Premium Comment Post-Apex probe: Smart freight, smarter regulators

For decades, freight forwarders have competed on a familiar set of metrics: rates, capacity, reliability, transit time and network reach. Technology has improved the tools, but the basic proposition has remained remarkably consistent – get the customer’s cargo from A to B efficiently.

That proposition is quietly changing.

As artificial intelligence (AI), cloud infrastructure and advanced electronics reshape global trade, an increasingly attractive category of cargo has emerged. Semiconductors, servers and other high-value technology products offer forwarders exactly what ...