{"id":98631,"date":"2015-03-11T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=98631"},"modified":"2015-03-11T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:30:37","slug":"cititrends-episode-three-freight-forwarding-e-readers-and-tedxaccra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/cititrends-episode-three-freight-forwarding-e-readers-and-tedxaccra\/","title":{"rendered":"#CitiTrends Episode Three: Freight Forwarding, E-Readers and TEDXAccra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a packed show on the March 10, 2015 edition of #CitiTrends.<\/p>\n<p>With the freight forwarding community in Ghana being so upset about some imposition of levies, i speak toLinda Ansong, Co founder of Vestracker (a cloud based software application that provides solutions for freight forwarders) on how their system can help solve some of the problems of Ghanaian freight forwarders.<\/p>\n<p>A group of people who have dreamed up a way of getting Ghanaian children reading again is Worldreader. 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