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Our logistics technology news include logistics technology startups, solutions, and the impact of technology on logistics and supply chain management.
The latest Logistics Technology News & Analysis
Freight futures get second look amid increased risk, trading volumes
Peter Tirschwell |
Ongoing supply chain disruption and a significant increase in trading of container freight futures among speculative investors could accelerate the adoption of financial hedging tools among shippers and other physical industry players.
Container Shipping News
Logistics Technology News
Uber Freight offering drop-and-hook option as dedicated-like product for shippers
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
In a move to better utilize its leased pool of trailers, Uber Freight has partnered with software vendor Optimal Dynamics to bundle loads for drivers across 10 trailer pool locations.
Truckload
Logistics Technology News
Truck brokers
Descartes snaps up rival to double down on domestic TMS market
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Acquisitions continue in the domestic freight market, with Descartes buying 3GTMS to continue a decade-long spree of purchases.
Logistics Technology News
LTL
Truckload
Truck brokers
Lack of carrier API progress belies market adaptation to other visibility options
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
While shippers might have expected ocean carriers to make application programming interfaces widely available by 2025, negative incentives have inhibited that progress.
Logistics Technology News
Container lines
Forwarding
Shippers investing in data warehousing capability to increase software options
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The explosion of logistics software-as-a-service tools is leading shippers to build data foundations that reside outside of their internal systems.
Logistics Technology News
FourKites’ exit from Gartner visibility assessment highlights evolving market
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The visibility market has bifurcated into standalone vendors too small to be captured by Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant” report and larger vendors whose platforms extend far beyond what the report evaluates.
Logistics Technology News
Maritime
Trucking News
Rail News
Next phase of digital forwarding on collision course with AI revolution
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Digital forwarders that emerged over the past decade are coming of age in the era of AI, but not all will make it to the other end.
Logistics Technology News
Forwarding
Triumph acquires broker-focused pricing technology provider Greenscreens.ai
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Acquisition activity in the truckload space continues, with price benchmarking vendor Greenscreens.ai the latest to sell.
Logistics Technology News
Truckload
Truck brokers
Trade groups renew push for ocean carrier movement on digitization
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Shipper, forwarder and customs broker associations want to see the members of the Digital Container Shipping Association accelerate efforts to create interoperable process standards.
Logistics Technology News
Port News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Container lines
Forwarding
Technology providers take aim at automating core US customs tasks
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Automation of the customs entry process, which software provider Magaya announced this week, is being enabled by advances in data extraction from emails and offline files.
Logistics Technology News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Forwarding
Incumbents, upstarts strive for lead in agentic AI arms race
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
project44 is the latest established software provider to release a suite of artificial intelligence agents amid a torrent of startups building tools for logistics providers and shippers.
Logistics Technology News
Container Shipping News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Forwarding
Truck brokers
Shippers want more visibility data than terminals are providing: survey
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
A new report from software vendor Kaleris has found that terminal operators around the globe believe they are providing better visibility data than shippers say are they receiving.
Marine terminals
Logistics Technology News
Drayage
North American ports
International ports
Project cargo sector disadvantaged by lag in AI adoption
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Unstructured data, security concerns and value questions are holding back the progression of technology in the breakbulk industry.
Breakbulk News
Logistics Technology News
Breakbulk carriers
Project cargo
Marine insurer group greenlights streamlined eBL vendor approval process
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Regulatory uncertainty around the allowance of digital trade documents is one factor that has slowed the adoption of electronic bills of lading in the shipping industry.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Logistics Technology News
Container lines
Forwarding
Approvals from Europe, US among last hurdles in DSV’s takeover of DB Schenker
Greg Knowler, Senior Editor Europe |
DSV CEO Jens Lund said the size of the Schenker acquisition meant it could take up to two years before the companies were fully integrated into the world’s largest forwarder.
Supply chain
Container Shipping News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Logistics Technology News
Forwarding
Truckload visibility vendor gets funding to expand sensor network
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
GenLogs uses a network of highway sensors to help freight brokers manage freight fraud and also identify sales and capacity opportunities.
Logistics Technology News
Surface
Flexport alums arm 3PLs with tools to refine shipper outreach
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
A startup founded and backed by ex-Flexport sales executives is aiming to help shippers manage the flood of outbound sales efforts they receive from logistics providers.
Logistics Technology News
Visibility vendors move to extend reach and relevancy in rebalancing market
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
A handful of companies unveiled new products in the last week intended to enable decision-making based off the visibility data they provide.
Logistics Technology News
Container lines
Forwarding
LTL
Truckload
CBP seeks industry input on rules curbing low-value shipment abuse
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The US is seeking to amend rules regarding so-called de minimis shipments, which have skyrocketed since the pandemic.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Air Cargo
Logistics Technology News
Drayage outsourcing a path to solving diversification challenge
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Shippers have long outsourced drayage to third parties, but farming out allocation decisions to managed transportation providers threads the needle between access to capacity and neutrality.
Drayage
Logistics Technology News
North American ports
Marine terminals
BlueGrace joins logistics M&A wave, adding FreightCenter to its portfolio
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The acquisition is part of a surge in logistics M&A transactions aimed at simplifying access to systems and services for shippers and brokers.
