News / Flexport buys online container tracking specialist Crux Systems

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US digital-first freight forwarder Flexport has completed the acquisition of container tracking and shipment visibility company Crux Systems, for an undisclosed amount.

Crux Systems was founded in 2014 by Eric Klein and Jennifer Colvin who set out to automate container shipment visibility so that shippers, freight forwarders and hauliers could “receive data such as gate-out updates faster than carriers would provide them directly”.

A Crux Systems user types in the container number and the system “auto-populates their data in a dashboard that ...