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WOF Summit 2022 takes place in Vienna

Posted on 18 March, 20227 August, 2025 by David Priestman

Visit WOF Summit 2022, the most innovative and informative logistics congress, which will take place this coming May at the Marriott Hotel in Vienna. Get the most up-to-date market insights into logistics, transportation and supply chain management. Discover newly available solutions and meet with industry peers for your competitive advantage, all while supporting a good cause at the WOF Connect & Charity evening gala.

Supply Chain and Logistics are evolving as we go, and the recent global developments prove that the industry needs to prepare for the unpredictable. Oil and gas prices are skyrocketing, other commodities follow closely, inflation is at an all-time high and transport costs have risen steeply. Economic and ecological aspects now go hand in hand, more than ever before. How can Green Deal initiatives not only save the planet, but create supply chain security and ease cost pressures? Green Washing was yesterday, today only results count!

Digitalisation, if implemented in a smart way, is another competitive advantage, not only for the booming E-Commerce sector, but for all aspects in the supply chain. Join the discussion with leading industry experts about pragmatic best practices solutions that support your business even in an unpredictable global environment.

Despite all the technological developments, logistics is still a people focused business, and the whole industry is fighting for the smartest minds. The organisers of WOF Summit Vienna 2022 have teamed up with top logistics and supply chain universities in the CEE region to get insights from supply chain students on their visions and expectations from the market in order to create a roadmap for the logistics leadership of tomorrow.

At WOF Summit Vienna 2022, networking is not just having a coffee with another interesting participant, but is powered by the innovative 1to1 Meeting Scheduler for all participants. Pre-arrange your most valuable business meetings with a few clicks in the two weeks before the event, and have the best industry discussions for your personal needs.

On top of this, take part in the WOF Connect & Charity evening programme which is not only about networking, but also about connecting business with charity to help those who need it most. Let’s make a difference at WOF Summit Vienna 2022, where a portion of selected ticket proceeds, and 50% of the evening charity sponsorship package will go to Österreichischen Krebshilfe, towards helping cancer patients and their families.

Whether it is Trucking, Air and Sea Freight, Warehousing, Intermodal Solutions, E-Commerce, Last Mile Challenges or overall Digitalisation and Environmental aspects in the Supply Chain – with top speakers and up to 500 visitors, you will definitely meet the right high-profile counterpart for your business success at the WOF SUMMIT VIENNA 2022.

Do not miss your chance to be part of this essential logistics event and its stimulating programme on 4th and 5th of May 2022, at Marriott Hotel, Vienna.

transport logistic and TIACA organise joint San Francisco event

Posted on 8 March, 2022 by Keith McKinley

From 22 to 25 March 2022, the global air cargo and logistics industry will meet at the 2+2 event in San Francisco. The air cargo sector proved to be a safeguard for global supply chains during the pandemic and secured the supply of important medical and industrial goods. At the face-to-face event, leading industry representatives and experts will discuss the lessons learned from the pandemic and other current topics such as digitalisation, sustainability, and UAVs directly in Silicon Valley. Registrations among exhibitors, visitors and sponsors are already high.

Messe München and the air cargo association TIACA are merging their events for the first time. The 2+2 event will be one of the largest gatherings of experts and decision-makers in the air cargo and logistics industry. A two-day conference programme at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco will feature panel discussions, keynotes, workshops, and presentations.

In addition to the air cargo sector’s experiences and insights from the pandemic, topics such as digitalisation, sustainability as well as gender diversity or UAV technologies will also be discussed. The future of the industry will also be addressed: TIACA board member Steven Polmans, for example, will moderate a panel discussion on the future direction of the association. The subsequent two-day Innovation Journey gives visitors direct and on-site insights at innovation leaders and up-and-coming Silicon Valley start-ups.

The number of exhibitors, speakers, sponsors, and trade visitors is already high and the anticipation is rising among everyone involved. Patrik Tschirch, Managing Director of LUG air cargo handling and Chairman of the Board of Air Cargo Community Frankfurt, also sees the advantages of a presence event: “For the globally active air cargo sector, an international gathering is enormously important. Thanks to the promising concept, we are looking forward to the 2+2 event in San Francisco with great confidence.”

An original date for the event in September 2021 was postponed as a precaution due to the pandemic at the time. The current COVID-regulations and the full implementation of applicable protective measures in the state of California allow the event to take place in the usual attendance form.

There will be no restrictions on the number of visitors. Since last November, the United States has allowed foreign citizens to enter the country if they are fully vaccinated and present a negative COVID-19 test or proof of recovery recognised by the WHO.

