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The price of diesel fuel hit an all-time high in the U.S. on Thursday at $5.55 a gallon, an increase of almost 20 cents from just a week ago and 51 cents more than prices in April. While carriers and owner-operators across the U.S. are struggling to keep up with the rising prices, the cost of diesel is affecting freight rates as well as trucking capacity in Mexico also.

De padres hindús. Concebido en Ecuador, nacido en Kenia e inscrito en el país. Él es Deepak Chhugani, creador y CEO de la empresa Nuvocargo, una plataforma digital de comercio transfronterizo entre México y EE.UU. que está modernizando un mercado de US$ 2 trillones. Tiene 28 años. Vive y trabaja en Nueva York.

Nuvocargo desarrolló Quickpay para otorgarle liquidez a los empresarios y hacer frente a los costos operativos. Con esta solución se realiza el pago en un máximo de 48 horas, sin embargo, entre un 80 y 90% se pagan el mismo día.

Conversamos con Anaid Chacón, Head of Product de Nuvocargo, un marketplace logístico, sobre el impacto de las mujeres en la logística y en cargos operativos, que muchas veces, por estereotipos, no parecen tener tanta representación.

Este año, las scaleups mexicanas que se suman a la Generación Endeavor Outliers 2022 son 99minutos, Bitso, Clara, Clip, Flat.mx, Jüsto, Kavak, Kueski, Klar, Nowports, NuvoCargo, Previta, Urbvan, Xepelin, Yalo, Ze*Brands y Zubale.

Inbound Logistics offers this annual guide of some top TMS providers and solutions that can put you on the right road toward improved transportation management and performance.

In the people section: Nuvocargo, a logistics startup focused on simplifying U.S.-Mexico cross-border trade, hired Jay Gerard as head of customs.

“Investors are pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses,” our former colleague Jon Shieber wrote in 2019. But a pandemic later, amid unrest over gasoline prices across the globe, it’s time for a revisit.

La región latinoamericana ya se posicionó como una de las más atractivas para emprender e invertir en startups y Nuvocargo es una de las 100 startups de mayor crecimiento en la lista de Forbes México este año.

In 2018, Deepak Chhugani had a YC-backed startup in the HR space that wasn't going anywhere. He went back to the drawing board and decided it was time to follow his dad's footsteps into the world of logistics and supply chain. But before pivoting, he offered the money back to each of his investors.