Millet aims to get quotes to customers within 24 hours, but across the freight forwarding industry it's not uncommon for it to take two or three days just to come up with a quote on the cost of shipping. The $1 trillion global business of shipping goods and raw materials by rail, ship, or plane has lagged most of the modern economy in both transparency and speed, largely skipping the digital overhaul most other industries have undergone. Now a growing group of well-funded startups is pushing to change that.
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