European Alternatives to project44
Looking for a European alternative to project44? The company is based in Chicago and its own privacy policy relies on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for personal data from Europe, so shipment, carrier and consignee data sits with a US contracting entity.
The European platforms below track road, rail, sea and air freight, or the supplier network behind it, and each one contracts through a company in the EU, the UK or Switzerland.
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11 European Alternatives to project44
Wakeo
Predictive ETAs across sea, air, road, rail and parcel in one control tower
Everysens
Lille-based rail freight management with ETAs for block trains and wagons
Nexxiot
Zurich sensors and cloud that put railcars and containers on a map
Teqplay
Rotterdam port-call monitoring with ETA and ETD predictions
Sensolus
Battery trackers for containers, trailers and pallets, priced per asset
Shippeo
Paris visibility layer that sits on top of whichever TMS you run
Prewave
Vienna platform that watches supplier risk beyond tier 1
TIMOCOM
Freight exchange whose Live Shipment Tracking costs nothing extra
SupplyOn
Manufacturer network linking orders, ASNs and transport status
Alpega
Zaventem multimodal TMS with predictive ETAs and carrier network
Shiptify
Nantes shipper TMS with shipment follow-up from EUR 89 a month
Key takeaways
- project44 is based in Chicago, and its EU/UK/Swiss-US privacy policy names project44, LLC as certified to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
- Wakeo, Shippeo, Everysens, Teqplay, TIMOCOM, Nexxiot, Sensolus, SupplyOn, Prewave, Alpega and Shiptify contract through companies in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria or Switzerland.
- Among the pure visibility tools on this page, only Wakeo and Shippeo list road, rail, sea and air together as shipment tracking modes.
- Sensolus (EUR 6 per smart-tracker asset per month, EUR 1 per location tag) and Shiptify (from EUR 89 per month) are the two tools here with a price on their own sites.
- Prewave and SupplyOn monitor suppliers and risk, not shipments, so they replace a different part of a supply chain stack than project44 does.
Why people leave project44
project44 is a Chicago company that sells shipment visibility to shippers, third-party logistics providers and freight forwarders. Its site now presents the product under the name Movement, a decision intelligence platform, and the visibility part is split by mode: ocean, over-the-road (full and less-than-truckload plus parcel), air, rail and intermodal, ports and terminals. Around that sit transportation management modules, yard management, an eCommerce delivery layer and AI agents.
The reason a European buyer looks elsewhere is usually contractual, not functional. The company's EU/UK/Swiss-US privacy policy says project44, LLC is certified to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, its UK Extension and the Swiss-U.S. framework, and describes the company as a processor that receives personal information "in the U.S." from clients. For tracking, that information includes position, sensor and vehicle data from the vehicles that run a client's freight.
A shipper that signs with project44 therefore sends driver and vehicle movements to a US contracting entity and relies on a transfer framework to make that lawful. A shipper that signs with a French, Belgian or Dutch vendor keeps the contract inside the EU. Whether that difference matters is a risk decision, and the rest of this page treats it as one, next to coverage, price and effort.
- The transfer basis is a framework, not a location The policy relies on the Data Privacy Framework principles for personal data received from the EU, the UK and Switzerland, and says those principles prevail over the policy text where the two conflict. That is a legitimate transfer mechanism today. It is also a mechanism that depends on a US government programme, which is the point some legal teams want to remove by contracting with a vendor established in the EU.
- Driver and vehicle data is personal data The same policy lists position, sensor and vehicle data derived from vehicles operating for a client or its subcontractors as typical processed information. A freight tracking platform is often a record of where named drivers were and when. For works councils and data protection officers in Germany, France or the Netherlands, that makes the choice of contracting entity an agenda item rather than a footnote.
- You may be buying more modules than you use The navigation of the project44 site lists visibility, rating and booking, documents, port intelligence, sailing schedules, freight procurement analytics, yard management, appointment scheduling, eCommerce delivery dates and AI agents. A buyer who only needs ocean ETAs or rail wagon positions can find a narrower European product that covers the one job and nothing else, as long as that job is not shipments across all modes.
- Several European vendors publish their price or their entity details Of the eleven tools on this page, Sensolus publishes a per-asset price, Shiptify shows an entry price of EUR 89 per month, and TIMOCOM states that tracking costs nothing extra inside its marketplace. The others, like project44 on the pages reviewed, send you to a demo for pricing. The difference is smaller than expected, so price alone rarely decides this switch.
