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Forwarders and ocean carriers are betting a major holiday in Asia and seasonal inventory building at U.S. retailers will provide a boost to container shipping rates. Despite the short-term bump, one outlook for 2019 suggests the container shipping industry will remain challenged.  Spot rates on one of the busiest ocean trade lanes for moving containerized […]

Sanguine outlook could flip, but retailers look well stocked ahead of peak season.

Freightos CEO and serial entrepreneur Zvi Schreiber ventures onto FreightWaves Insiders this week to discuss: Freightos’ new deal with a major airline that has the company soaring, the dangers of replicating Amazon’s business model and the how he has found success as an entrepreneur. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and everywhere podcasts are […]

Freightos, the software as a service (SaaS) platform for the freight industry, is building an online pricing and booking platform for air cargo for one the biggest airlines in the world. United Continental (NYSE: UAL) plans to use Freightos’ WebCargo Horizon platform as the back-end system for on-demand booking, dynamic pricing and real-time updates for […]

Freightos will offer real-time quotes and booking on Europe’s third-largest air carrier as part of the company’s growing online freight marketplace. IAG Group, the holding company for British Airways and Iberia Airlines, said Freightos’ WebCargo is the first third-party platform to offer access to rates and capacity for air freight on IAG flights.   WebCargo […]

As U.S.-China trade tensions escalate, data appears to be pointing to a volume slowdown.

The U.S.-China trade talks throw another curveball at shippers and leave no time to move containers ahead of new tariffs. Market experts see no quick relief at hand, and the weak rates are the set-up for service cuts by the ocean carriers in the coming weeks. As reported in FreightWaves, the Freightos Baltic Index for […]

A five-month drought in Panama has reduced freight carrying capacity of the country’s canal of ocean carriers by nearly one-fifth. It’s also giving an unseasonal boost to shipping rates for U.S. East Coast-bound cargo. Starting next week, the Panama Canal Authority will reduce the maximum allowable draft for the largest of ships that use the […]

The raise adds to the flurry of activity that has hit the digital freight forwarding space since the beginning of 2019.

FreightWaves adds air temperature information as well as new fleet count data.

World’s largest ocean freight forwarder adds money-back guarantee and carbon offset to what is now considered ‘table stakes’ in ocean freight.

WebCargo by Freightos has acquired India-based Air Freight Bazaar, with the intent of expanding its footstep in global air cargo digitalization.

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NYSHEX looks to bring in other trade lanes to its platform while Freightos sees ocean shipping outmatching other modes in digital drive.

project44’s Jett McCandless, KeepTruckin’s Ori Franco, Transfix’s Drew McElroy, and Freightos’ Philip von Mecklenburg-Blumenthal were all panelists.

New service aims to provide smaller shippers more certainty when booking ocean freight.

The Panama spread (FBX.PANA) widened last night when Freightos released new container rates for this week: rates from China to the American East Coast (FBX.CNAE) climbed to $3,683, while rates to the West Coast (FBX.CNAW) fell slightly to $2,527.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation says not to travel in or to the state; Walmart grabs a 200K square foot foothold in NYC; the IMF says British economy will contract if no deal on Brexit; Freightos raises $45M; global seaborne coal trade grows 4%; Tesla’s having a hard time delivering cars.

Freightos raised an additional $44.4 million in a third round of funding, led by the Singapore Exchange, as it seeks to expand into risk management tools for container shipping.

The Freightos Baltic Container Price Index shows the volatility of container prices out of China to the North American West Coast as importers try to adjust to a new era of global trade.