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Hyster-Yale Materials Handling
The century-old names on its forklifts are only the visible part. Hyster-Yale is rebuilding the machine behind the machines - mixing dealer service, automation, telemetry and cleaner power into a business that follows goods from port crane to warehouse rack.
Haulio
Haulio is a Singapore-based logistics technology company that digitises container haulage - the first-mile trucking that moves shipping containers between ports and warehouses. Its platform connects shippers, freight forwarders and logistics firms to a regional alliance of about 800 trucking companies and roughly 10,000 first-mile vehicles, coordinating container movements, real-time tracking, billing and financing across Southeast Asia. Founded in 2017 by Alvin Ea and Sebastian Shen, the company is backed by PSA unboXed, Temasek's Heliconia Capital, ComfortDelGro and others.
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.
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.