Disruption

DHL showcased its Resilience360 platform at the 2019 LINK Conference in Orlando

FreightWaves is monitoring a number of trends that will impact the freight market in 2019. Digitization will play a key role in these trends as companies seek to optimize their supply chain processes.

The next big thing is food. Not just food, but hot food, and not just hot food but hot–delivered–food.

In times of mass disruption, it is often only after industry emerges out the other side that it realizes it’s been disrupted.

Startups and incumbents at the demos today are building transparency into their products. Historically freight has been very opaque. The change is emerging here and now.

Industry-wide ELD adoption is forging a yellow brick road for blockchain and other technological marvels.

A weather bomb hit the East Coast over the past two days and it has left a mark that will take shippers several days from which to recover.

The sharing economy is generally organized around a technology platform that facilitates the exchange of goods, assets, and services between people across a varied and dynamic collection of sectors.

While the holiday rush starts in North America a few weeks before Thanksgiving, there is a holiday rush going on already in China as well, and it impacts shipping.

TaaS seems like another in a long line of acronyms that have infiltrated the transportation industrypromising to disrupt the world as we know it. But what is TaaS, and why will this be an acronym that might deliver on its promise?

Steve Sashihara, CEO of Princeton Consultants, recently spoke about disruptive technologies and Big Data in the transportation space. Here are 9 areas of impact he identified. Each slide represents the belief that industry stakeholders surveyed have in digital disruption. (Click the arrow to scroll through).