TIRPORT ushers real-time visibility into trucking industry

Turkish startup has built country’s largest digital freight marketplace (Photo: Flickr/peterolthof)

Trucking industries across the world ubiquitously suffer from fragmentation within their markets, which has complicated efforts to ensure end-to-end visibility across logistics operations. In Turkey, one of the largest markets around Europe and the Middle East, the story is no different. 

Roughly 95% of all trucks in the Turkish market belong to individual owners. With 92% of all freight moved inland being on the highways, the Turkish market contends with inefficiencies that can be reduced with...

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Tech tracking: FourKites unveils dynamic ETA product for LTL shipments

FourKites launches ETA solution for LTL shipping

While Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its shipping partners like UPS (NYSE: UPS) and FedEx (NYSE: FDX) are able to tell customers where their package is at all times, the reality for most less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping is somewhat more complex. Multiple stops, drops and pickups, along with traffic and last-minute schedule changes impact the ability to provide narrow delivery windows for LTL customers.

Citing a data science breakthrough and the large volume of data from loads within its system,...

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