Time to bring digital forwarding to the perishables sector, says Transship

A new player is poised to bring the digital forwarder model to the perishables sector – with a little help from other start-ups.

Chicago-based Transship has teamed up with a trucking provider, a tech partner for global tracking and TradeLens for managing marine transport, and the group is set to commence trials next month to ship out US food exports.

Transship founder and chief executive Amit Hasak previously ran cold storage facilities in Chicago, where he experienced a litany of frustrations vented ...