Ferreira spent a good part of his career in the shipping industry before he decided to start a business. He worked at an international container shipping business, United States Lines, after graduating from Providence College in 1982. “There are so many mistakes in ocean shipping, I saw it would be a great thing to help customers,” he says. By 1994, Ferreira started his first business, TradeChek, a company that did ocean freight auditing in the container shipping industry. Auditing ocean shipping bills was both an art and a science, he found.

Source: Forbes October 22, 2018 14:50 UTC