uShip Raises $25M Series D to Fund Next Wave of Logistics Automation

AUSTIN, Texas — (BUSINESS WIRE) — uShip, the online shipping marketplace and freight automation software provider, today announced the close of a $25M Series D round led by DB Schenker, one of the world’s largest logistics companies and an existing uShip partner. DB Schenker’s funding comes on the heels of unprecedented investment in logistics and supply… Read More

uShip sees growth in larger-than-parcel (LTP) market

By DC Velocity Staff  /  $26 billion freight sector includes unwieldy items such as furniture, boats, and motorcycles.  /   Logistics tech vendor uShip is adding to its tools for freight automation software and load bidding. The Austin, Texas-based online shipping marketplace and software vendor serves a range of consumers, enterprise businesses, and less-than-truckload (LTL)… Read More

uShip Sees 2016 Growth As Freight Automation Disrupts Logistics Landscape

Enterprise, SMBs, Consumers Seeking Faster, Easier, Cheaper Transport Find It With uShip AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–uShip, the online shipping marketplace and freight automation software provider, today announced several key milestones, as well as traction within its freight automation initiative serving enterprise customers, less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping customers and consumers within freight’s “forgotten” $26 billion larger-than-parcel (LTP) market…. Read More

Driverless trucks: Where they’ll work, where they won’t

by Sean Kilcarr, Executive Editor, Fleet Owner  /  Only in certain segments of the trucking industry will autonomous vehicle technology find a good fit, some argue.  / The mistake many make when predicting adoption rates for autonomous vehicle (AV) technology in the freight business is that trucking is not a “homogenous” industry, stressed Richard “Dick”… Read More

DB Schenker invests ‘millions’ in digital freight marketplace

by Mike King, Lloyd’s Loading List  /  Platform will provide web-based load-matching service for 25,000 Schenker-approved European land transport ‘partners’, including carrier reviews, pricing, quote comparisons, ‘and complete transport monitoring’  / DB Schenker has signed a five-year partnership agreement for exclusive collaboration in Europe with US-based online freight shipping marketplace uShip to create a platform… Read More

uShip Signs Exclusive Contract with DB Schenker to Automate Road Freight

Expanded uShip PRO platform fundamentally reinvents transportation management for enterprise shippers, freight brokers and 3PLs July 06, 2016 8:00 AM EDT AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–uShip, the online shipping marketplace and freight automation software provider, has partnered with DB Schenker, one of the world’s largest logistics companies, to power ‘Drive4Schenker,’ an online trucking platform launching later this year…. Read More

uShip Signs Exclusive Contract with DB Schenker to Automate Road Freight

by Heavy Duty Trucking, Truckinginfo.com staff writer  /  Online shipping and freight automation provider uShip has partnered with Germany-based global logistics company DB Schenker to power an online trucking platform launching later this year in Europe. The move helps uShip stand out in an increasingly crowded competitive arena, as high-visibility investors have helped launch so-called… Read More