{"id":5306,"date":"2015-06-02T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midamericafreight.org\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2018-12-07T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T19:31:49","slug":"uber-for-freight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/02\/uber-for-freight\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber for Freight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg News recently reported that Flexport is aiming to introduce an Uber-like service to the freight-forwarding and logistics business.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flexport connects customers with carriers, and software takes care of customs, tariffs and other logistics. A Web-based dashboard lets a U.S. importer comparison-shop by typing in variables <i>\u2014 <\/i>Port A on this day or Port B on this one, railcar versus tractor-trailer <i>\u2014<\/i> and displays price-quotes from transport companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Flexport, Petersen says, cuts down on paperwork and headaches for importers, like booking sites do for travelers. It&#8217;s one of the first freight-forwarding outfits to digitize international shipping, making it easy to move goods through customs and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-05-11\/flexport-wants-to-be-uber-of-the-oceans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complete article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg News recently reported that Flexport is aiming to introduce an Uber-like service to the freight-forwarding and logistics business. Flexport connects customers with carriers, and software takes care of customs, tariffs and other logistics. A Web-based dashboard lets a U.S. importer comparison-shop by typing in variables \u2014 Port A on this day or Port B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10146,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions\/10146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.midamericafreight.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}