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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American Fast Freight, Inc. (AFF) -- and its affiliated companies and divisions -- provides a wide range of ocean freight forwarding, trucking, project logistics and warehousing-distribution services. The core business is ocean freight consolidating and forwarding -- specializing in the Jones Act markets of Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and Puerto Rico. Subsidiary and/or divisions of American Fast Freight, Inc. include Hawaiian Ocean Transport, AFF Distribution Services, American Relocation Services, AFF Logistics, AFF Bypass, and Caribbean Shipping Services...

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