Comment / Flexport debacle – 'it's fascinating' but is it 'fixable'?

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By Alessandro Pasetti

12/09/2023

The amount of nasty comments that came our way with regard to Ryan Petersen and Flexport has been truly unbelievable since the end of last week.

Borderline disgusting, if you are a Flexport-er, yet probably also deserved, to a great extent.

Because, after all, the noise that the returning CEO, Typesfast Ryan Petersen, has made in the past few days on social media and in the press, as one source reminded me yesterday, concerns forwarding and logistics and its future. Its credibility. ...

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