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Crowdshipping, sometimes referred to as crowd logistics, [1] applies the concept of crowdsourcing to the personalized delivery of freight.Crowdshipping can be conceived as an example of people using social networking to behave collaboratively and share services and assets for the greater good of the community, as well as for their own personal benefit.
A freight exchange or load board [1] is an online service for haulage companies, logistics providers, freight forwarders, transport companies and (in some cases) private customers. It allows haulage companies to search a database of available freight that needs to be delivered and advertise their available vehicle capacity.
Some terms may be used within other English-speaking countries, or within the freight industry in general (air, rail, ship, and manufacturing). For example, shore power is a term borrowed from shipping terminology, in which electrical power is transferred from shore to ship, instead of the ship relying upon idling its engines.
This week Chicago-based Edge Logistics launched its digital freight-matching platform Capacity, a web portal that makes the brokerage's private load board transparent to carriers and allows them ...
Freight transport, also referred to as freight forwarding, is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo. [1] The term shipping originally referred to transport by sea but in American English , it has been extended to refer to transport by land or air (International English: "carriage") as well.
The first steps to digitization in trucking came in the form of digital freight exchanges such as Teleroute [15] [16] and TIMOCOM. [17] [18] [15] Greater efficiency in trucking is being achieved through intelligent freight technology such as automated interfaces that can help truckers and regulatory bodies reduce stops at weigh stations and time spent at border checkpoints. [9]
Goods station in Lucerne, Switzerland Typical loading platform in goods station in small country town (abandoned). A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are loaded onto or unloaded off of ships ...
Freightos operates a booking and payments platform for international freight, [1] using a SaaS-Enabled Marketplace model. [2] The platform, which connects airlines, ocean liners, trucking carriers, forwarders, and importers or exporters, facilities over a million annual transactions across 55 carriers [3].