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DB Schenker signs deal with uShip to use online freight platform
GERMAN logistics firm DB Schenker has signed a five-year exclusive partnership deal in Europe with US-based online freight shipping marketplace uShip to create a platform providing a web-based load-matching service for the company's 25,000 approved European land transport "partners".
The European forwarding and logistics giant, which is part of Deutsche Bahn AG, declined to clarify how much it would spend setting up its new suite of mobile digital services with uShip, but said it "had invested millions" and the deal would eventually be worth "tens of millions", according to Lloyd's Loading List.
The uShip marketplace platform, which Schenker claimed had been successful at matching shippers with carriers in over 19 countries, enables freight transport decisions and transactions via mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and will initially be rolled out across DB Schenker's European land transport division.
A spokesman for the company said: "We are getting a proved and tested technique, which especially works very well with mobile devices, while we provide the carrier-network. The cooperation enables us to be a lot faster, since we don't have to develop software but can use a very good one on the market."
The goal of the partnership, according to Schenker, is to harness new digital innovations that get freight moving faster and more efficiently, helping optimize services for customers and partners.
Starting in late 2016, the company will launch its own 'Drive4Schenker' online platform, which will use the uShip software platform to match drivers and cargo, enabling Schenker-approved transport partners to find additional cargo along their routes in real time.
'Drive4Schenker' will start in Germany and other selected European countries, with the entire European land transport network to be integrated step by step. The result will be smart, real-time web-based management of all the types of freight in European land transport, across all the stations transport orders pass through," said Schenker. "Carrier reviews, pricing, quote comparisons and complete transport monitoring and processing will also be included.
The European forwarding and logistics giant, which is part of Deutsche Bahn AG, declined to clarify how much it would spend setting up its new suite of mobile digital services with uShip, but said it "had invested millions" and the deal would eventually be worth "tens of millions", according to Lloyd's Loading List.
The uShip marketplace platform, which Schenker claimed had been successful at matching shippers with carriers in over 19 countries, enables freight transport decisions and transactions via mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets and will initially be rolled out across DB Schenker's European land transport division.
A spokesman for the company said: "We are getting a proved and tested technique, which especially works very well with mobile devices, while we provide the carrier-network. The cooperation enables us to be a lot faster, since we don't have to develop software but can use a very good one on the market."
The goal of the partnership, according to Schenker, is to harness new digital innovations that get freight moving faster and more efficiently, helping optimize services for customers and partners.
Starting in late 2016, the company will launch its own 'Drive4Schenker' online platform, which will use the uShip software platform to match drivers and cargo, enabling Schenker-approved transport partners to find additional cargo along their routes in real time.
'Drive4Schenker' will start in Germany and other selected European countries, with the entire European land transport network to be integrated step by step. The result will be smart, real-time web-based management of all the types of freight in European land transport, across all the stations transport orders pass through," said Schenker. "Carrier reviews, pricing, quote comparisons and complete transport monitoring and processing will also be included.
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