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Freightera Defies Freight Downturn with Profit Surge and Emissions Cuts

May 5, 2025 by Techcouver Newsdesk Leave a Comment

While much of the logistics sector faces a third year of downturn, Vancouver-based Freightera is marking its 11th anniversary with strong growth, record profitability, and a growing reputation as North America’s leading low-emission online freight marketplace. In 2024, Freightera grew revenue by 31.4%, expanded its automated freight division by 35.8%, and boosted EBITDA by a […]

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Trends in Sustainability: Deglobalization Will Accelerate in 2024

December 27, 2023 by Eric Beckwitt Leave a Comment

2024 is shaping up to be a very different year than 2023. In the rapidly evolving global economic landscape, 2023 has marked a pivotal shift towards deglobalization, reshoring, and the localization of manufacturing. As we peer into 2024, with expectations of falling interest rates and a potential end to the freight recession, a fundamental change […]

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Freightera Posts Profit from ‘Win-Win Model’ as Broader Industry Struggles

November 15, 2023 by Knowlton Thomas Leave a Comment

This year has been a difficult one for the freight industry, with North America’s largest brokerage C.H. Robinson experiencing a 62% decline in earnings per share, 94-year-old Yellow Freight ceasing operations, and Convoy shutting down despite raising over $1 billion in venture capital funding. Some have labelled worldwide stagnancy across the sector a “global freight […]

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BC Tech Announces Winners of 2021 Technology Impact Awards

November 19, 2021 by Robert Lewis Leave a Comment

Now in their 28th year, the Technology Impact Awards (TIAs) have never had more reasons to celebrate than they did last night at Science World. The sold-out TIAs Gala returned to an in-person format while also broadcasting the event live to the tech community. “It was wonderful to come together as a community and experience […]

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Freightera Can Help Transportation Industry Hit 2030 Emissions Reduction Targets

November 10, 2021 by Techcouver Newsdesk Leave a Comment

As nations gather at COP26 to negotiate the emissions reductions necessary to achieve 2030 climate goals and net zero emissions by 2050, Vancouver’s Freightera has a working solution that is already reducing carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Freightera achieves this by automatically redirecting freight to existing, lower emission carriers.  Using data from the US EPA SmartWay […]

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Eleven B.C. Tech Companies Named Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Winners

November 18, 2020 by Robert Lewis

Deloitte Canada has announced this year’s winners of the Technology Fast 50, Companies-to-Watch, and Enterprise Fast 15 awards, recognizing the world-class achievements of the best in tech companies across Canada for the 23rd year. 2020 saw its own unique challenges that shaped today’s tech companies. The list unveiled today highlights those who have shown true resilience, […]

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Eight High-Growth Vancouver Tech Companies To Watch

October 8, 2020 by Robert Lewis

The Globe and Mail has published their second annual ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies and the list of 400 businesses sprawl across sectors, from fashion to finance, and manufacture everything from medical testing devices to organic pasta. Techcouver has poured over the list to uncover Vancouver’s gems of entrepreneurial success, whether they be companies […]

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Freightera Launches SaaS Model With New Plans for Business Shippers

July 16, 2020 by Techcouver Newsdesk

Vancouver-based online freight marketplace Freightera has enhanced its popular free platform with value-added paid memberships and a rewards program. Late in 2019, the company surveyed its top shippers and found they were interested in paid plans if Freightera was to offer them. So that’s what Freightera did. Freightera’s team completed the implementation at the end […]

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BC Tech Association Announces Finalists for 2020 Technology Impact Awards

April 28, 2020 by Robert Lewis

The BC Tech Association took to Zoom today to announce the finalists for the 2020 Technology Impact Awards (TIAs). BC Tech President and CEO Jill Tipping joined co-host Riaz Meghji online to announce the finalists live amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This year the theme of the B.C.’s largest and longest-running tech awards program is “Purpose,” […]

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