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Freightos has publicly listed today as Nasdaq:CRGO

Freightos

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. People complain that freight is a traditional industry. Not many startups ever get to become public companies.

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Supply Chain & Logistics News Round Up (September 23rd-27th)

Logistics Viewpoints

2024 Typhoon Season has Caused Billions in Agricultural Losses This year’s typhoon season has been particularly disruptive, severely affecting port operations and shipping across the western Pacific, with significant storms such as Gaemi, Ampil, Shanshan, Yagi, and Bebinka impacting Taiwan, China, Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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Freightos is going public…and how we got here

Freightos

This is an exciting milestone that accelerates our vision of a digital platform that modernizes international freight and improves global trade. World trade is built on a foundation of global shipping. 90% of goods are imported and each imported product bears what you could call an offline shipping tax. First, some background.

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Shopify, Flexport and Freightos in Supply Chain Tech Related News

Supply Chain Matters

That includes the acquisition of collaborative warehouse robotics provider 6 River Systems in 2019, and online shipping fulfilment services provider Deliverr in May of last year. The company cited falling demand for shipping services in 2023 and the overall macroeconomic downturn that has impacted global businesses as reasons for this action.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

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Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. Those shipments need to go by Ocean or the more expensive Air mode if ship berths can’t be found. Because of this, they are predicting rates will skyrocket for Ocean and Air.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 5 – 11)

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The countdown is officially on for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Instead, due to the climate in Qatar, the tournament was pushed out to November and December. This, along with a host of controversies, have led many to believe that awarding Qatar with the World Cup was a blatant mistake.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic—a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport. a digital freight forwarder. Share of Global Shipping Vessels Arriving on Time. population, so the slogan goes. in the U.K.

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