Q&A with CoLoadX: 'There is a 25-year tech gap between retailers and forwarders'

Fauad Shariff

I often talk to the executives of startup companies, mainly from the US, but few end up being on record. So I am glad to be able to make an exception with Fauad Shariff, chief executive and co-founder of CoLoadX, a New York-based start-up backed by venture capital.

Mr Shariff, a freight forwarding veteran, discussed the structural changes determining the new competitive environment for the middle-man, as well as the technological gap that currently exists between freight forwarders and other key ...