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Online Freight Platform Market Scenario and Growth Analysis 2020-2026

Feb 06, 2020 (Market Insight Reports via COMTEX) — The report titled “Online Freight Platform Market” has recently added by MarketInsightsReports to get a stronger and effective business outlook. It provides an in-depth analysis of different attributes of industries such as trends, policies, and clients operating in several regions. The qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques […]

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Salesforce and Samsung invest in blockchain firm Digital Asset

Microsoft veteran Susan Hauser has also joined the board of the company building Australia’s new stock exchange post-trade solution using blockchain technology. Digital Asset has revealed that Salesforce Ventures and Samsung Venture Investment Corp participated in its latest financing round, with the Series C raise exceeding $35 million. Digital Asset is focusing on its smart

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Baltic Exchange and Freightos Group Unleash Shipping Market Visibility With First Daily Container Freight Index

For the first time ever, daily spot ocean freight rate indices for 40-foot containers (FEUs) are now available via the Baltic Exchange and the Freightos Group, adding real-time, transparent price discovery and risk mitigation into the container freight market that powers global trade. The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) has been produced weekly since April 2018

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Seattle-based FreightWeb makes market entrance, with a sharp focus on partial truckload transport

FreightWeb is financially backed by Madrona Venture Group and 8VC, with the latter having also backed Flexport, Flexe and other logistics technology-focused companies. The company is led by Will Payson, whom serves as co-founder and CEO, and its team has a combined 50 years of logistics experience in previous leadership roles at FedEx and Amazon,

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New connectivity tools enter the market for freight, equipment transactions

Greater connectivity between brokers, carriers, and other parties in freight and equipment-related transactions was the theme for technology news the past week. Teletrac Navman has a new integration with fleet management software company, Fleetio, for their mutual customers to automatically sync odometer readings. Fleets using Teletrac Navman for telematics data and Fleetio for preventative maintenance

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Digital Freight’s Bumpy Road As Virus Spreads, Macro Slows

Tech-enabled disruptors promise to upend the way things have always been done to help streamline industries that are paper-reliant, process-reliant and perhaps ripe for a shake-up. For some newer firms that have gone from concept to multiple funding rounds at what might seem breakneck speed, the question becomes whether the disruptors themselves can avoid being

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Emerge scores $20M to expand digital freight marketplace

Image: Jim Allen/FreightWaves Emerge​, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based digital freight marketplace, announced Tuesday it has closed a $20 million Series A financing led by NewRoad Capital Partners, a growth equity capital firm based in Rogers, Arkansas. The round also includes Greycroft and 9Yards Capital, among other investors. With the latest round of funding, the company plans

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Samsara integrates with McLeod’s LoadMaster platform to streamline fleet dispatching

Industrial internet of things provider Samsara announced on Monday that it will scale up its association with McLeod Software by enhancing workflow integration of its suite of solutions with McLeod’s LoadMaster platform. LoadMaster is an accounting software tool that helps trucking fleets manage dispatch operations. By integrating with LoadMaster, Samsara hopes to optimize the experience

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Ben Gordon: Supply chain execs optimistic about growth, ready for M&A

 (XPO CEO Brad Jacobs answers questions at BGSA. Photo: BGSA) The majority of transportation and logistics executives expect their businesses to grow by more than 10% in 2020 and say they are “very likely” to consider a merger, acquisition, investment or other transaction in 2020, according to survey data gathered at BGSA’s annual conference. Last week

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Parade helps Jones Logistics move to digital brokerage operation

Jones Logistics moves over 150,000 open-deck loads a year, but the specialized nature of the work made it labor-intensive. Even with modern technologies that allowed for simple digital booking capabilities, Jones found each load still required the involvement of a sales representative. The issue was its transportation management system (TMS). It’s not that the system

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