The blog for rail freight professionals

Knowledge, news, trends and tips: Find everything you need to know about the rail freight industry in this section.

Building Materials

Rail Freight

Heidelberg Materials: Pioneering the future of rail freight with advanced data solutions

Heidelberg Materials France optimizes its rail logistics with advanced digital solutions. By integrating real-time tracking, automated transport documentation, and predictive analytics, the company enhances operational efficiency while reducing its carbon footprint. A digital transformation driving more sustainable and efficient logistics.

March 28, 2025

TMS

Rail Freight

Supply Chain

Digitized carrier contracts: The key to smarter transport planning

Fragmented contract data and uncertainty in rail freight lead to costly inefficiencies. With Everysens’ Smart Planning module, digitized carrier contracts ensure seamless alignment, real-time visibility, and optimized transport execution, reducing errors, cutting costs, and improving profitability.

March 25, 2025

Supply Chain

TMS

Chemicals

Digitizing Single Wagons: A performance lever

Managing single wagons comes with challenges like unpredictable delays and lack of visibility. With digitalization, companies can use IoT and AI to track shipments in real time, anticipate disruptions, and optimize logistics, making rail transport more efficient.

March 19, 2025

Rail Freight

Doc Vault: Your Rail Freight Documents, Safe and Sound!

Doc Vault is a document management solution for rail freight transport that centralises, secures and easily shares all documents related to transport operations, such as consignment notes, maintenance and damage reports. The files are stored securely, with advanced protection measures (encryption, access control). The user interface is simple and intuitive, allowing you to upload, manage and share documents efficiently while ensuring legal compliance and traceability.

February 4, 2025

RailTech Master Class

Rail Freight

Supply Chain

Railway Infrastructure Capacity Regulation - Insights from the European Parliament

On January 16th, Tilly Metz, a member of the European Parliament from the Green Party, joined a RailTech Masterclass webinar to discuss the ongoing negotiations concerning the Railway Infrastructure Capacity Regulation.

January 23, 2025

TMS

Rail Freight

Discover the Transport Agenda View

TVMS Transport Agenda View revolutionizes rail freight logistics by providing a customizable, real-time and easy-to-use interface. With greater visibility, flexibility and dynamic tracking, it enables coordinators, carriers and site stakeholders to optimize operations, respond quickly to issues and make data-driven decisions effortlessly.

January 2, 2025

Take it from our clients

Meet the driving forces that transform the rail freight industry

Yves Antoine

Director Global Logistics Procurement

Everysens improves our service to our customers and provides them with more accurate and faster information on rail transport deliveries.

Jérôme Becamel

Supply Chain Manager

With Everysens, we are able to transfer more trucks to rail, in order to reduce our CO2 emissions. We have already reduced them by 5%.

Youri Trinh

Refining and Chemicals, Supply Sales and Optimization, Germany

With Everysens' solution, we are digitising a complex process for planning our product shipments by rail, in order to better satisfy our customers while optimising our costs.

Aurélie Xantippe

Logistics Flow Coordinator, Rail Division

Working with Everysens has been a real discovery. Their solution in the field of rail geolocalisation is complete and is a major asset for monitoring our operations.

Amadou Sall

Rail Logistic Coordinator

It used to take me 1 week to know where a wagon was. Now, I can do it in 1 click.

Damien Roussel

Supply Chain Project Manager

We chose Everysens for their expertise in the rail environment, but also for the quality and interoperability of the solution, which allows us to create a single source of reliable data.

Jean-Marc Viallatte

VP Group Supply Chain

The digitalisation of our supply chain is one of the key areas to increase the quality of our customer service: it is one of our priorities. We wanted to be more proactive in managing the contingencies of rail transport which is essential to our customers for safe and responsible transport.

Nicolas Plouviez

Logistics Performance Manager

We’ve increased by 5% our rail operation productivity, and saved 30% of time spent on rail operations

Oetze Dusseljee

Global Category Manager Logistics

Everysens' innovative approach to digitalization has streamlined our shipment planning, making us more proactive in handling the complexities of rail transport. The dedication and expertise of the Everysens team have been instrumental in our Logistics Digitalization roadmap by swiftly delivering a tailored solution, demonstrating the value of genuine collaboration and innovative thinking in logistics.