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There was a sharp deterioration in shipping schedule reliability in 2025, according to the latest data from the Beacon online platform. New analysis of 27,613 ocean freight shipments in 2024 and 2025 showed that arrivals within 12 hours of the estimated time of arrival fell year-on-year from 36% to 13.9%. The proportion of shipments arriving three or more days late rose from 18.1% to 47.4.
Beacon says that was once a ...
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Supply chain visibility and collaboration platform Beacon has launched road freight tracking, giving users visibility of their ocean, air, and road transport in a single dashboard. Customers can expect real-time tracking data updates at 15-minute intervals for important tracking milestones including estimated and actual departure and arrival times and remaining ...
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Supply chain visibility and collaboration platform Beacon has launched a collaborative feature enabling information sharing and communication across supply chain partners. It says that Beacon Live Boards moves beyond freight tracking, enhancing supply chain collaboration and visibility.
Knowing where goods are in the supply chain is a difficult task both due ...
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The Beacon supply chain visibility platform has added air freight tracking and ocean transshipments to its suite of products.It says that obtaining tracking updates can be a costly, time-intensive task with supply chain operators required to log into a multitude of carrier portals and manually log milestones and ETAs in ...
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London-based digital forwarder Beacon has opened an office in Hong Kong and has appointed. James Yu, previously logistics program manager at Uber in Hong Kong, as ocean procurement lead, HK.
A growing number of Beacon’s customers have supply partners in China and elsewhere in Asia, and having a presence in the ...
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Freight forwarding and supply chain finance company Beacon has raised over $15 million in its first-round Series A fundraising round, with investors including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and US venture capital firm 8VC. Beacon was founded in 2018 by former Uber executives Fraser Robinson and Dmitri Izmailov, both former Uber ...
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London-based forwarder and supply chain finance firm Beacon has appointed Brenton Booth as head of supply chain finance. Prior to joining Beacon in April, Booth ran his own strategy and product development consultancy. During his 25-year career, he also served as global head of product management: trade and working capital ...
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