Most merchants in South Korea keep track of their international shipping logistics via email until their cargo safely gets to its destination. This includes all the administrative processes, from shippers to importers, and covers logistics, customs, charges and transportation booking.
Portlogics, a South Korean digital freight forwarder that offers a robotic process automation-based forwarding management system, wants to help merchants track international shipping logistics and get status updates on shipments, digitizing the process with its software tool.
The CEO of Portlogics, Hyoung-chul Choi, is a serial entrepreneur who first noticed the inefficient way to track international logistics when he ran his first startup, YLP, a middle-mile logistics startup that South Korean telco SKT‘s subsidiary T-Map Mobility acquired in 2021.
During the pandemic, the shipping price constantly fluctuated, so shippers couldn’t anticipate t …
