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Demystifying Freight Shipping From China

ShipBob

While your customers can track their parcels from their smartphones down to the block the delivery truck is on, the best you can hope for is a phone call when the ship leaves port and one when it arrives on the other side of the world. In today’s hyper-connected world, freight forwarding can seem like a lone holdout.

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Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

In order to achieve a realistic ETA that could dynamically vary, the freight forwarder needed deeper, reliable visibility into port operations such as traffic into the port, any containers that are held up, weather conditions en route to the warehouse, etc. Technology can help alleviate this challenge. and “When will it reach me?”