“The TIACA Executive Summit, together with the transport logistic Americas Forum, will once again bring together the key decision makers and experts in the air cargo industry in one place, live and in person. We look forward to a wide-ranging conference programme and accompanying exhibition where current and upcoming air cargo topics will be discussed with a broad audience,” said Steven Polmans, Chairman of the TIACA Board of Directors and Vice President Business Development & Free Zone Regulatory Affairs at Abu Dhabi Airports.

“With the 2+2 event in San Francisco, we can again offer the airfreight and logistics industry an intensive exchange in presence. With various online events, we have proven that such events can also take on other attractive formats. However, personal contact on site is indispensable, especially for an industry like logistics and airfreight with its many diverse and international players. We are glad to be able to offer our guests this opportunity again, while observing all safety precautions,” adds Dr. Robert Schönberger, Head of transport logistic exhibitions at Messe München.

Logistics Business Show – register to visit for free NOW!

Posted on 25 June, 20217 August, 2025 by David Priestman

Logistics Business organises a twice-yearly international, virtual exhibition for the logistics and materials handling industry. The Logistics Business Show provides an important new platform for interaction between suppliers and users of logistics, IT, transport and supply chain services, warehousing and materials handling.

The exhibition virtual marketplace enables visitors to source products online, request quotations, meet exhibitors on video calls and chats, network, download documents and watch the conference. The next event will be held on 20-24th September, and features a conference and 70 exhibitors.

The Exhibition Hall will have six themes:

Forklift & AGV Technology
Handling Automation Systems
Packaging & Pallets
Software & Computing
Transport Services & Equipment
Warehousing Equipment

Visitors will be able to shuffle through the hall and search for specific requirements from a filtered list of categories. Exhibitors already confirmed include Rite-Hite, Panasonic, 6 River Systems, Michelin, Geek+, Interroll, Tennant, Datalogic, Gebhardt, Forbo, Locus, Descartes and Denso.

Roundtable Panel Discussions

Hosted by Logistics Business magazine Editor Paul Hamblin, September’s Panel Discussion Roundtables are on the following themes:

Forklifts and DC Vehicles: No Diesel, No Driver?
Tomorrow’s Forklifts Explored
IT Hardware: Rugged Mobility for Pick & Track
Loading Bay: Efficient Dock Operations
Logistics: The 2030 Logistics Landscape – Crystal ball time
Materials Handling: Intralogistics Projects and Innovations
Packaging: When Waste is not a dirty word
Robotics: Collaboration or Conflict? Who Wins When Humans and Robots Meet?
Software: Top 10 Buzzwords – What They Mean and How They Grow Your Business
Transport & Forwarding: Winning the Friction Fight
Warehouse Automation: Lights Out? The Future of Warehousing

Contact the Logistics Business Show team to book your stand now

Show@logisticsbusiness.com

UK Tel: +44 (0)1480 455660

Follow this link to register for free, and find out our further information: https://www.logisticsbusinessshow.com/

Transporeon Carrier Convention 2021 kicks off

Posted on 18 June, 2021 by Keith McKinley

Transporeon has kicked off its largest event and convention for the audience of carriers, 3PL and 4PL operators and forwarders. During the 5-day online event (17-23 June), Transporeon will announce and present products and services that help carriers to improve collaboration with shippers, freight forwarders and other carriers and, with this, helps them to drive their economic and ecological efficiency.

The agenda revolves around three main themes that are business critical in an increasingly connected world and changing business environment: smart data network services, connectivity, and real-time insights.

Transporeon Insights

Transporeon has one of the richest datasets globally. More than €45bn worth of freight went through the different parts of its platform last year. It is an invaluable resource that can help make logistics more efficient to the benefit of all involved parties.

With Transporeon Insights the company announces a new advanced analytics and market intelligence tool that allows to make informed, data-driven pricing (buy/sell) decisions by providing near real-time visibility on the contract and spot pricing as well as capacity market development. This new tool helps to create further transparency on the European FTL market enabling better-informed procurement strategies for shippers as well as increased asset profitability for carriers.

Transporeon Insights will be made available for all market participants in September 2021 starting with beta customers from June.

Transporeon Autonomous Procurement

Transporeon extends its product offering into the field of autonomous procurement with the recent acquisition of TNX Logistics. With Transporeon Autonomous Procurement, forwarders are now able to achieve significant improvements in their spot buying strategies. The product supports autonomous procurement for up to 90% of road spot freight.

It assists with pricing, negotiating, and assigning spot freight to best fitting carries. Carriers benefit, as they save time because they receive targeted offers and can optimally load their trucks by just accepting offers instead of negotiating and waiting for assignments.

Strategic partnership with ZeKju

Transporeon announces a strategic partnership with ZeKju and will also be a minority investor in ZeKju, a platform that enables digital communication in the road transport industry.

