[kyllo]

I think part of the problem with that pitch is that the cost of an IT integration in this industry could pay for a lot of people in Asia to manage a forwarding operation in Excel. Ocean carriers don't have like, APIs. It's all custom integrations with EDI, SOAP, or CSV-over-FTP and you have to have a lot of tedious meetings with them to figure out how to map out and interpret the data they can send and receive.

[makestuff]

Yeah they also don't really have an incentive to integrate with flexport because even though it is a PITA you really only have a few options to ship freight across the ocean.