Freightos

Tradeos Limited
Freightos
Private
Industry Logistics
Founded January 1, 2012
Founder Zvi Schreiber, CEO
Headquarters Hong Kong
Products Freightos network, Freightos auto-quote
Website www.freightos.com

Freightos is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. The Freightos Marketplace matches buyers and sellers of international freight services. Freightos is also the trading name of the company, which is registered as Tradeos Limited in Hong Kong. Freightos was offered to beta customers at the end of 2012 and commercially launched during conferences (WCA Family Conference, WPA Conference - Bangkok and AirCargo 2013 - Las Vegas) in March 2013.[1][2][3]

History

Freightos was founded in January 2012 by Zvi Schreiber. Schreiber has previously founded and managed other start-up companies including companies acquired by IBM and GE. The first beta customers of Freightos went live in October 2012 and the SaaS service was commercially launched in March 2013. Freightos raised initial funding from OurCrowd.[4] Freightos is the trading name of Tradeos Limited, a Hong Kong company. Freightos is member of Airforwarders Association since January 2013.[5]

Main features

Freightos provides features for uploading freight pricing contracts in Excel, a database for freight rates, and a module for automatic freight and quotations on the Web. The quotation algorithm includes routing of door-to-door freight services.[6] The Freightos Network supports exchanging quote requests and quotes between freight forwarders and their agents.

Competitors

For managing contracts, Freightos competes with Catapult and 7L. The Freightos network competes with FreightNet.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "FreightOS announces a 'new era of automation' for the global freight industry", logisticsit.com, 9 April 2013
  2. ↑ March, Dan - Voice of Independence, p. 3. (April 2013). “Instant bookings thanks to FreightOS”. World Logistics Media
  3. ↑ WPA 3rd Annual conference, Bangkok, Thailand, March 2013
  4. ↑ Abel, Shira (June 2013). "FreightOS: Bringing sexy back to the freight industry". TheNextWeb
  5. ↑ Airforwarders Association Member, January 2013
  6. ↑ American Journal of Transportation, 5 April 2013

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