CargoLine with Cargo Digital World for Digital Logistics Services

CargoLine, one of the leading groupage cooperations in Europe, founded the company Cargo Digital World (CDW) in January 2021. The new company develops disruptive digital services for the value creation network of logistics.

(Frankfurt/Paderborn) The goal of Cargo Digital World (CDW), based in Paderborn, is to offer technology-based logistics solutions that set new standards in customer centricity, efficiency, transparency, and sustainability. This was announced by representatives of CargoLine and CDW at a joint press conference. In CDW, CargoLine combines its operational strength with the innovative power and technological expertise of logistics start-ups.

Driving Digital Business Models

“Since 2017, CargoLine has been actively promoting digital business models in logistics, starting with a long-term collaboration with the founding incubator garage33 in Paderborn. Together, we have already created three start-ups. We are now bundling them in Cargo Digital World to optimally support and scale them there. In addition, CDW will develop further innovative logistics solutions, accompany them on their way to market maturity, and scale them. This way, as a medium-sized company, we are significantly shaping the future of the logistics industry,” explained Jörn Peter Struck, Chairman of the CargoLine Management Board.

Three Start-ups Launched

The three start-ups include the digital freight forwarder Cargoboard, which has been successfully offering Europe-wide groupage transport online since April 2019, the TKL brokerage platform CargoNative, which intelligently connects partial and full loads as well as cargo space capacities, and the start-up CargoCast, which improves utilization and resource planning in the transport and logistics industry using artificial intelligence and predictive analytics.

from left to right: Jörn Peter Struck, Chairman of the CargoLine Management Board | Dr. Tim Brühn, Chairman of Cargo Digital World | Bernd Schäflein, Member of the Advisory Board of CargoLine and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cargo Digital World

Cargo Digital World is led by Dr. Tim Brühn. The experienced expert in digital industries and platform-based business models has shaped the first start-ups of CargoLine in his role as Head of Corporate Entrepreneurship at garage33. “We are convinced that with the strategic expansion of the CDW portfolio, we can provide significant added value to our clients and logistics partners as well as their customers. As scouts and market observers, we constantly identify growth opportunities and promising ideas. We connect them, quickly bring them to market maturity together with CargoLine, and scale them,” said Dr. Tim Brühn, Chairman of Cargo Digital World.

Planned Inclusion of Additional Cooperation Partners and Investors

Currently, all shares of CDW are held by CargoLine and its shareholder and partner companies. “But this is not where it ends. Our goal is to make CDW the leading provider of digital logistics services in Europe. Therefore, we want to expand the market position of CDW with additional cooperation partners, start-ups, and strategic investors, especially to prepare medium-sized companies for a dynamically changing environment,” announced Bernd Schäflein, member of the Advisory Board of CargoLine and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cargo Digital World.

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