Kehlan Kirwan Q&A: Jan van Casteren of Flexport

Kehlan Kirwan meets Jan van Casteren of Flexport, one of the world’s hottest start-ups which has raised €25m in investments. Flexport aims to disrupt the trillion-euro shipping industry involved in freight management.

What does Flexport do?

Basically, what we are is a freight forwarder. So what we do for our clients is we freight from the factories, usually in China or Asia, to clients’ warehouses in Europe or the US. We do this by ocean or air.