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The 9 Million-Square-Foot Machine Behind the Stuff That Just Shows Up
Custom Goods Logistics has spent more than six decades turning the least glamorous moments in commerce - customs exams, crowded docks, awkward inventory and urgent freight - into one connected service. Its advantage is not a clever app. It is owning more of the handoffs where supply chains usually come apart.
PortPro
PortPro is a New Jersey-based software company that builds a drayage-specific operating platform - a transportation management system (TMS) purpose-built for the container trucking companies and freight brokers that move ocean containers between ports, rail yards and warehouses. Its drayOS platform handles order entry, dispatch, container tracking, appointment setting, billing and driver payments in one system, and in 2025 it layered on 'Jerry' and 'Helen,' agentic-AI teammates that dispatch loads, validate documents and generate invoices automatically. Founded by Michael Mecca, who grew up in the drayage business, PortPro raised a $12M Series A led by Avenue Growth Partners in 2023 and serves hundreds of drayage carriers and brokers across North America.
Terminal49
Terminal49 is a San Francisco Bay Area logistics software company that tracks ocean shipping containers in real time. It pulls status data directly from every major ocean carrier and every marine terminal in the US and Canada, standardizes it, and delivers it through a single dashboard and a developer-friendly API. Importers, freight forwarders, and drayage operators use it to know where their containers are, catch holds and delays early, and avoid demurrage and per-diem fees that pile up when boxes sit too long.
BlueCargo
BlueCargo is a logistics SaaS company that helps importers, freight forwarders, and drayage carriers monitor, forecast, and dispute the accessorial fees - demurrage, detention, and per diem - that pile up when shipping containers get stuck moving from port terminals to their first warehouse. Founded in 2018 by French engineers Alexandra Griffon and Laura Theveniau after they met near the Port of Oakland, the company aggregates data from North America's busiest container ports and uses AI to audit freight invoices and reclaim overcharges, having saved customers more than $175M in fees.
Nevoya
Nevoya is a San Francisco- and Los Angeles-based, fully electric freight carrier that pairs a fleet of zero-emissions trucks with a purpose-built, AI-orchestrated Transportation Management System. Rather than retrofitting legacy diesel software, Nevoya builds route optimization, load balancing, dynamic battery management, and charging schedules from the ground up for electric operations - and says the result already matches or beats diesel on cost and reliability in California. In its first six months it onboarded Fortune 500 shippers and leading 3PLs, and in July 2025 it raised a $9.3M seed round led by Lowercarbon Capital to expand across California and into Texas.
Cargomatic
Cargomatic is a digital freight marketplace and technology platform that connects shippers with local and regional trucking capacity in real time. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Long Beach, California, it specializes in drayage and short-haul freight - moving containers off ports and onto roads - alongside intermodal, full-truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), and white-glove delivery. By pairing a carrier mobile app with smart routing and bundling software, Cargomatic helps fill empty truck miles, speed cargo off congested docks, and give shippers visibility into shipments that traditionally lived on paper and phone calls.
KlearNow.AI
KlearNow.AI is a San Jose-based logistics-as-a-service company using AI and machine learning to digitize customs clearance, drayage and trade-document workflows. Its patented data-ingestion engine turns unstructured paperwork into compliant filings in seconds, and its platform now serves more than 1,000 organizations across the U.S., U.K., Canada, India, Spain and the Netherlands.