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UK-based freight-forwarding AI vendor Nexcade raised $6 million to automate shipment coordination, arriving as the cost of building AI tooling is expected to keep rising over the next few years — investors are still backing infrastructure-layer AI in freight forwarding despite tighter capital conditions.

Nexcade · Journal of Commerce (JOC)

French manufacturer Armor-Iimak commissioned three of Alstef Group's tri-directional automated GT16 forklifts at its Loire-Atlantique plant, extending an existing customer relationship — incremental AGV fleet expansion at an already-automated site, not a first-time pilot.

Alstef Group · Supply Chain Magazine (FR)

Air India partnered with digital air-cargo platform cargo.one to make its cargo capacity bookable online in real time — another full-service carrier moving air-freight capacity onto digital marketplaces instead of manual allocation, a shift freight forwarders should expect to keep spreading across carriers.

Air India · Logistics Insider

The 9th Annual Modernization of Cross-Border Trade summit in Texas surfaced the Montgomery ruling and rising cargo-fraud exposure as live legal and operational risks for U.S.-Mexico freight movement — cross-border AI/visibility tooling is being built against a shifting regulatory backdrop, not a settled one.

Borderless Coverage · FreightWaves

Microlise's 2026 UK transport and logistics report found 90% of transport managers believe technology has made drivers feel safer, with in-cab camera systems improving driver performance by up to 50% and helping prevent serious accidents in 83% of cases — concrete accident-prevention data fleet operators can cite when building the case for AI-enabled in-cab retrofits.

Microlise · Logistics Manager (Akabo Media)