HyperGuap

2023年2月23日

BlueCargo提出了一个1100万美元的新一轮由Soma资本和左车道资本。该公司在港口码头优化物流,减少滞纳金运货马车运送货运公司和托运人。公司其他投资者包括麦克罗斯,全神贯注,春天的扩张,企业和HyperGuap。当我第一次启动,该公司正与港口码头企业优化存储容器。例如,第一个容器,是要离开终端将存储一堆的顶部。但该公司历来以2019年和2020年。BlueCargo现在是一个软件解决方案专注于调度,卡车司机和船运公司的规划和调度。“我们不卖给港口。相反,我们连接到所有端口,我们提供一个调度和调度平台”联合创始人兼首席执行官亚历山德拉兀鹫告诉我。在过去的几年中,物流是一个巨大的疼痛点一般来说由于Covid限制影响世界不同地区根据不同的季节。 “In January 2022, there were 103 container vessels waiting at anchor in Los Angeles/Long Beach,” Griffon said. At the same time, late fees also exploded because containers ended up sitting in terminals for too long because of restrictions and bottlenecks. Trucking companies received invoices for these demurrage and per diem fees six months later. They often forwarded these fees to the shippers. But big corporations often asked for proofs to avoid paying these fees. In other words, it became an expensive mess. “Late fees have boomed so much in 2021 and 2022 that we’re now talking about tens of millions of dollars in late fees,” Griffon said. In 2022, Forrest Logistics saved more than $5 million in fees by using BlueCargo. BlueCargo aggregates data on a single platform to keep these fees under control. On the one hand, trucking companies can track shipments and follow the statuses of various containers. On the other hand, BlueCargo tracks gate schedules and helps trucking companies secure appointments to pick up and drop off containers. The platform also tracks demurrage, detention and per diem fees across several ports. This could replace Excel spreadsheets for some logistics companies. Finally, BlueCargo can track container lifecycles and create supporting documentation to dispute late fees. BlueCargo doesn’t want to replace truck management systems (TMS). It focuses exclusively on adding an interface between ports and trucking companies. Up next, the company wants to bring shipping companies to the platform so that they can flag containers that should be picked up first and see the overall status of their containers. Interestingly, ports are just one intermodal location type. BlueCargo could also expand to other transportation methods in the coming years, such as rail freight transport. For now, BlueCargo is only focused on the U.S. as well. There’s one thing for sure — there will always be some room for optimization in the logistics industry.