freight technology

Canadian digital-freight matching platform seeks to list on TSX Venture Exchange with “conservative” C$34 million valuation.

Ben Thrower writes about nearshoring manufacturing, which has gone on for decades. He also writes about the potential for nearshoring services, a new opportunity for both U.S. and Latin American businesses.

WABCO announced that its shareholders have approved the proposed acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen.

Charley Dehoney writes about the process to finance a freight tech/logistics tech start-up.

Too much to talk about with too little time. Several key industry topics were bantered about by some of the best thought leaders in the industry on the final day of Transparency19. In a panel discussion, “The Bull, the Bear and the Other Guy,” moderated by FreightWaves President George Abernathy, insight was provided about the […]

Take an antiquated trillion dollar industry, machine learning and artificial intelligence, investors chasing higher yields and a few industrious solutions-oriented individuals and you get an emerging industry – high-growth freight tech. This was the conversation of the High-Growth CEO Panel at Transparency19. John Engstrom, Vice President of Investment Banking Transportation and Logistics at Stifel, moderated […]

Long thought of as a global exchange company for buying and selling securities, Nasdaq has used its marketplace expertise and technology knowhow to leverage itself into a partner and provider for market structure, exchange and settlement guidance for markets of all types. Scott Shechtman, Head of New Markets and President of Longitude at Nasdaq, was […]

Inexpensive cloud-based technology is leveling the playing field between small, mid-sized, and large 3PLs.

This week’s focus centered on all things freight and tech and innovation, including the announcement of Trucking Freight Futures and the FreightTech Innovation case competition challenge.

The financial tech and freight tech sectors both have a huge addressable market, and both have been traditionally resistant to change. Will the disruption continue, and what should we expect after similar patterns of explosive growth?

In their fifth round of funding, Brazil-based freight broker CargoX has raised an additional $60 million.