A focus on price, not value, causes freight rate portals and 'digital forwarders' to struggle

At some point San Francisco-based Shyp claimed a valuation of $250m; at the end of March the portal that had started out offering a simple worldwide shipping solution to small ...

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Last March we reported on the demise of US-based on-demand shipping start-up, Shyp. The company, ...

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Recommends / How Shyp sank: rise and fall of an on-demand start-up

Hype alone can’t carry you, a truism on-demand shipping start-up Shyp has had to accept. The ...

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Recommends / Struggling 'Uber of shipping' retreats to San Francisco

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