Flexport wants to be Uber of the oceans

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“Uber Technologies Inc is changing the way people move around cities; Flexport wants to do the same with stuff in the holds of container ships in oceans.” The thing is, though, the way we move round cities remains fundamentally the same – by taxi – and The Loadstar isn’t exactly sure what ground-breaking paradigm of technology Flexport is going to bring to the industry that the host of other tech companies striving away in the sector won’t. Be that as ...