Teleroute S.A., a former

Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. () is a Dutch information services company. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands (Global) and Philadelphia, United States (corporate). Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a ...

business and since 2017 part of Alpega group, is a pan-European online

freight exchange A freight exchange or load board is an online service for haulage companies, logistics providers, freight forwarders, transport companies and (in some cases) private customers. It allows haulage companies to search a database of available freight ...

service that offers customized online services for the

Transport Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, an ...

and

Logistics Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...

industry. Founded in 1985, as the original online freight and vehicle exchange and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, Teleroute has operations in 27 European countries. "With more than 70.000 active users on the platform, Teleroute has gained the trust of big transport companies such as DB Schenker, Malherbe, MKTS transports spéciaux, Neele-Vat Logistics, Nothegger Transport Logistik GmbH, Comfret TTD Ltd and more."

History

Teleroute is an online freight and vehicle exchange and has been active in France and Europe since 1985. With the roll-out of the

Minitel The Minitel was a videotex online service accessible through telephone lines, and was the world's most successful online service prior to the World Wide Web. It was invented in Cesson-Sévigné, near Rennes in Brittany, France. The service was ...

technology (3614 Lamy), Teleroute expanded its range of services to include computer-based services and later also a web-based platform. In 1996, Teleroute, a subsidiary of the Lamy Group, became part of

. In 2000, Teleroute was integrated into a new structure for transport IT solutions: Wolters KluwerTransport Services (WKTS). In 2005, WKTS took over the Nolis freight exchange, which was followed by the merger of the two freight exchanges in 2012. In the early 2010s, the Group decided to significantly expand its range of services in the field of transportation management system (TMS) through the integration of the software solutions Transwide (Charger TMS). On 30 June 2017, Wolters Kluwer Transport Services was officially taken over by Castik Capital with the aim of creating a leading portfolio of companies in the TMS sector. Since 1 October 2017, WKTS has been operating officially under the name of Alpega.

Alpega Group

Under its current brand name, Alpega has brought together various software solutions: Alpega TMS (inet logistics and Transwide), TenderEasy (freight procurement), Teleroute (European freight exchange), BursaTransport (Romanian freight exchange) and 123cargo (freight exchange for Central, Eastern and Southern Europe).

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