Transporeon Unveils 2025 Carrier and Shipper Findings

Ulm, Germany, December 12, 2024 — Transporeon, a Trimble company, has announced its annual Transportation Pulse Report, which unveils key developments that will shape the transportation and logistics sector in 2025. More than 100 European and North American supply chain and logistics executives from Transporeon’s shipper and carrier customers were surveyed, in addition to members of Indago’s supply chain research community.

Ulm, Germany, 19 September 2024 — Transporeon, a Trimble company, announces two new platform solutions, Yard Arrival Monitor and Freight Audit SelfService, that use the power of connected data to address significant challenges for shippers and carriers in yard management and freight invoicing.

Ulm, Germany, 3 September — Transporeon, a Trimble Company, today announced its expansion into the transportation logistics sector in Turkey and the appointment of a seasoned, local-language country manager to lead its operations and services in the country. 

Ulm, Germany and Vienna, Austria, 11 June 2024 — Transporeon, a Trimble company, and premier rail logistics company ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) have announced an expanded collaboration by adding new corridors to their joint offering. The announcement follows the companies' joint win of the Austrian Logistics Prize 2024, awarded by the Austrian Logistics Network Association (VNL) on 5 June.

Ulm, Germany, 29 April, 2024 — Transporeon, a Trimble Company, has released “The 2024 Green Freight Report: Is Transportation on Track?” The report covers the road freight sector’s decarbonisation efforts and priorities as an information source for scenario planning, decarbonisation strategies, target setting and action planning.

Ulm, 15 April 2024 — Transporeon, a Trimble Company, has joined the Virtual Watch Tower Network (VWTnet). A digital platform delivering collective intelligence from multiple industry players, VWTnet improves collaboration and visibility in global supply chains and modernises disruption management.

Ulm, March 26, 2024 — Transporeon, a Trimble Company, announced today that Beiersdorf AG has transformed its transport operations by implementing an end-to-end ocean booking and shipment management system via Transporeon’s Transportation Management Platform. The solution enables global collaboration between multiple parties, by providing a unified platform, which encompasses all elements of a complex shipping transaction. This reduces errors, saves resources, and eliminates the issue of incompatible IT systems.

Ulm, 25 January 2023 – Winmore, the leader in tender management pricing and process optimization, and Transporeon, a leading transportation management platform, today announced a new business cooperation agreement. Transporeon’s Market Insights data will be directly available to logistics service providers and carriers within the Winmore platform, delivering competitive intelligence about lane-level pricing strategies and enabling higher win rates and increased operational efficiency.

Ulm, 19 September 2023 – Transporeon, a leading Transportation Management Platform and a Trimble Company (NASDAQ: TRMB), announced today the launch of Freight Marketplace, a neutral (of equal benefit to both shippers and carriers) deal-making hub for freight procurement.

Ulm, 19 September 2023 – Transporeon, a leading Transportation Management Platform and a Trimble Company (NASDAQ: TRMB), announced today new platform innovations that enhance its spot quotation, contract rate benchmarking and freight audit capabilities. With a robust network of 1,400+ shippers and retailers and 150,000+ carriers and logistic service providers, Transporeon’s neutral (of equal benefit to both shippers and carriers) Transportation Management Platform (TMP) enables companies to simplify collaboration, streamline internal operations and embrace new business opportunities.

London, 12 June 2023 – Transporeon, a leading transportation management platform and a Trimble Company (NASDAQ: TRMB), in collaboration with RNE RailNetEurope today announced the launch of the EU Ukraine Visibility Map. The Visibility Map is the first large-scale European-wide tool that provides an end-to-end view of key rail corridors in and out of Ukraine.

WESTMINSTER, Colo., April 3, 2023—Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Transporeon. As a leading cloud-based transportation management platform, Transporeon provides modular applications that power a global network for more than 150,000 carriers and 1,400 shippers and retailers with an integrated suite of best-in-class sourcing, planning, execution, monitoring and settlement tools. 

Ulm, 28 March 2023 – Leading Transportation Management Platform Transporeon today announced a raft of platform innovations. Fully integrated into its neutral platform that serves the entire industry, the new capabilities will help its network of +1,400 shippers and +158,000 carriers and logistic service providers to enhance adaptability, collaboration and sustainability, enabling them to thrive in today’s world in motion.

Vienna, Ulm, 15 March 2023 – ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) and Transporeon, the leading Transportation Management Platform, announce their cooperation. Europe's leading rail logistics player and the globally established platform will benefit equally from the unique partnership by integrating RCG’s offerings and services on the Transporeon platform. Existing and new customers will profit from the strategic collaboration through a range of features that will be successively tested, expanded and rolled out on the Transporeon platform.

