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A few start-ups are offering the pay-as-you-go model, whereby one can track the shipment and know the exact distance covered by the truck or carrier service, and pay accordingly

With GST in place, India is expected to become a seamless market without any difference in the interstate or intrastate markets

Implementation of GST was to push organized logistics industry and also improve cost structure for the industry

According to International Telecommunication Union, says FarEye, there are 1.3 billion deskless workers globally who aren't technologically driven

The B2B industry in India faces an absolute dearth of wholesalers and distributors.

It is the interplay of infrastructure, technology and new types of service providers, which defines whether the logistics industry will be able to help its customers provide effective services.

Logistics technologies have an enormous potential to improve the e-commerce sector.

With GST subsuming entry taxes and bringing standardization in tax rates, India will become tax neutral irrespective of location and no tax arbitrage will be possible.

The way it has been till now, the future of app cabbies looks very promising and profitable.

Within around 10 months, BlackBuck became India's biggest logistics company in business-to-business full truck load (FTL) freight transportation category.

Transport companies are now increasingly using technology to monitor metrics like distance travelled, hours driven, speed, idling time, etc. to measure driver performance.

The masses expect the Union Budget 2017-2018 to be high on 'feel-good' quotient.

The paradigm shift caused by the age of empowered consumers has forced supply chains to reinvent themselves. To appeal to new customer expectations, the supply chains will become more consumer-driven with efficient future demand prediction, to ensuring supply meets the predicted demand

Mumbai-based Roy drove a tourist taxi for 10 months after she lost her husband, in 2007.

The app is being looked at a revolutionary step in the global space mobile apps market.

Bold, coordinated actions from the private and public sectors in both technologies and business models are the need of the hour.

Logistic is an integral part of the eCommerce companies.

Roadrunnr bought TinyOwl, and post the deal Runnr went live with its Food Delivery app in July

These innovative businesses are bold enough to sound foolhardy, or seem too tough to execute.

In case of reselling platforms, every consumer is going benchmark your company against the classifieds - Olx, Quikr

"The way logistics works in our country hasn't changed much in a long time"