Combining commonly used consumer messengers with value-adding features like translation, ZeKju provides a simple way to digitalize communication in road transport. In contrast to app-based communication solutions, ZeKju requires neither truck drivers nor dispatchers to install any new software. As such, it is the perfect tool for small and mid-sized carriers to digitalise their operations.

“We share Transporeon’s vision to support the road transport industry with state-of-the-art, pragmatic digitalisation services. And we strongly believe that Transporeon is a perfect partner to make ZeKju available to a large number of carriers,” says Dr. Hendrik Rosenboom, founder of ZeKju.

Visibility Data Centre

With the new Visibility Data Centre, carriers now have one central place to manage all their activities regarding onboarding their fleet and building a virtual subcontractor network. The Visibility Data Centre also provides the carrier dispatchers the possibility to allocate assets on an upcoming transport. It ensures correct master data collection and allows the carriers’ customers to receive real-time visibility throughout the transport.

In addition to the onboarding of subcontractors and connecting their own and the subcontractor’s fleet, carriers can benefit from the ‘Fleet Viewer’, which consolidates a mixed fleet providing one single overview of the carrier’s asset pool. This gives the dispatcher transparent insights into available capacity across their fleet.

Furthermore, dispatchers will be able to communicate directly with the carries utilizing the ZeKju technology. And since real-time visibility is becoming an industry requirement, the carriers can easily share data on transport level through Sixfold’s ‘OVD’ (Open Visibility Data). This way they can ensure data is shared on transport level rather than on fleet level. The Visibility Data Centre is therefore perfect as a daily work tool for carriers.

New Carrier Business Unit at Transporeon

As of 1st July 2021, Gruziana Hoxha will join Transporeon as Executive Director for Carrier Management, signalling the next stage of the company’s evolution to a more carrier centric organisation.

“It is a great pleasure to welcome Gruziana to the Transporeon Group. In her new role she will build and lead our new Carrier Business Unit and further develop the products and services we deliver to the carrier community on our platform,” says Stephan Sieber, CEO Transporeon. “Over the last years already, Transporeon has increasingly invested in developing carrier-centric services, with products like carrier premium account and carrier trust centre, a growing portfolio of turn-key integration tools for most common carrier applications as well as advanced onboarding and support processes.

“Therefore, building a new Carrier Business Unit is the logical next step for us to further drive our growing product portfolio that is focused on helping carriers grow their business and also support them in their carbon emissions reduction goals.”

Gruziana Hoxha adds: “After almost 10 years of experience in the supply chain industry, leading, developing and scaling diverse teams in multi-national and fast-growing companies like Fercam, Uber Freight and most recently Sennder, and with my passion for the digitalisation in the global logistics and transportation industry, I am absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to build the carrier organisation at Transporeon.”

Carrier of the Year Awards

The Carrier Convention will close with the premier of the Transporeon Carrier Award Ceremony which celebrates the six winners for the “Carrier of the Year Awards”. These awards recognise outstanding customer commitment and high transparency regarding transport performance.

Registrations for the Carrier Convention are still open. It’s not too late to register here.

More than 150 exhibitors confirmed for ITT Hub

Posted on 8 June, 2021 by Keith McKinley

More than 150 of the UK’s most innovative transport companies as well as key government departments and agencies will be showcasing their cutting-edge services, products, strategies and ideas at the free-to-attend Innovation & Technology in Transport – ITT Hub event, to be held at Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre on 30 June and 1 July 2021.

The largest show of its kind in 40 years, the exhibition will include a substantial Government Hub, where key departments – including the Department for International Trade, Department for Transport, APC, Zemo Partnership, Innovate UK, Zenzic and Highways England – will be on-hand to share expert insight into the full range of government assistance available for transport companies. Manufacturers, including BYD, Volta Trucks, Fiat, Ford, DAF Trucks and Arrival, will be showcasing their ground-breaking vehicles, infrastructure and technology at the event, and more than 30 speakers will be presenting at Logistics UK’s Future Logistics Conference, including British Astronaut Major Tim Peake CMG.

Kevin Green, Marketing & Communications Director at Logistics UK, comments: “Connection and collaboration are central to the new green industrial revolution; we are thrilled that visitors to ITT Hub will have the opportunity to explore the huge diversity of resources available to support the government’s green strategy.”

Mark Griffin, CEO at ITT Hub, adds: “Along with key central, local and regional government agencies, visitors to the event will have access to innovative manufacturers and service providers from across the road transport sector, including the latest bus, coach, truck and van technology. We really encourage visitors to register now for this free event and reconnect!”

ITT Hub will also feature a Regional Transport Bodies Hub, where visitors will have the opportunity to meet representatives from six Sub-National Transport Bodies (SNTBs): England’s Economic Heartland, Midlands Connect, Peninsula Transport, Transport East, Transport for the South East, and Western Gateway.