WESTMINSTER, Colo., December 12, 2022 – Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Transporeon, a leading cloud-based transportation management software platform, in an all-cash transaction valued at €1.88 billion. Transporeon’s software platform provides modular applications that power a global network for 145,000 carriers and 1,400 shippers and load recipients with an integrated suite of best-in-class sourcing, planning, execution, monitoring and settlement tools. Trimble will acquire Transporeon from Hg, a leading software and services investor and current majority shareholder in the business.

Ulm, 28 November 2022 – Supply chains have always been defined by uncertainty. This has remained the case in 2022. From rising inflation to labour strikes and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, this year has certainly thrown up its fair share of challenges and disruptions.

Ulm, 18 August 2022 – Transporeon, the leading Transportation Management Platform, announced today the acquisition of Tracks, a Berlin-based start-up with the mission to decarbonise the transport industry. Founded in 2018, Tracks is a carbon visibility tool providing data solutions to monitor and manage carbon emissions across all transport modes. To do this, the company uses AI-based analytics and prediction tools to enable shippers, carriers and logistics service providers to collect and optimise emissions data at source.

Ulm, 28 July 2022 – Transporeon, Europe’s leading Transportation Management Platform, and Schmitz Cargobull, Europe’s leading manufacturer of trailers, have announced a partnership that will provide Schmitz Cargobull’s customers an easy and secure data connection to Transporeon’s real-time visibility solution. This Connectivity is made possible by the new Schmitz Cargobull TrailerConnect® Data Management Center and enhances visibility and control over transport data.

Ulm, Germany, 25 July – After successful Alpha and Beta stages, Transporeon – Europe’s leading Transportation Management Platform – rolls out its pioneering Carbon Visibility tool to all customers worldwide. Through an automatic update on the Transporeon platform, every Transporeon customer will now have access to functionality that can transparently and efficiently measure, reduce, report and benchmark the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from their transports.  This value-added service is provided as an integral part of all transports executed and processed via Transporeon and is accessible to all customers on our platform.

Ulm, Germany, 28 June 2022 – “Calling all logistics players across Europe, your help is needed”, that is the rallying cry from Transporeon, ALICE and the European Commission. With 25 million tons of grain and other agricultural goods held in storage due to the supply chain disruptions as a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a gargantuan effort by the collective logistics industry is needed to get these goods back on the road and rail again. 

Ulm, 22 June 2022 – Freight forwarders are experts in their areas of the freight industry and have a vision of how the industry can be optimised. To set this vision in motion, Transporeon is thrilled to launch Freight Matching for Forwarders to boost their operational know-how and drive a digital revolution in the freight forwarding industry.

11 April 2022 — Sustainability is one of the most important and complex challenges facing the world today. Yet, 28% of supply chain companies still don’t have a sustainability strategy in place, according to “Real-Time Visibility and Sustainability in Europe’s Logistics Sector”, a Europe-wide survey of more than 200 supply chain stakeholders from Sixfold by Transporeon and Transport Intelligence (Ti). A further 20% have a sustainability strategy that is less than two years old, highlighting the general lack of maturity across the industry.

Ulm, 4 April, 2022 — Transporeon, Europe’s leading Transport Management Platform, has launched the Beta version of its Carbon Visibility dashboard designed to help shippers and carriers precisely, transparently and efficiently measure and benchmark their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from transports. The methodology is fully compliant with the GLEC (Global Logistics Emissions Council) framework, the highest and latest standard for the calculation of GHG within logistics.

Ulm, Germany, March 7, 2022 – Transporeon, Europe's leading transport management platform, has announced a partnership with Blue Yonder, a world leader in digital supply chain and omni-channel commerce fulfilment, to offer real-time visibility to their joint customers. Through the partnership, Transporeon’s real-time visibility solution – Sixfold by Transporeon – will provide much-needed access to real-time data for Blue Yonder’s Transportation Management Solution (TMS) customers, delivering precise shipment ETAs to shippers, carriers, and end customers.

Kleinostheim, Germany, 24 February 2022 – UTA Edenred, a leading European mobility service provider and an Edenred company, and Transporeon, Europe’s leading Transport Management Platform, have joined forces as part of a sales cooperation. From now on, Transporeon offers its European network of carriers a specially created UTA Full Service co-branded card. This card gives Transporeon customers access to UTA’s acceptance network and its comprehensive product and service portfolio.

Ulm, 22 February 2022 — Transporeon expands its Real Time Yard Management (RTYM) solution with a new smart re-planning feature, which enables warehouse workers and managers to instantly react to short-term changes on the day of delivery or pickup. Customers can now effectively re-plan scheduled appointments (time slot bookings) to another time and/ or another location on any given day. The re-planning feature saves costs caused by waiting times and prevents poorly synchronized assets and ineffective dock planning.

