freight forwarding

Global freight forwarder JAS Worldwide announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the forwarding, logistics, and supply chain management unit of Greencarrier Group. Founded in 2000, Gothenburg, Sweden-based Greencarrier Freight Services International provides sustainable logistics...

When TriumphPay acquired document automation platform HubTran in June, former HubTran CEO Matt Bernstein was faced with a choice: to take a victory lap or to keep building. He saw an opportunity: Because TriumphPay is focused on North American freight, HubTran's still-young business serving...

More than 150 trucking, logistics and towing companies are collectively owed hundreds of thousands of dollars after a New Jersey freight forwarder specializing in shipping automobiles, boats and motorcycles worldwide abruptly ceased operations and filed Chapter 7. Advectus Transportation Services...

A spinoff from the recent acquisition of HubTran by the TriumphPay subsidiary of Triumph Bancorp (NASDAQ: TBK) is setting up shop to bring that technology to the freight forwarding business. The new company, BravoTran, is based in Chicago.  A group of about a dozen employees from HubTran is...

Logixboard, a white-label platform for freight forwarders, has announced it has closed a $13 million Series A investment led by Redpoint Ventures, including continued investment from Social Leverage, F-Prime Capital Partners and Founders Co-op. The company has raised a total of $18.8 million since...

Zach and Anthony talk about the latest coronavirus developments on transportation, the main functions of a freight forwarder and recent economic developments. Image Sourced from Pixabay

FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller chats with Julian Alvarez, Founder and CEO of Logixboard. SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTBE: http://bit.ly/FW-subscribe Follow Us! Twitter: https://twitter.com/freightwaves Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FreightWaves/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/...

The world's leading forwarders have made huge advances in their online sales capabilities in the last year but face increasing competition from digital forwarders and container shipping lines, according to the latest secret survey by Freightos. Of the world's top 20 freight forwarders secretly...

At FreightWaves LIVE Chicago, FreightWaves Market Expert Henry Byers has a fireside chat with SEKO Logistics CTO Mike Powell on the challenges of building a forwarder in the middle of the country. Apple Podcasts Spotify Rewatch the LIVE streams on YouTube More FreightWaves Podcasts Image...

As a Southern California-based customs broker and freight forwarder, Stephen Dedelo, co-owner and chief information officer of Dedola Global Logistics, finds himself on the front lines of the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. The customs brokerage industry clears billions of dollars of imports that...

Most of the time when executives in transportation and logistics cite "machine learning," it's little more than a buzzword that evokes vague notions of technology continually improving itself. That was decidedly not the case with Ryan Rusnak, chief technology officer at Airspace Technologies, a...

Third-party logistics providers must be ready to optimize data, streamline communications and never stop evolving to be successful in today's marketplace, said Mike Powell, chief technology officer of Chicago-based SEKO Logistics. "Third-party logistics providers need to figure out who you want to...

The Filipino partner of freight forwarder U-Freight Group (UFG) has launched iShipmore, an online shipping platform aimed at assisting sellers who need to ship items bought online to Philippines-based consignees. The platform targets logistics problems experienced by online purchasers of goods, who...

Manitoulin Group has acquired Associated Cargo Specialists, continuing to grow its freight-forwarding business with a Montreal-based firm specializing in moving refrigerated goods and renewable energy components.  The Canadian transportation and logistics group's freight-forwarding arm, Manitoulin...