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Check Call: Look at all those boats with Brian Glick

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On this week’s episode of Check Call, Brian Glick, co-founder at Chain.io, joins host Mary O’Connell to dive into all things ocean freight.

KEY QUOTES FROM GLICK:

“Work with a freight forwarder if you’ve never done it before. One of the really interesting challenges with the ocean industry is that 99% of the time products are ending up in another country, meaning you have to have expertise with other countries’ customs filings.”

“Having a relationship with an international freight forwarder...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/check-call-look-at-all-those-boats-with-brian-glick

Chain.io nabs $11M in quest to create frictionless supply chain

Hundreds of trucks lined up to enter Port of Houston

The last several years have proven how resilient the supply chain is, but also how fragile. The supply chain, as the global economy has learned, is only as good as the information contained within it, and the ability to share that information across platforms, partners and customers.

Chain.io was founded to alleviate that complexity. On Wednesday, the company announced an $11 million series A funding round to continue achieving that goal. The round was led by Fontinalis Partners and High Alpha,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/chainio-nabs-11m-in-quest-to-create-frictionless-supply-chain

Borderlands: Is ‘sureshoring’ the next big thing in cross-border trade?

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Is sureshoring the next big thing in cross-border trade?; Growers Express adds border facility; MasAir expands with two A330 cargo planes; and ReturnQueen expands into the Austin market.

Is ‘sureshoring’ the next big thing in cross-border trade?

After the supply chain disruption last year caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Chain.io founder and CEO Brian Glick said global...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/is-sureshoring-the-next-big-thing-in-cross-border-trade

Supply chain integration platform Chain.io secures $5M funding round

Data integration provider Chain.io has raised $5 million in a funding round led by Grand Ventures and Mercury Fund. 

Officials for the cloud-based platform said they will use the funds to fill a number of positions in sales, engineering, customer success and more.

“We will be immediately deploying this capital to help expand our world-class supply chain integration network and help our customers develop their digital nervous systems throughout their extended supply chain,” Brian Glick, Chain.io’s...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/chainio-secures-5m-funding-round

The Morrow Roberson Road Test: Kontainers and Chain.io – a promising partnership

Kontainers – once described by The Loadstar as the “swashbuckling antidote to digital disruptors” – is a SaaS company that provides online platforms, branded for clients, for freight forwarders and shipping lines.  
The company has signed up an impressive array of clients, including Toll Holdings and Maersk. 
Kontainers offers a practical solution that integrates into customers’ existing systems and helps to manage bookings, rate comparisons, customs, payments, data analytics and more....

https://theloadstar.com/the-morrow-roberson-road-test-kontainers-and-chain-io-a-promising-partnership/