Comment / Market Insight: Q&A with Kontainers' Graham Parker – freight tech is the real deal

By Alessandro Pasetti

14/02/2019

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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