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TECHNOLOGY “Freightos research shows it takes an average of three days for a shipper to receive a simple price quote even on a major trade lane.

Twenty-fve percent of containers don’t make it on to the ship you expect them to go on. Eighty- three percent of shipments don’t have proper track and trace visibility door to door.” – Zvi Schreiber, CEO and founder of Freightos from China to the United States and was “shocked” at the inef- and trace visibility door to door.” And so he decided to create an fciency he experienced as a shipper every time he needed to ‘Expedia’ for freight.

ship goods. Between 2012 and 2015, Freightos focused on digitizing the

He said his experience wasn’t unique: “Freightos research supply via a solution for logistics service providers to use inter- shows it takes an average of three days for a shipper to receive a nally. This platform, Freightos AcceleRate, does rate manage- simple price quote even on a major trade lane. Twenty-fve per- ment, instant freight quoting, business intelligence and tender cent of containers don’t make it on to the ship you expect them to management. Additionally, Freightos acquired Freightos Web- go on. Eighty-three percent of shipments don’t have proper track Cargo with the world’s largest database of air cargo rates.

Finding quotes on Freightos Marketplace, the online global shipping booking service.

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