Ulm, 17 January 2022 — Transporeon and Adrian Gonzalez, President of Adelante SCM and Founder of Talking Logistics, just published the Transportation Pulse Report 2022. In light of the capacity shortages and delays within global logistics due to the COVID-19 crisis, the report identifies solutions for rebuilding trust in the supply chain. It combines quantitative insights from more than 280 shippers, carriers and 3PLs with the opinions of industry experts. A rising number of logistics professionals (25% compared to 18% in 2020) believe that there exists “very large” room for improvement in the way transportation processes are designed and managed. Another 48% of respondents see “large” room for improvement (compared to 47% in 2020).

Already today, Transporeon offers comprehensive carrier services ranging from Market Intelligence, RTV on Ocean, Air and Road-transport, to autonomous freight procurement and document management. With the acquisition of Nexogen, the company enlarges its carrier service portfolio even further by introducing the AI Planner and the Fleet Operator.  

With the addition of SupplyStack we continue to build the world’s most comprehensive Transportation Management Platform for efficiently moving freight across the globe in a sustainable and cost-efficient way. SupplyStack’s smart Transportation Management apps extend our capabilities into multimodal and part load transports and give our network of connected shippers, freight forwarders and LSPs the tools they need to survive in today’s logistics world of exceptions. 

Ulm / Hong Kong, 11 January 2022 – Transporeon, Europe’s largest transport market intelligence, freight procurement and management platform, announces partnership with Freightos, the global freight booking platform, integrating data from the Freightos Baltic Index, the world’s only daily, externally audited and data-driven global container freight index. By integrating up-to-date spot data into Transporeon´s extensive air cargo and ocean freight logistics data, Transporeon now offers the most powerful suite of market intelligence for shippers. All industry verticals can now benefit from these insights.

With the addition of Logit One we will be able to offer transport execution and visibility solutions across all transport modes, delivering a one platform approach where all users benefit from the integration of Ocean Visibility data including a control tower to allow a bird´s eye view of all their shipments. In addition, multimodal planning functionalities will help utilize the available capacity and help reduce the environmental impact.

Ulm, 23 November 2021 – Transporeon announces that it will become climate neutral within the next three months. The company offers technology with a purpose that enables its customers to operate more sustainably. For example, Transporeon can help them make their CO2 consumption more visible with the new ‘Transporeon Carbon Visibility’ dashboard. In this context, the European Union's 'Fit for 55' climate policy will apply carbon certificate trading to the transport sector from 2026 and require companies to set up an objective and efficient reporting system. 

Ulm, 23 November 2021 – As of 2026, the European Union’s climate policy “Fit for 55” will apply carbon trading to the transport sector. Objective reporting will have direct impact on business. In logistics, however, analysing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) across different modes of transport can be like comparing apples with oranges.

Ulm, 2 November 2021 — Boehringer Ingelheim was the first pharmaceutical company to fully outsource its operative tender management process to Transporeon in 2020. One year later, the benefits of this step have become clearly visible. In the current volatile market situation characterized by fluctuating prices, Boehringer Ingelheim was able to quadruple its logistics tenders (one per quarter instead of one per year) and ensure the robustness of its logistics processes. At the same time, Boehringer Ingelheim retains full control of all strategic decisions: the schedule, the scope of the tender, and the pool of service providers are managed by the pharmaceutical company itself.

Ulm, 20 October 2021 — Europe's leading digital freight platform Transporeon announces the closing of its strategic investment into ZeKju. By joining forces, Transporeon and ZeKju will offer digital, yet app-free and GDPR-compliant communication to facilitate exchange between shippers, carriers and logistics service providers.

BOSTON, ULM, 14 November, 2021 — Leading in-transit visibility provider Tive and Transporeon, a leading digital freight platform that powers the largest global freight network of 1,300 shippers, 100 retailers and 130,000 logistic service providers and carriers with its real-time visibility solution Sixfold are entering into a partnership. By integrating data and insights beyond shipment location and condition, the new partnership will provide mutual customers with insights that deliver a better end-customer experience through a single source where appropriate.

SANTA CLARA, CA and ULM, GERMANY, October 13, 2021: A sensor-driven supply chain visibility leader, Roambee, and the leading digital freight platform Transporeon announced their partnership to bring the best of both worlds in real-time transport visibility: carrier telematics visibility through Transporeon Visibility and high-fidelity, real-time multimodal shipment visibility and intelligence via Roambee’s platform.