The Future of Decentralized Cross-border Parcel Delivery

May 29, 2018

Logistics is an industry of efficiency, scale, and most importantly: trust. A single cross-border parcel may be scanned dozens of times along its journey from origin to destination. These scans are the critical point of handover for transactions and payments, and enable consumers to track their package. Effective and economic coordination among individual nodes to reliably deliver parcels to their destination is the core competitive advantage for any delivery service.

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Koch Logistics

Koch Logistics is a leading third party logistics (3PL) company providing smarter supply chain connections through its transportation, shipping and distribution services. Through a network of domestic and international partners located in more than 230 import/export markets worldwide, Koch Logistics helps companies more effectively manage their complex supply chain requirements with on-time delivery, brokering customized trucking, air-freight, rail and sea shipping solutions. Headquartered in St. Paul, MN, Koch Logistics is a division of Minneapolis-based Stan Koch & Sons Trucking, Inc., a privately held, asset based, trucking, warehousing and leasing company.

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