How much does it cost to pay an international freight invoice? If you’re not sure—or your figure doesn’t truly represent the entire accounts payable (AP) cost—you may be missing opportunities to save. In May 2018, the maritime research and consulting firm Drewry estimated that inefficiencies in payment processing […]

Issues regarding Apache log4j (log4j) vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 were brought to our attention at BlueX Pay. Our system was not vulnerable to this issue. However, we still performed our due diligence regardless, as outlined below […]

In the world of shipping, time is money, especially now. Freight costs are soaring. Shipping is moving along at a crawl in some markets. And the current state of things seems most likely a surge, not a blip. ING does not see the situation improving significantly until 2023, when a major increase in ocean freight […]

Logistics industry experts and outside analysts have been urging ocean carriers to modernize their pricing methods for years. Then came 2020. The barrage of impactful events that rocked ocean shipping that year demonstrated that business as usual is no longer a viable option. The speed with which global happenings can transform shipping dynamics—rendering good deals […]

Ocean carriers who wish to implement dynamic pricing software have seen the future. Historic levels of demand, volatility, and global interconnectedness have created an ocean freight tightrope act—one that hard-to-predict supply chain hiccups stand ready to topple. With no slowdown on the horizon, it’s safe to say ocean freight shipping has entered a new era. […]