• TPMTech
  • February 23 – 24, 2023 | Hilton Long Beach

Manish Singh

MatchLog

Co-Founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer

Manish Singh has been in the field of supply chain and logistics, with a career spanning over 17 years. He currently serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer at MatchLog, a transportation startup that aims to make a positive impact on the shipping container logistics industry through its focus on decarbonization and sustainability. Prior to this role, Manish was Co-Founder & CEO of Shiplyst, an ocean freight procurement marketplace backed by 500 Global. He has also held leadership positions at WonderPoint Software, a product startup that provides SCM solutions on the Cloud to International Freight Forwarding Companies and co-founded a software services firm, Kudos Infomedia Pvt Ltd in 2006, leading it to acquisition by a US based Inc-500 company in 2009.

Manish's experience in the startup community has also been noteworthy, where he has served as a Program Leader and Fellow for the Startup Leadership Program (Mumbai Chapter), a highly selective, world-class training program and network for outstanding founders, leaders and innovators who are or want to be startup CEOs and be connected to a global network.

Sessions With Manish Singh

Thursday, 23 February

  • 03:30pm - 04:00pm (PST) / 23/feb/2023 11:30 pm - 24/feb/2023 12:00 am

    Street Turns: An Obvious Solution that Struggles for Adoption

    Street turns, container triangulation, matchbacks. Whatever you want to call the process of connecting an unloaded import container with an available export shipment outside a marine terminal, the concept has confounded the industry for decades. In a vacuum, there can be few ideas that sound more reasonable or impactful from a cost, environmental, and resource usage perspective. But in practice, it has been hard to drive adoption, due to a range of factors. Technology isn’t necessarily the constraint as much as competitive and operational misalignment, as well as the reality that matchback initiatives need an owner to drive adoption. In this session, four logistics industry veterans and technology experts in various regions discuss why street turns haven’t taken off, why adoption varies in different markets, and what can be done to drive broader use in the future.

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