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News / Hi-tech OpenPort transport app targets the 3PLs' Asian road freight market share

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Multinational shippers are abandoning 3PLs in emerging markets for a new, Uber-like, mobile app for road freight.

Hong Kong startup OpenPort, which recently raised over $4m in funding, has secured FMCG giants Unilever and GlaxoSmithKline as customers for its direct-to-carrier, on-demand transport app.

OpenPort co-founder and chief executive ...

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    July 20, 2016 at 11:41 am

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