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The last decade in logistics was defined, in large part, by the hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital that flowed into technology startups, and the way that money compelled the rest of the industry to invest to keep up.Given the global state of economic uncertainty, it’s only natural to speculate that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) will significantly restrict what venture capital (VC) is available to startups in 2020. But it’s more likely the pandemic will sharply focus the lens through which VC investors appraise the potential of such new endeavors in logistics.To be sure, COVID-19 will drive...

Logistics startups are facing a new reality in which funding rounds are likely to be smaller, recurring revenue expectations will be higher and valuations will be greater for subscription-based software than for digital brokers and forwarders.

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COVID-19 hastens new VC approach to logistics

MSC avoids fine as FMC finds no OSRA-22 violation in charge complaint

Coming implementation of European ETS setting up for a predictable mess: analyst

US LTL capacity tightens further as Estes cyberattack outage continues 

Ocean carriers sell US chassis lessor to private equity group

FMC dismisses ILA’s claims of price fixing at Southeast ports

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The Federal Maritime Commission said its enforcement agency does not have a case against the ocean carrier over a congestion surcharge complaint from a shipper.  

If shippers found the post-IMO 2020 bunker fuel formulas confusing and misaligned across ocean carriers, just wait until they see the surcharges linked to Europe’s new emissions trading system, says analyst Lars Jensen.

Brokered LTL freight may be the first freight diverted away from Estes, and it may be harder for those transactional shipments to find alternate carriers. 

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