Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2017

Freight Booking Is (Slowly) Going Online. For years, online freight was limited to US domestic trucking. International freight quoting is moving online too, with major progress by enterprise providers, like Kuehne + Nagel , and startups (like the Freightos Marketplace ). For decades, freight was about bigger ships.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 22, 2017

Robust tracking systems on the rails. Railroad tracks across the country are equipped with high tech scanners. A single shipment traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles may receive as many as eight tracking updates per day while on the rails. That level of visibility isn’t always possible on a ship or a trailer.

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EFT

MAY 21, 2025

The immediate aftermath of the Trump administration’s 125% tariff announcement on China on April 2 saw ocean freight bookings fall 67% week-over-week Following on from the dramatic tit-for-tat increases in bilateral tariffs and the suspension of de minimis for packages from China into the U.S.

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