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EDRAY appoints new Chief Operations Officer

EDRAY, a technology and managed transportation solution provider, announced the appointment of Sean Santiago as Chief Operations Officer (COO) to its executive management team.

In his new role, Santiago will oversee EDRAY’s operations, reinforcing the company’s dedication to addressing the growing challenges of the final import mile. He will also focus on developing new solutions, driving the execution of EDRAY’s strategic objectives, and ensuring profitable growth across the organization.

This...

https://container-news.com/edray-appoints-new-chief-operations-officer/

Emerge partners with EDRAY to ease drayage pain points

Freight procurement platform Emerge on Tuesday announced it is partnering with EDRAY to offer its global shipping customers access to drayage solutions.

EDRAY received a $7 million investment in July from Emerge founder and CEO Andrew Leto, who was attracted to the company’s unique way of consolidating global shipments and its use of flow stacking, a process that coordinates a number of incoming port pickups so that all cargo is stowed together, making for an easier unloading process, which can...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/emerge-partners-with-edray-to-ease-drayage-pain-points

EDRAY opens new headquarters in North Carolina

The collaborative port logistics platform for international beneficial cargo owner (BCO) shippers, EDRAY has announced the opening of its new headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“EDRAY is committed to strengthening and engaging with the local Charlotte logistics and supply chain community with monthly networking events where ideas are exchanged and meaningful business relationships are developed. To move this initiative forward, EDRAY has created the South End Supply Chain Group, which...

https://container-news.com/edray-opens-new-headquarters-in-north-carolina/

Edray, Kinimatic ink logistics partnership deal

Edray, the collaborative port logistics platform for international beneficial cargo owner shippers, has signed a strategic partnership with the technology-driven warehouse and fulfillment company, Kinimatic, to streamline and accelerate the flow of import shipments from the port to the final destination.

The logistics platform provides destination management to improve cargo velocity and reduce costs through clean data, active management, real-time visibility and supplying drayage capacity where...

https://container-news.com/edray-kinimatic-ink-logistics-partnership-deal/

4 challenges of drayage — and the FreightTech companies solving them

Drayage, in its simplest form, is the transportation of freight from an ocean port to its initial inland destination. These moves tend to average no more than 50 miles, taking containers to rail yards to be put on a train or sending them to nearby warehouses to be sorted, segmented and routed to their next destination.

While the distances are comparatively short, the logistics of routing 11 million maritime containers in and out of ports every year has its full share of challenges.

Below are four...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/4-challenges-of-drayage-and-the-freighttech-companies-solving-them

EDRAY receives $7M to improve port logistics through flow stacking

EDRAY, a drayage platform, is looking to revolutionize the way technology executes port logistics.  

The company announced Tuesday it is looking to accelerate its growth and expand its suite of drayage solutions with a recent $7 million investment from logistics entrepreneur and investor Andrew Leto.

Leto, founder of GlobalTranz and 10-4 and investor in Emerge, My Carrier and Roadrunner Transportation, will now sit on the board of EDRAY.

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/edray-receives-7m-to-improve-port-logistics-through-flow-stacking