Supply chain
Logistics Technology News
LTL
Truckload
Truck brokers
US LTL carriers widen market reach through spot pricing technology
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
More uptake of transactional pricing in the less-than-truckload market is a sign that some carriers are targeting smaller or more infrequent LTL shippers.
LTL
Logistics Technology News
Truck brokers
Drayage diversification emerging as shipper priority amid supply chain volatility
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Shippers must weigh the merits of a single-source relationship on drayage through key ports over splitting volume among regional and national carriers, or even brokers.
Drayage
Logistics Technology News
North American ports
Marine terminals
Truck brokers
Cass acquires international freight invoice auditing tool to widen modal reach
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The deal will see Acuitive Solutions’ AcuAudit product integrated into Cass’ freight audit and payment platform, one widely used by large shippers.
Logistics Technology News
Air Cargo
Container Shipping News
M&A pace signals truckload tech industry unsure about ‘unbundling’
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Acquisitions, new product releases and fresh investment among companies catering to truckload brokers speak to an industry wrestling with the need to make things easier for customers.
Logistics Technology News
Truckload
Truck brokers
DAT acquires Trucker Tools in move to reduce load board driver churn
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The acquisition of Trucker Tools will give DAT access to carrier positioning data to arm its truckload broker customers.
Logistics Technology News
Truckload
Truck brokers
Air cargo payment provider acquires Advent eModal
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Advent eModal, a three-decade landmark provider of fee collection and appointment scheduling at container terminals, has been sold by private equity group Blackstone to air cargo software specialist CargoSprint.
Logistics Technology News
Air Cargo Forwarder News
Air Cargo Carriers News
Container lines
Drayage
Port infrastructure
North American ports
Marine terminals
Truckload brokers eye human-technology balance as AI takes hold
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Generative AI is changing the nature of core freight brokerage processes, potentially impacting the amount brokers earn and how employees get paid.
Logistics Technology News
Truckload
Truck brokers
Broker automation vendor lands funding round in increasingly competitive market
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Freight brokers large and small are testing software, including the tools developed by Vooma, that automate core functions such as quoting, load building and tracking.
Logistics Technology News
Truckload
Truck brokers
FourKites, project44 resolve legal disputes over defamation, poaching
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The two biggest transportation visibility vendors in the market have been battling each other in court since 2019 but can now refocus on winning market share.
Logistics Technology News
NYSHEX keeps core vision while evolving in volatile container shipping market
Peter Tirschwell |
NYSHEX is making a renewed effort to solve the fundamental problem of ocean container supply chains, promoting the use of index-linked contracts to build contract integrity and certainty.
Container lines
Logistics Technology News
Smart container vendors create alliance to tackle drug smuggling threat
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The use cases for sensor-enabled container fleets could expand if shipping lines see such hardware as a legitimate tool to combat the threat of illicit goods movement.
Logistics Technology News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Container lines
Port infrastructure
Freightos, e2open link up on air freight e-bookings for forwarders
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
By connecting to forwarder-customers of software vendor e2open, Freightos is continuing its push to develop electronic booking capability in the air freight industry.
Air Cargo Forwarder News
Air Cargo Carriers News
Logistics Technology News
Lack of consolidation driving freight visibility differentiation, competition
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
A dearth of consolidation means there are still plenty of visibility vendors for shippers to choose from, but it also means the market as a whole is on somewhat unsteady ground.
Logistics Technology News
Container lines
Forwarding
North American ports
International ports
Truckload
Startup technology vendor takes aim at cargo theft with free tracking service
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
GenLogs, founded by an ex-counterterrorism expert, is offering shippers and brokers a way to track lost trailers and trucks as cargo theft booms in the US.
Truckload
Logistics Technology News
Truck brokers
NYSHEX says will launch ocean freight rate indexes next year
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The New York Shipping Exchange’s plan to introduce indexes to support long-term contracts adds to an already crowded field of providers.
Container Shipping News
Logistics Technology News
Container lines
Trans-Atlantic
Forwarding
Asia-Europe
Trans-Pacific
Uber Freight opens up truckload capacity network to rival brokers
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The company sees its new Broker Access product as another channel for brokers to find capacity outside of contracts with truckload carriers and posting spot freight on a load board.
Truck brokers
Logistics Technology News
Truckload
DAT, Keelvar integrate on truckload rate benchmarking for shippers
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Customers of automated freight procurement tool Keelvar will get access to more than $1 trillion in truckload pricing data as part of a new arrangement with DAT Freight & Analytics.
Logistics Technology News
Truckload
Truck brokers
Payment technology adapting to account for smaller invoice inaccuracies
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Shippers once saw small variances on freight bills as a nuisance too insignificant to dispute, but technology is enabling more efficient scrutiny across transportation modes.
Logistics Technology News
Container lines
Forwarding
LTL
Truckload
Automation key to improving broker efficiency metrics: experts
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Some freight brokers are increasing the number of loads they can book per day with software that automates repetitive components of the booking process.
Truck brokers
Logistics Technology News
Truckload
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