AI adoption in the international logistics sector is accelerating at pace, and CenAI is emerging as a leading solution for forwarders and logistics providers seeking to supercharge their operations.
Launched last year by transport and logistics technology specialist Cen Global, CenAI is an intelligent AI layer designed to sit on top of existing global logistics platforms, enabling operators to interpret, validate, and act on data in real time. The result is a significant reduction in time-consuming manual workloads and unnecessary operational complexity.
CenAI is now live across multiple logistics providers, delivering impressive results, with early adopters reporting faster processing times, improved data accuracy, and a marked reduction in manual intervention.
By leveraging in-built AI agents and machine learning, CenAI automates and optimises core freight forwarding processes, including customs documentation, shipment tracking, and administrative workflows.
Following several successful trials, Cen Global is now moving towards formalising agreements with a number of operators, subject to final commercial alignment and delivery planning. This will see a phased deployment of key operational capabilities, including brokerage, booking creation, one-off quote creation and document attaching.
This structured rollout enables forwarders and logistics businesses to adopt AI in a pragmatic, low-risk way, minimising operational disruption while ensuring strong user adoption and measurable ROI from day one.
With global logistics providers under greater pressure to work smarter, more efficiently, and to improve visibility across complex, multi-tiered supply chains, the industry needs to evolve its approach to operations and technology adoption in order to better address the challenges of modern international logistics.
This includes handling traditionally time-consuming tasks such as ingesting and verifying customs data, responding to customer queries with real-time shipment updates, and streamlining back-office operations – all of which CenAI delivers.
It is estimated that around 57% of shipment delays are down to document errors by logistics teams, with issues such as missing HS codes, mistyped consignee addresses, or incomplete information leading to significant compliance penalties, revenue loss, and poor customer satisfaction.
CenAI significantly reduces the risk of human error, automatically validating and correcting information to ensure shipments comply with regulations from the start – preventing costly delays and giving logistics teams confidence that every shipment is accurate and compliant.
Crucially, it also enhances visibility across the entire logistics journey, enabling logistics providers to deliver real-time updates, anticipate disruptions, and make proactive decisions, without the need to invest heavily in headcount or infrastructure.
While supply chain visibility research varies, most studies point to a significant portion of companies lacking real-time insights into their shipments.
One such report, the Tive State of Visibility 2025 report, which focuses on IoT and real-time tracking and surveyed supply chain leaders across multiple sectors, reveals that 37% of companies have no visibility into in-transit cargo, effectively operating blind during shipping. Furthermore, 60% of organisations only become aware of shipment damage after delivery, or sometimes not at all.
“The logistics sector faces new challenges every day, and as an industry steeped in manual operations and legacy systems, the pressure on operators to change the way they’re doing things has never been higher,” says Steve Cross, Managing Director at Cen Global.
“This is where artificial intelligence is going to revolutionise how logistics operations are managed and optimised in real time. The feedback that we have received from those that have trialled CenAI over the past year has been overwhelmingly positive, with the majority now moving to full-scale implementation.
“From our standpoint, AI isn’t just replacing humans, it’s filling a critical gap where humans simply can’t keep up with the volume, complexity, and speed of data required to ensure shipments move smoothly. It addresses the industry's need for better visibility, faster ETAs, and reduced backend workloads in a global landscape that is changing faster than the industry can handle.”
Looking ahead, Cen Global also sees significant opportunity to expand collaboration with partners through the co-development of additional AI-driven use cases. These include booking confirmation checks, shipping instructions, bill of lading verification, and a wide range of other operational scenarios that continue to rely heavily on manual input today.
Cen Global is exhibiting at Multimodal on stand 3012
