Rivigo, a freight and logistics startup in India, has raised $65 million in a Series E round led by existing investors Warburg Pincus and SAIF Partners. The startup plans to use the new capital to further expand its network and tech infrastructure. Founded in 2014 by Gazal Kalra and Deepak Garg, Rivigo owns and operates […]
GTZamp automates multi-movement routes, offering loads to drivers based on an ever-growing number of attributes.
Loadsmart, a digital freight brokerage, today announced a collaboration to provide Oracle Logistics Cloud customers instantly bookable truckload rates and guaranteed capacity from its network of carriers directly in Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) Cloud. Fortune 500 customers such as Kraft-Heinz and The Coca-Cola Company can now leverage Loadsmart’s dynamic routing guide technology within the OTM […]
Improved safety and total cost of ownership is driving more truck makers to make air disc brakes standard.
U.K.-based Kontainers is releasing a new version of its freight booking software platform aimed at the small and mid-size enterprise market and priced per transaction. The software-as-a-service company said Kontainers Essentials, the third iteration of its ecommerce platform, enables smaller freight forwarders “to immediately compete with new digital first market forwarding entrants.” The five-year old […]
As more signs in the truck freight market point to decreasing demand and excess capacity, brokers are looking for better ways to increase the efficiency of their back-office operations to remain competitive and grow their business. Most brokers require at least one or two employees dedicated to cutting checks, stuffing and sending out envelopes, verifying […]
Commentary by Bill Driegert, Senior Director of Uber Freight, explores the current and near-future of on-demand freight.
Food retail chain Lidl is collaborating with Deutsche Post to put 500 DHL Packstations in Lidl stores to help Lidl customers pick up their online purchases once they are done with their shopping at the retail storefront.
As one of the fastest growing economies in the world, India has its fair share of trouble reducing its overall spend in logistics. Looking at improving infrastructure and creating multimodal hubs can help.
Capital Logistics is the newest member of the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). Read about the company, as well as BiTA’s efforts to develop blockchain standards for transportation and logistics.
Maersk’s (Nasdaq OMX: MAER) fight to bring automation to its largest North American marine terminal is getting support from shippers and non-ocean carriers concerned about the impact on the environment and the precedent of government overreach into the future of freight. The world’s biggest shipping line faces a do-over as the Los Angeles Board of […]
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The blue-collar job market still uses conventional methods for sourcing and recruitment, making the industry highly inefficient, complex and opaque. Wonolo is automating the redundant manual processes to improve the situation.
RF Controls has a passive RFID tag solution that provides precise location tracking of tagged items over long distances that also works without batteries.
BMW and Daimler are collaborating on a long-term partnership to develop Level 4 self-driving cars that can drive autonomously on motorways and park without human intervention.
The Fourth of July weekend brings a record number of Americans on the highways, increasing accidents due to driving distractions, intoxication and even fatigue.
Gemini Shippers Group, a non-profit shippers association that is nearly 100 years old, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA). Read about Gemini and why it has joined BiTA.
In partnership with Slync… data integration layers are crucial for managing and adapting to new risks to supply chains.
Hapag-Lloyd (FSE: HLAG) and Ocean Network Express (ONE) says they will join the TradeLens blockchain platform developed by Maersk (Nasdaq OMX: MAER.B) and IBM (NYSE: IBM). The fifth- and sixth-largest carriers respectively, Hapag-Lloyd and ONE join CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in using the platform. TradeLens now extends to more than half of […]
Charley Dehoney has written about the growth of digital freight brokerages and what they bring to the market and the industry.
