2023 was a big year for Transporeon, most notably because we officially joined the Trimble family. In the first quarter, we celebrated two decades of partnership with Kronospan, launched a case study with ArcelorMittal, hosted our third Logistics Sustainability Month and partnered with ÖBB Rail Cargo Group to offer rail logistics services on our platform. Finally we launched a number of new products, including Transport Operations, Autonomous Quotation, Freight Audit, Digital Transport Documents and Freight Marketplace, in addition to releasing a  variety of new features and product updates. The second quarter started with the completion of our acquisition by Trimble in April, followed by our return to transport logistic in Munich after a long, pandemic-related absence. We also launched an enhanced version of the rail transport visibility map between the EU and Ukraine. The third quarter saw the 14 year anniversary of our partnership with Ritex Logistics in July. We kicked off the final quarter of 2023 with our flagship event, Transporeon Summit, in Spain while rounding out the year with our annual Pulse Report, showing the most important trends for the industry.

In January 2022 Transporeon kicked off the year with a strategic partnership with Freightos, the global freight booking platform, adding key data feeds to extend its market intelligence reach and depth. Later in the year an alliance with UTA Edenred introduced the availability of a co-branded fuel card to Transporeon’s community of operators. Innovation was in full flow during the year with the launch of Carbon Visibility, additional capability added to Real Time Yard Management and the introduction of Freight Matching for Forwarders. Two further acquisitions took place early in the year with the addition of SupplyStack, a key player in transportation management, and Nexogen, a leading operative in the LSP market for fleet optimisation. Then later in the year Transporeon acquired Tracks, a start up focused on sustainability with a key product offering sophisticated carbon calculation algorithms. To end a busy year Transporeon announced that Trimble, an industrial technology company transforming the way the world works, were to acquire them to strengthen and accelerate their connect and scale strategy, particularly in their transportation division.

In January Transporeon partners with Peripass to offer enhanced Yard Management solutions and bridge the gap between the road and the loading dock. At the same time, Real-time Yard Management enters the pilot phase. Combining Time Slot Management with Real-Time Visibility information allows dynamic rebooking of time slots and provides a real-time view of yard activities. In June Transporeon acquired TNX Logistics. TNX provides autonomous spot freight procurement services. Their technology optimizes spot buying by reducing costs and increasing efficiency, with Artificial Intelligence leading pricing and decision-making. It is used by some of the largest and most demanding freight forwarders, brokers and shippers across five continents. This acquisition helps Transporeon by offering cost savings - through the use of advanced technology- to shippers and forwarders. This will allow them and current customers to save more than 7% on their usual spot freight costs. In the latter part of the year Transporeon further extended its partner network with several parties including Tive, a leading in-transit visibility provider, Roambee, a sensor-driven supply chain visibility leader and Zejku, a digital communications provider. In addition Transporeon advanced its sustainability initiatives with a commitment to climate neutrality and a focus on the Fit for 55 program. Finally in December, a further acquisition was made with LogitOne ensuring Transporeon’s future capability in ocean execution and visibility.

Transporeon celebrates its 20th anniversary. Today, the company is one of the world’s leading logistics platforms with almost 1,000 employees in 11 offices around the world all working towards the common purpose of bringing transportation in sync with the world. In March the company launches its new logistics portal Transporeon Insights including a dashboard view of the most recent data on its platform and their market intelligence work. This is further enriched with high-quality content such as eBooks, blog posts, videos and news content from media partners. In July Transporeon becomes a member of the European Technology Platform ALICE as the first TMS provider. The members of ALICE share the same ambition of making logistics in Europe more efficient and eco-friendly through constant innovation. In September Transporeon starts creating the largest visibility-enabled network and upgrades its network to make Real Time Visibility a standard for all their shipper and carrier customers. Also, in September, the company merges with ControlPay, the European leader in Freight Audit and Payment solutions.  

Transporeon is expanding its service offering and has entered a strategic partnership with Sixfold , a provider of real-time shipment tracking. Private investment company Hg, one of Europe’s most experienced software and growth investors, has invested in Transporeon Group. In November Transporeon reinforces the management team – Stephan Sieber becomes new CEO.

The leading German supplier for market intelligence solutions, Tim Consult,  joins the Group and expands big data and market intelligence offerings. With the start of the pilot phase of the “Connecting Load Agent”, Transporeon gives a first look at what logistics software can do in the area of predictive analytics.

Transporeon is once again one of the fastest-growing technology companies and has received several international awards for its successes. The growth course also continues in France with a new office in the La Défense quarter of Paris.

Transporeon places great value on comprehensive information security. Therefore, the company pursues its first DIN ISO/IEC 27001 certification for the Transporeon platform.

Transporeon appears for the first time in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems . The annually published reports are used for guidance in many industries worldwide when evaluating and selecting service providers.

Mercareon expands its product range with an evaluation module. Ticontract launches the powerful “combinatorial optimisation” function; Transporeon focuses on telematics and mobile services. According to global research and advisory firm Gartner, software-as-a-service revenues will total 21.3 billion dollars by the end of the year.

Ticontract adds freight invoice verification, a self-billing mode and benchmarking. Transporeon develops its first app, making real-time tracking of shipments possible. The workforce doubles within three years, and revenues again achieve double-digit growth.

The Transporeon Group has almost 250 employees, and opens offices and companies in Singapore. New functions from Transporeon are aimed at transparency for goods recipients and integration of transport documents. Facebook  now has 1 billion users worldwide.

Transporeon is awarded the “Technology Fast 50 Award” from Deloitte and is ranked 27th among the fastest-growing technology companies in Germany. Projects are carried out in the United States, Russia and China; an office is opened in Philadelphia.

The Transporeon Group hires its 150th staff member, meaning it has more than doubled in size within three years. Ticontract is expanded to include Rate Management. Instagram is available in the App Store and the first iPad makes its debut: Apple revolutionises the market once again.

The Group develops a new platform to meet the specific requirements of incoming delivery management at retail warehouses and distribution centres. The  name of this time slot management spin-off is Mercareon. Twitter is the Internet phenomenon of the year.

The Group rises to become one of the European logistics market leaders and is now successfully active in the Benelux countries, France, Great Britain and Italy. The 70 Transporeon employees celebrate the company’s nomination for the Deutscher Gründerpreis award for entrepreneurship. Over 3.7 million iPhones are sold in the first year.

Transporeon expands and successfully completes projects in Austria and Poland. This activity is followed by the founding of a subsidiary in Krakow to deal with business in Eastern Europe.  Media speculation over the planned launch of a mobile phone by Apple intensifies.

The Ticontract platform for electronic logistics tendering is born of a customer project and becomes a spin-off of Transporeon. The new platform’s team relocates to Kempten one year later. Author Tim O’Reilly coins the term Web 2.0.

Previously available Transporeon solutions for transport assignment are complemented by a system for managing loading and unloading on ramps; one of the first time slot management systems appears on the market. Mark Zuckerberg launches a predecessor of Facebook.

A few days after their final exams, the friends Axel Busch, Peter Förster, Roland Hötzl and Marc-Oliver Simon found the start-up Transporeon. The name is derived from "transport" and the ancient Greek word “emporeon” (marketplace).

During the same autumn that sees the launch of the first music file-sharing site Napster, and with the whole world intoxicated by the “new economy” and the dot-com bubble, four students in Ulm decide to set up their own business once their exams are over.