Venture capital-backed firm incorporates road, weather and hours-of-service data to providing real-time tracking.
Start-up looks to spread adoption of more nimble APIs to replace legacy EDIs used widely in transportation industry.
The first round of technology demonstrations at Transparency18 shared a common theme of integrated disparate systems, data formats, and devices. It’s clear that the action in freight tech has shifted to aggregating and analyzing data, not simply generating it.
Hapag-Lloyd explores priority container freight; CSX raked in Q1 profits; aluminum prices are turbulent; UPS launches Groupon-like discounts for retailers; project44 raises $35M in Series A.
The words ‘realtime’ and ‘visibility’ get thrown around a lot, but most companies offering visibility solutions don’t actually define what they mean by the terms, which confuses the market.
project44, a logistics technology company, seeks to use technology to provide much-needed enhancements to visibility in the transportation and logistics industries.
Blockchain is a foundational technology, said Jason Kerner, vice president of sales engineering for Project44, that will allow the building of transformational technologies in the future.
TMW acquires truckload visibility aggregator, 10-4, continuing a trend of FreightTech acquisitions in the market transparency space.
To solve inefficiencies in the supply chain, project44’s goal since day one has been to focus on the automation, optimization, and visibility of the freight movements by replacing legacy technologies with its “one-to-many” connectivity.
