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WiseTech Global weighing US domestic tech acquisition options: CEO

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Mar 17, 2023, 8:41 AM EDT

Widely used forwarding software provider WiseTech Global will pursue further US landside logistics technology targets in 2023, its CEO says.
Logistics technologyContainer shippingForwarding

Shipwell arms ‘underserved’ smaller shippers with automated bidding tool

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Mar 16, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT

Shippers that often use spreadsheets and small transportation teams to bid and execute freight shipments are the target of a new software tool from technology provider Shipwell.
Logistics technologyTruckingTruckloadLTLTruck brokers

Freightos’ 2022 financials reveal losses amid improving operating margins

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Mar 14, 2023, 5:20 PM EDT

Freight rate booking marketplace Freightos said its unprofitable business is seeing improving margins and that scale will help it past the breakeven point.
Logistics technologyContainer shippingContainer linesForwardingAir CargoAir cargo carriersAir cargo forwarding

Drayage tech provider PortPro targeting shippers with new tracking tools

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Mar 10, 2023, 2:05 PM EST

Drayage software vendor PortPro is attempting to narrow the gap between the tools that port truckers and their shipper customers use with a new container milestone tracking product it has launched.
Logistics technologyNorth American portsDrayageTrucking

Shippers committed to digital investments in logistics: S&P Global

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Mar 9, 2023, 12:53 PM EST

Shippers are showing “healthy adoption” of a wide variety of digital transformation projects, according to new research from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Logistics technologyContainer shippingPortsTruckingSupply Chain

Visibility providers target challenges of container terminal milestone data

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Mar 7, 2023, 3:59 PM EST

Shippers struggling to manage demurrage fees and container availability information have two new options to track the status of containers at ports.
Logistics technologyMaritimePortsMarine terminalsNorth American ports

Investors back Overhaul’s hybrid risk management–visibility strategy

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Mar 7, 2023, 9:00 AM EST

Supply chain risk-focused technology provider Overhaul has channeled demand for reducing exposure to cargo theft into a $38 million funding round just a few weeks after acquiring competitor SensiGuard.
Logistics technologyContainer shippingTruckingRail

US startup eyes street turn tech expansion throughout North America

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Mar 6, 2023, 10:00 AM EST

Technology startup Qualle is trying to overcome drayage industry inertia around matching empty import boxes with export loads outside of ports by using early-stage funding to serve every North American port market.
Logistics technologyPortsMarine terminalsNorth American portsDrayageTrucking

TPM23: Flexport’s new CEO puts focus on building ‘next-generation’ tech

William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor | Feb 28, 2023, 2:23 PM EST

Flexport, the polarizing digital forwarder, will double down on technology development during a lull in global trade, new CEO Dave Clark said at TPM23.
Logistics technologySupply Chain

TPMTech23: ‘Purchase order management’ the new catchphrase in logistics

Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor | Feb 27, 2023, 10:36 AM EST

Retailers are discovering the importance of closely managing purchase orders as increasingly complex trans-Pacific supply chains spawned by the pandemic highlight the need for a heightened hands-on approach.
Logistics technologyContainer shippingTrans-PacificSupply Chain

TPMTech23: Retailers seek to make supply chain visibility data more useful

Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor | Feb 24, 2023, 10:42 AM EST

Shippers are gaining better supply chain visibility, but now they must step up their game and better manage and integrate the data they are receiving from transportation providers, technology companies told TPMTech23.
Supply ChainLogistics technology

GSBN, Navis partner to help exporters track ERD changes

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 23, 2023, 11:00 AM EST

The Global Shipping Business Network is giving exporters an app that would track changes to earliest return dates across container terminals that use Navis terminal operating systems.
Logistics technologyContainer linesMarine terminals

BlueCargo will use new investment to expand container platform nationwide

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 23, 2023, 9:07 AM EST

Rising demand from importers reckoning with the costs of detention and demurrage have fueled an $11 million investment into container management provider BlueCargo.
Logistics technologyContainer shippingMarine terminalsNorth American ports

Slync investors double down on beleaguered company with new funding

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 22, 2023, 4:09 PM EST

A new funding round for the embattled logistics software vendor is bound to raise eyebrows in an industry that has long been cynical of the impact of venture capital-backed founders.
Logistics technologySupply Chain

Leaf Logistics using technology to create dedicated truckload fleets in key US markets

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 21, 2023, 6:00 AM EST

Freight coordination software provider Leaf Logistics is working with a number of shippers and truckload carriers to build flexible, dedicated fleets to allow for continuous moves in big US markets.
Logistics technologyTruckload

ONE commits to sensor-equipped dry container fleet

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 20, 2023, 3:00 AM EST

Singapore-based Ocean Network Express, the sixth-largest global container line, will work with a division of Sony to track its global fleet of boxes.
Logistics technologyContainer shippingContainer lines

Logistics automation will work with humans, not replace them: experts

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 17, 2023, 8:00 AM EST

Automation is already being infused into shipper and forwarder technology systems in ways that may be imperceivable to users.
Logistics technologyForwardingSupply Chain

WiseTech continues acquisition campaign with $414 million Blume purchase

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 16, 2023, 9:09 PM EST

WiseTech Global is doubling down on its reach into US intermodal networks with its $414 million purchase of Blume Global three weeks after acquiring drayage tech provider Envase.
Logistics technologyMaritimeForwardingInternational railIntermodal providers

Top container lines commit to complete shift to electronic bills of lading by 2030

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 15, 2023, 7:00 AM EST

Major container lines have agreed to an ambitious 2030 deadline to migrate from paper bills of lading to digital versions as resistance to such initiatives weakens.
Container shippingContainer linesLogistics technologyTransport, trade and regulation

Ex-Slync CEO Kirchner charged with defrauding investors of millions

Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor | Feb 14, 2023, 4:49 PM EST

Federal authorities allege ex-Slync CEO Chris Kirchner took millions of dollars meant to fund the startup technology company and instead financed extravagant personal expenditures.
Logistics technologyForwarding