20, 2025
Jake is the Chief Technology Officer of Gnosis Freight, a logistics tech company focused on the lifecycle of a shipping container as it moves around the world. Jake is the Chief Technology Officer of Gnosis Freight, a logistics tech company focused on the lifecycle of a shipping container as it moves around the world.
No More Black Swans: The Age of Supply Chain Uncertainty
Freightos
APRIL 29, 2025
Book a Demo T he Inspiration Behind Freightos Enterprise A little over a year ago, my team and I embarked on an extensive listening tour, sitting down with nearly one hundred enterprise shippers and BCO senior executives from the supply chain and logistics sectors. – Paolo Galli, VP Group Logistics Operations at Electrolux.
Optimize Your E-commerce Returns Strategy With Real-Time Data
GlobalTranz
MARCH 1, 2021
Reduce confusion over bookings, pickups, and deliveries by sharing critical documents within an overarching TMS platform. With the GlobalTranz TMS , you can ship, track, and manage your entire freight network, including your reverse logistics needs, with one platform, from any device.
The Great Maersk Shift
Freightos
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Demand for ocean freight was lower than anticipated, and Hanjin Shipping, another top ten ocean liner, was already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping. While not outrightly linked to this release, Maersk, now a shipping line and forwarder, terminated its key account status.
What The Canada Post Strike Means for Freight Shipping
Freightera
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Canada Post’s Strike Is Impacting Businesses Across North America: Here’s What You Need to Know The nationwide strike by Canada Post workers, which began on November 15, 2024, has had a significant impact on the freight-shipping landscape of Canada. LTL shipping is a great workaround as long as you have enough volume to ship.
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How a 3PL Can Strengthen Your Supply Chain Resilience
GlobalTranz
MAY 20, 2025
If your business depends on freight shipping, you've likely felt the effects of a world that seems to change overnight. From port congestion and fuel surcharges to weather events and labor shortages, the threats to your shipping network are real and growing. Even businesses that ship only within U.S. The good news?
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Freightos has publicly listed today as Nasdaq:CRGO
Freightos
JANUARY 26, 2023
As of this morning, Freightos is a public company trading on Nasdaq with the ticker CRGO , taking the next step in our journey to make global trade more efficient with the world’s global freight booking and payment platform. If international shipping didn’t exist, well, we’d all be standing here naked. Together, we did it.
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Power B2B Networks
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 10, 2014
If you miss reading the Shaman in the next few weeks and you want some new reading in the area of supply chain excellence, consider tucking my new book Metrics that Matter into your suitcase. Today, it is rolling off the presses, as I write, and it will ship from the Amazon warehouses on December 15th. I welcome your feedback.
Too Much Focus on E-Commerce Shipping Practices? The Important Reminder That Logistics Fundamentals Still Matter
GlobalTranz
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
E-commerce growth has become part of the record books. Unfortunately, e-commerce shipping practices, although different from traditional retail shipping, still fall short. Supply chain leaders need to understand why logistics fundamentals will continue to shape e-commerce shipping strategy.
E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index Reveals Notably Improved Cross-Ocean Transit Time for Global Freight Deliveries
E2open
JANUARY 19, 2023
Latest report highlights how lessened demand for goods from Asia has continued to reduce port congestion, resulting in an average eight-day decrease in total time from booking to receipt compared to the year-ago period. Companies can use this data to make informed decisions on when to book ocean freight.
You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. Since 1990, the size of ships increased 3X, but the design of the west coast ports remained largely unchanged. meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2 meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2
Welcoming Shipsta to Freightos
Freightos
AUGUST 19, 2024
A Perfect Match for Our Mission At Freightos, our mission has always been to bring international shipping into the 21st century, using digitalization to make it faster, more cost-effective, and more transparent for the organizations that literally move the world. That’s exactly where Shipsta comes in. And it’s happening.
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Learning to Speak the Language of Demand
Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 21, 2014
<In fact, so much so that I wrote a book about it.> As the long tail (small orders shipped with low-frequency) of the supply chain grows, demand latency increases and there is a greater need for demand sensing technologies. ” (For more on this topic check out the book, The Business Forecasting Deal. ).
Containerized shipping joins modern financial world with CME futures
Freightos
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Conversely in 2021 when rates were sky high, suddenly companies that had negotiated fixed rates couldn’t get their cargo on the ship without paying an extra premium surcharge. We refined our data, limiting it to actual pricing used by logistics service providers to ship containers, to ensure validity. But seriously, what does it mean?
LTL to Intermodal Shipping: How to Find and Eliminate Freight Spend Black Swans
GlobalTranz
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Shippers need to know why freight black swans are increasing, how using LTL to intermodal shipping options can reduce their incidence, and a few best practices to keep the use of intermodal from becoming a black swan itself. Shippers should work with multiple carriers and tap into the value of both LTL and intermodal shipping too.
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The Year Ahead with Doug Waggoner
The Logistics of Logistics
JANUARY 6, 2023
EchoShip – A self-service shipping platform giving shippers the ability to quote, book, ship, and track, as well as manage invoices, all online. The easy-to-use portal consolidates and simplifies shipping by enabling customers to build loads, store frequently used shipment information, and track shipments in real time.
Freight Classification Errors, Re-Weighs, & Other Common Freight Adjustments Are Eating Your Bottom Line’s Lunch
GlobalTranz
DECEMBER 5, 2014
Shippers are often challenged when dealing with the freight classification system from the National Motor Freight Classifications (NMFC) book, the code numbers assigned to all products that determine the correct freight class for shipments. LTL shipping, much like any industry with so many moving parts, can be a bit tricky from time to time.
