dshibarshin

Unfortunate, yet unsurprising. I always looked to Flexport to drive the logistics industry forward, but they are still limited by the extreme inefficiencies between ocean carriers, customs brokers, warehouses and truckers.

There’s no standardized data format that can be handed off at each step without human involvement. It would be optimal to have an algorithm handle the ocean freight, import clearance, and booking the warehouse and trucker to handle it from there.

Maersk took a shot at a standardized data system and called it quits due to limited support. But Maersk does have a platform offering realtime rates on container bookings on their own vessels, import clearance, and trucking through their platform. I believe other carriers like MSC and ONE-Line are following this approach to get their customers on board.

What’s promising is that if one major carrier does succeed with a standardized data process, they can more easily integrate it within the ocean carrier alliance that they are part of. The 3 major ocean carrier alliances control 83% of global capacity. This seems like a more straightforward way to take a stab at setting a standard for millions of containers moving worldwide. Large companies would plug in and to manage their supply chains using their logistics suite, and smaller companies would simply use the ocean carriers dashboards.

For now it appears that it’s still cheaper to hire from the worldwide supply of low paid logistics workers than it is to get everyone on a unified system.

The carrier can announce a general average [1] which allows it to throw the containers overboard if they believe it will help the ship get moving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_average

Always wondered how magazines could afford to pay for this?

The overseas markets can't seem to get enough of the Leafs. I've seen trucks full of Leafs delivered for export to places such as Ukraine.

Although it is more powerful and supports 4K gaming and streaming, it cannot play 4K Blu-Rays: https://twitter.com/thisisFoxx/status/773617609547849728

Reminds me of the classic Chevrolet Corvairs which were equipped with a single-piece steering column that could impale the driver in a head-on collision.

Easier said than done. Even if the cars originate from within the United States, they pass through so many brokers and middle men that it will be quite a challenge to track their final destination. I would even argue that ISIS doesn't source their cars from the US. Instead they look to the United Arab Emirates, who remain the number one importer of used US car (in containers) by quite a margin. [1]

[1] http://www.wcshipping.com/hubfs/D_OfferPDFs/PDF/2015_Q3_Fina...

Anyone else having issues with the Safari extension? After clicking the trust button the extension still failed to install.

I'm guessing not an iPhone 6 or 6+?

Works like a charm, got to 2048 and over 10k points

Second time around was pretty close http://i.imgur.com/psdSwjM.png

Statement from the airline: http://www.malaysiaairlines.com/my/en/site/dark-site.html

The airline lost contact at 2.40am and they only issued their first statement at 7:24am.

Wait, which missiles aren't dangerous?

Really? The company might exceed $1 billion in revenue for all of 2013 in a Bloomberg TV interview last October.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/07/gopro-files-for-ipo-as-the-...

Probably just maintenance issues https://twitter.com/alicetruong/status/421834839721922560

This felt like a chore. Why did they waste their time with parallax scrolling?