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Asset Management
November/December 2018
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H
amburg-based Cargonexx is one of the European
pioneers in the use of artifi cial intelligence in road
transport.
The truck transport company is currently working on the
development of intelligent algorithms that constantly recalculate
probabilities for transport capacities and automatically optimise
themselves. This allows future tours to be forecast independently by
the Cargonexx algorithm.
Countless empty kilometres and long waiting times for
transporters could soon be a thing of the past as a result of this
innovation and can be largely prevented by the work of Cargonexx,
the transport fi rm claims. The company has already received several
European prizes and awards for the development of the concept to
increase capacity utilisation towards predictive matching.
“Many systems are currently available in Europe for reducing
empty truck journeys,” says CEO Rolf-Dieter Lafrenz. “There are
digital freight forwarders, freight exchanges, transport platforms –
all have the same goal. But nobody goes as far and works as
radically on route optimisation as we do. We are building Europe’s
fi rst data-based intelligent transport network. Our work and vision
are paying off, as we have already received several awards for them
and are delighted about the Europe-wide appreciation and
recognition for our company.”
Self-learning algorithms and digitised process chains are the
foundation for predicting prices and capacities for truck tours in
seconds. Cargonexx is not only able to convince professional juries
and experts, more and more users are also relying on the data
technology and use of artifi cial intelligence. With its large transport
network, the Hamburg-based company is getting closer to achieving
a lasting solution to the problem of capacity utilisation in the long
term. Over 5,000 transport companies with more than 70,000
trucks are currently registered on the platform. In this network,
quantities and capacities will be automatically predicted in the
future and merged into tour combinations. The aim is to achieve
minimum empty truck journeys throughout Europe by permanently
Cargonexx CEO Rolf-Dieter Lafrenz claims that
his fi rm’s intelligent algorithms could soon make
countless empty kilometres and long waiting
times for transporters a thing of the past
calculating the optimisation dependencies and automatically
adapting the tours in the network.
In March, the Cargonexx received the European Commission;s
award for the best mobility start-up in Europe for its innovative
business model. The Boston Consulting Group and Europcar were
also represented on the expert jury. Previously, Cargonexx received
the Spark Award – the German Digital Prize awarded by the
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business newspaper Handelsblatt and consulting company
McKinsey, the ‘Trail Blazers Award’ of newspaper Süddeutsche
Zeitung and the Polish Innovation Award for logistics companies.
Cargonexx was also the only European trucking start-up among the
fi nalists for the ‘Supply Chain Start-up Award Europe’.
Founded in Hamburg in 2016, Cargonexx now operates in
Germany, Austria, Denmark, Poland and the Baltic countries.
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