How Flexport Uses Tracking Data to Guide Shipments Through Weather Disruptions

Опубликовано 6 февраля 2019, 23:53

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When most people think about global trade, they usually imagine planes, trains, automobiles, and ships. What they fail to picture are the companies that orchestrate how all those services to work together—companies like the full-service air and ocean freight forwarder Flexport. For example, to get a cargo from China to the US, says Matthew Sprague, a Senior Engineer on the front end infrastructure team at Flexport, there can be as many as 20 people touchng interaction. "Flexport manages all those interactions to make sure they go smoothly," he says. To learn more about how Flexport gets goods where they need to be, and how AWS helps them keep their systems up and moving quickly, watch our interview.