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Borderlands: Texas company aims to help keep returns out of landfills

10 December 2023

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Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/borderlands-texas-company-aims-to-help-keep-returns-out-of-landfills

uShip leader rose through ranks from unpaid intern to CEO

27 September 2023

Heather Hoover-Salomon, CEO of uShip, said an internship she had growing up in her hometown of Pittsburg, Texas, helped introduce her to the global supply chain industry.

Austin, Texas-based uShip helps people and businesses haul items through use of its online marketplace that connects shippers with customer-reviewed carriers.

“How I got into supply chain logistics … was when I got a job at Pilgrim’s Pride, a multinational poultry business based in Pittsburg,” Hoover-Salomon told FreightWaves....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uship-leader-rose-through-ranks-from-unpaid-intern-to-ceo

Commentary: Data sharing offers limited customer service

22 October 2020

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To shine light into the metaphorical black box where transporting items from point A to B takes place, reliable data is necessary to understand what is happening over the network as time passes by. As a physical activity subject to time, and taking place over a defined route, for-hire transportation services are quite measurable. When data is generated, it makes...

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$28bn invested in freight start-ups since 2015 – most in last-mile and B2C

9 July 2020

Venture capital funding into the logistics industry has amounted to nearly $28bn since 2015, research from McKinsey shows.
And although US digital freight forwarder Flexport has taken many of the headlines during this period, it is actually the last-mile and B2C logistics sectors that have received the overwhelming proportion of that finance.
Ocean and air freight platforms – in which McKinsey classes Flexport – follow far behind.
And, somewhat surprisingly, given the focus …

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https://theloadstar.com/28bn-invested-in-freight-start-ups-since-2015-most-in-last-mile-and-b2c/