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project44 unveils Movement: a revolutionary Decision Intelligence Platform for supply chain management
Freight Waves
JUNE 16, 2025
Movement solves for this by empowering AI agents to clean data, then communicate and act at the operational level, including booking shipments and performing complex reroutes, all while keeping stakeholders informed. This includes resolving issues autonomously, calling carriers, rerouting freight, and executing bookings.
Trac Intermodal preps 200K chassis for China container surge
Freight Waves
JUNE 6, 2025
TW ) and Hong Kong-based Hede International Shipping. The ocean services that were suspended are being reinstated and schedules are now booked,” said Gilene. From our customer conversations and forecasting, it’s a mix of goods that were ready to ship and some new factory production, but mostly new, reinstated production.”
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Last Mile Shipping Success Requires a Holistic Approach
Talking Logistics
APRIL 23, 2019
Not long ago, people would take a Saturday afternoon to visit a furniture showroom, sit on several couches, fill out an order form, write a check, and wait six to twelve weeks for the sofa to be shipped to the store. Two-day shipping standards for packages is impacting consumer expectations of large format deliveries.
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PayCargo and Gnosis Freight to Power Container Payment Portal for Hapag-Lloyd
Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 5, 2025
The Container Payment Portal will serve as the primary interface for Hapag-Lloyd customers to manage compliance with the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) and facilitate the payment of import line demurrage charges for U.S. million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies.
10 Best Inventory Management Books
EMERGE App
DECEMBER 19, 2023
There are lots of inventory management books available which can help you understand basics, but I am here with the list of best books in the market. Below is the list of 10 inventory management books, which are must read if you want to work in warehouses or inventory industry. Best Inventory Management Books of All Time: 1.
Container rates surging as shippers rush ahead of deadlines – June 10, 2025 Update
Freightos
JUNE 10, 2025
China’s ports are likely still working through some of the backlog of ready to ship goods created during the April-May lull in China-US demand. Carriers are planning additional transpacific GRIs of $1,000 – $3,000/FEU for mid-June and again on July 1st.
November 21, 2023 Update
Freightos
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Judah Levine November 21, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) decreased 8% to $1,573/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) decreased 2% to $2,383/FEU.
GeTS Rolls Out Upgrades to CALISTA to Streamline Global Trade Processes
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JULY 15, 2021
Through CALIS-TA, shippers can make freight bookings and track its status, fulfil regulatory requirements, and secure financing for their trades. A product is only useful when you are able to connect to carriers and make your bookings,” shared Ng Chee Keong, Vice-President of GeTS. Connectivity has always been important to us.
Freight Market Snapshot: Houthi Attacks in Red Sea and Suez Canal News Updates
Freightos
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Suez Canal News Update The Suez Canal is a crucial lane for global shipping, with 50-60 vessels of all types transiting each day for about 19,000 per year, including about 30% of global container traffic and more than a million barrels of crude oil per day. Live map of Suez Canal and Red Sea, Dec.
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Beyond The Rails and Roads: The State of Intermodal with Anne Reinke
The Logistics of Logistics
APRIL 10, 2025
Learn More About Beyond The Rails and Roads: The State of Intermodal Anne Reinke | Linkedin IANA | Linkedin IANA Homepage | UIIA What is Intermodal?
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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility
Logistics Viewpoints
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages. The company is focused on ocean shipping. The company streamlines and standardizes the shipping process worldwide for a network of over 220,000 shipping professionals.
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This Week in Logistics News (April 27 – May 3)
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 3, 2024
Amazon in the news: Amazon’s Prime orders are getting delivered faster and faster Hawaiian Airlines slowly adds freighters for Amazon business Walmart in-store AI is giving employees advice on how to sell products USPS delivery unit proposal sparks service, cost concerns for shipping partners White House earmarks $1.5B
Editor’s Choice: What Are White Glove Services in Transportation Management?
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 17, 2021
In shipping, this translates to taking every precaution necessary and delivering exactly to a consumer’s specifications. White glove shipping may include these particular services and solutions: Home delivery that involves assembly, installation and setup. That may amount to hiring added delivery drivers or movers for bulky appliances.
Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Until then, join us for our monthly networking calls, books/reports , podcasts, and blog posts.
The Flock Freight Story with Oren Zaslansky
The Logistics of Logistics
APRIL 6, 2022
Oren is the Founder and CEO of Flock Freight , a Certified B Corporation that’s been reinventing freight shipping since 2015. SolSource Logistics opened Oren’s eyes to how wasteful traditional freight shipping is. Flock Freight is a Certified B Corporation that’s been reinventing freight shipping since 2015.
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How a 3PL Empowers Shippers With LTL Transportation Stability
GlobalTranz
JUNE 23, 2021
Port backlogs, cargo limitations on container ships, and a lack of available equipment and port facility staffing. Fewer labor resources are available to meet the rising demand in both the warehouse and in transit. Capacity constraints within truckload and parcel have led to spillover within the LTL market resulting in capacity shortages.
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Navigating Uncharted Waters: SMB Importers, 2024 and Red Sea Crisis Lessons
Freightos
JANUARY 15, 2024
In fact, the hard reality is that looking back over the past decade, supply chains have been disrupted by shipping bankruptcies, wars, pandemics, geopolitics and tariffs. They should monitor the evolving geopolitical situation and adjust their shipping strategies accordingly. Most of these are nearly impossible to plan for.
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