Flexport CEO: No matter who our president is, we need more trade, not less
International trade helped lift almost a billion people out of extreme poverty in the last 30 years. But trade is still too hard–Flexport aims to fix that.
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Pirates and Their Parrots
Parrots have been common in shipping since the golden age of piracy. Not much has changed, except now instead of colorful birds repeating the words of their pirate masters, we have so-called industry analysts repeating the words of shipping line executives. Not unlike their…
Flexport Raises $65M to Fund Global Expansion
We’re announcing that we’ve raised a Series B round of $65M to fund our global expansion, bringing our total capital raised to $94M.
On Hanjin
This week Hanjin, world’s 7th-largest ocean carrier, failed to reach terms with its creditors, and started down the path to bankruptcy. The company’s primary creditor, who refused to renegotiate terms with the carrier, was the Korean Development Bank (KDB), a government agency…
Rethinking Last-Mile Logistics: Deploying Swarms of Drones with Self-Driving Trucks
Bold new possibilities emerge when humans are taken out of the logistics equation. What if we combined swarms of delivery drones with self-driving trucks?
Flexport Goes Global: Expansion to Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York City
We are excited to announce that Flexport is opening three new offices to better serve our clients around the world: Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and New York City.
The History of the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI)
The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) is a highly cited metric used to discuss the health of global trade. What is its origins and significance?
Miners vs. Merchants: How Global Trade Made Men Wealthy during the California Gold Rush
Who got richest from California's gold rush? Find out how global trade and a mass migration of people resulted in real golden opportunities.