Ocean spot rates have surged more than 300% in five months, straining manufacturing supply chains, according to GEODIS President and CEO Laura Ritchie, who said cargo booked in March is still rolling …
Reindeer founder and CEO Yoav Naveh said at the Supply Chain AI Symposium in Chicago that enterprise AI agents are no longer won on model quality, arguing that large language models will become a comm…
The big-and-bulky last-mile delivery market is forecast to grow at roughly 5% annually through 2027, down from over 10% in the prior eight years, according to a joint report from Armstrong & Associate…
Intelligent Audit was named an honoree in the AI Solution Provider category at the FreightWaves AI Excellence in Supply Chain Awards for DeepDetectAI, a proprietary machine learning system that catche…
YMX Logistics reduced a grocery distributor's yard fleet by 36% using its Autonomous Yard Operating System (YOS), which applies AI to optimize yard operations. The system was honored in FreightWaves' …
HERE Technologies is boosting AI route optimization with a reasoning layer that explains decisions and suggests fixes, addressing the gap between planned routes and real-world execution. The company h…
Stuut CEO and cofounder Tarek Alaruri said on FreightWaves' 'What the Truck?!?' podcast that artificial intelligence is being used to automate busywork in accounts receivable for freight companies, no…
Armada's CFO Brian McGowan said the company's fuel hedging strategies saved clients nearly $9 million amid volatile fuel prices and inflation. The food and restaurant logistics firm uses comprehensive…
Marc Held, CEO of HOPTEK, an AI-native freight monetization platform, shared insights on successful freight tech exits, drawing from his track record with Green Screens and Turvo. Held is applying his…
Custom AI models tailored for individual logistics companies can slash execution costs by 70-80%, according to Sushanth Raman, CEO of Pallet. Raman argues that sovereign AI enhances data privacy and d…
Freight demand is split as consumer-centric sectors struggle while industrial demand for electrical goods, data centers, and batteries surges. Dr. Jason Miller from Michigan State University warns the…
Companies still treating AI like a tool instead of an employee are setting themselves up for costly failure, according to Lean Solutions Group CTO Alfonso Quijano, who declares that the AI experimenta…
A FreightWaves survey conducted in partnership with Kooner Fleet Management Solutions found that over 80% of fleet professionals have not adopted AI tools, despite citing them as the most helpful for …
C.H. Robinson has been called the most successful AI company in logistics, but analysts question whether its achievements stem from genuine AI innovation or strategic business restructuring, highlight…
CloneOps CEO David Bell said that truck drivers prefer interacting with AI agents for critical logistics updates, citing enhanced efficiency and accuracy in supply chain operations. Bell shared insigh…
FreightWaves announced the winners of its 2026 AI Excellence in Supply Chain Awards, honoring 15 companies across two categories following a record number of nominations.…
Logistics companies that built AI solutions for 'corner cases' rather than understanding business fundamentals saw their valuations drop from 'tens of millions' to zero after major AI model releases, …
Eric Rempel, Chief Innovation Officer at Redwood, warned at FreightWaves' AI Supply Chain Symposium on Wednesday that AI adoption in supply chain is approaching the Peak of Inflated Expectations and w…
Orderful CEO Erik Kiser says the company's AI-powered, self-service platform cuts electronic data interchange (EDI) onboarding from a year to weeks, with a goal of days or minutes. The platform, backe…
Waabi announced that its Waabi Driver software, trained exclusively on a Peterbilt 579, successfully drove a Volvo VNL Autonomous truck on highways and surface streets from the first mile without any …