'Working from home' can be tricky for freight firms with 'onsite-only' tech
Forwarders and carriers are being stretched to the limit by lockdowns and quarantines sweeping the ...
I had the pleasure of talking to Graham Parker, chief executive and co-founder of Kontainers, about what he terms the “inevitable collision of freight forwarding and SaaS”.
His own career history is steeped in freight forwarding, and he was able to share some fascinating insight on what’s happening in freight tech, and what lies ahead for the incumbents and the disruptors.
The ‘point of no return’
“Coming from a decade-plus forwarding career, to spending the past half decade in the software field, ...
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