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Supply chain visibility provider FourKites has appointed Dr Bo Tao as chief technology officer and Manik Mair as senior vice president of corporate growth
Dr Bo Tao, has worked in the logistics and software industry for over 20 years, with experience at Next Trucking, Google, Symantec, Dell Technologies and Cheetah Mobile and holds 10 patents.
Manik Mair was most recently the Global Vice President, Head of GTM Strategy, at Ceridian.
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Miami-based freighter aircraft operator Amerijet International has completed a joint proof of concept project with logistics technology firm Quantum-South on technology to optimise aircraft loading and increase revenue per flight.
Amerijet operates a fleet of Boeing 757 and 767 freighter aircraft from Miami to 48 destinations ...
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Climate software company Pledge is offering freight forwarders a simple solution that allows them to invite their customers to purchase carbon credits to offset their unavoidable emissions. Impact Links is a white-label solution, enabling forwarders to add their own branding and can be embedded on ...
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The Freightos WebCargo airfreight platform has developed a system that it says can book cargo onto two or more connecting carriers in seconds – a process that until now often takes 24-48 hours to complete using manual processes.
The first booking was a test shipment by ...
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Digital freight forwarder Sennder Technologies has renewed its joint venture with Poste Italiane for up to 10 years, saying it has the potential to generate up to €2.3 billion revenues. They will use technology to optimise full truck load (FTL) operations and the movement of ...
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Intelligent logistics platform Raft has completed $30 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by global VC investor Eight Roads with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Episode 1, Dynamo Ventures and Moguntia Capital. Founded in 2017, Raft—formerly known as Vector.ai—applies ...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has published the winners of its Hackathon in Frankfurt, in which 20 teams submitted solutions built on its ONE Record data sharing standard to demonstrate innovative use cases that will change air cargo.
The winning projects were:
The Carbulator by Riege ...
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Freight management software company, Forward Solutions, recruited Will Simister to its software development team. Joining the six-strong department in the firm's Nottingham headquarters, his appointment is the latest graduate hire by Forward Solutions. He recently graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a first-class degree in Software ...
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Europa Worldwide Group has signed a deal with the Pledge greenhouse gas (GHG) management platform to help its customers better manage their emissions. It will allow them to track, measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint, offsetting residual emissions using verified carbon removal and offsetting ...
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DP World’s freight community network arm, CNS is urging forwarders and customs managers to prepare for the transition of exports from HMRC’s Chief computer to the new CDS system on 30 November.
It says that there were huge challenges when imports were moved to the new ...
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