Nowports: Building LATAM's logistics OS.
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Moving things
The shipping container is credited with an outsized impact on international trade. Its intelligent design, simple efficiency, and global interoperability changed the way products are moved worldwide. It made transportation and handling costs cheaper. That, in turn, enabled people to buy more stuff, from more places, for less money.
The associated trade boom tangled an already knotty industry. Increased demand led to more ships roaming around, more ports loading and unloading, and more customs to be cleared. Consistent, universal economic growth meant a steady stream of new customers and sellers joined the mix.
Over the years, the industry coalesced into a complicated spider web. Moving something from point A to point B implicates many different actors, each with their own niche expertise.