What you have to replace, not just match
What you replace depends on how you use project44. If the main use is a shipment control tower that predicts arrival times across carriers, the matching tools are Wakeo and Shippeo, which both track more than one transport mode.
If the main use is one mode, the matching tool is narrower: Everysens for rail, Teqplay for port calls, TIMOCOM for road orders booked in its marketplace. There is no single European product on this page that matches every mode project44 lists with the same carrier reach.
The part that is easy to underestimate is the carrier connection. The project44 site says it works with more than 280,000 carriers, which is the vendor's own figure, and lists several ways a carrier connects: a driver app, telematics, and API or EDI.
Any replacement has to reach the carriers you actually use, and each European vendor onboards carriers in its own way. Ask for your top twenty carriers by volume and have each vendor state which are already connected and which would be onboarded.
Then there are the modules around visibility. If you use project44 for rating, booking, documents or yard appointments, the visibility vendors on this page do not replace those. Alpega and Shiptify are transportation management systems and cover planning, tendering and invoice control. Prewave and SupplyOn solve a different problem again, the risk in your supplier base, and Nexxiot and Sensolus follow assets with hardware rather than shipments with carrier data.
The alternatives compared
| Position | Tool | Headquarters | Pricing | Jurisdiction |
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| #1 | Wakeo | Lyon (registered seat per French company register), France | Pricing on request (not published) | EU (France) |
| #2 | Everysens | Lille, France | Demo on request, no public pricing | EU (France) |
| #3 | Nexxiot | Zurich, Switzerland | Pricing on request (not published) | Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA) |
| #4 | Teqplay | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Pricing on request (not published) | EU (Netherlands) |
| #5 | Sensolus | Ghent, Belgium | All-in monthly rates: EUR 6 per smart-tracker asset (500 assets), EUR 1 per location tag (1,000 assets); three plans, Essential, Professional and Analytics | EU (Belgium) |
| #6 | Shippeo | Paris, France | Pricing on request (not published) | EU (France) |
| #7 | Prewave | Vienna, Austria | Not published; demo and sales-led quote | EU (Austria) |
| #8 | TIMOCOM | Erkrath (headquarters Dusseldorf), Germany | Tracking carries no extra fee inside the TIMOCOM Marketplace (vendor statement); the marketplace fees themselves are not listed on the pages reviewed | EU (Germany) |
| #9 | SupplyOn | Hallbergmoos, Germany | Quote on request; demo offered | EU (Germany) |
| #10 | Alpega | Zaventem, Belgium | Pricing on request (not published) | EU (Belgium) |
| #11 | Shiptify | Nantes, France | Homepage shows EUR 89/month as the SME starting point; larger set-ups go through an online estimate form | EU (France) |
How each alternative compares to project44
Best for: Importers, exporters and forwarders with several carriers and long ocean legs who want predicted arrival times
Wakeo is the European tool whose scope looks most like project44's visibility core. It lists sea, air, road, rail and parcel in one view, recalculates arrival times with its own machine learning models, and sends alerts by email or SMS when a shipment leaves a drawn corridor. Against project44 it is narrower in modules, since there is no rating, booking or yard layer.
The company is a SAS registered in Lyon in 2016, and its site says it took over the Veroo software developed at LKW WALTER. A forwarder can send alerts to its own customers under its own brand, which suits logistics providers. Hosting region and price are not published, so both come out of a sales conversation.
What Wakeo does better than project44
- French SAS contract instead of a US entity relying on a transfer framework
- White-labelled alerts for the customers of a forwarder
- Route reliability scoring and a CO2 calculator in the same product
- Tive partnership adds temperature and humidity to alert rules
Where Wakeo is a step down from project44
- No rating, booking, documents or yard modules
- Carrier network size is not stated
- Hosting region unpublished
Standout against project44. Wakeo is the one tool here that scores the reliability of whole trade lanes, not only individual shipments.
Everysens
Lille rail freight system for industrial shippers, narrower than project44 but built for wagons
Best for: Steel, chemicals, automotive and agribusiness shippers that depend on block trains and single wagons
Everysens treats rail as its own problem. Wagons change trains, sit in yards and rarely carry GPS, so the product merges several tracking sources on a map and predicts an arrival time for each block train and single wagon. project44 lists rail and intermodal as one visibility mode among many; Everysens makes it the whole product.
Beyond tracking, the rail system covers ordering, planning, fleet efficiency, cost control and payment, and a document vault. The legal notice names Everysens SAS in Lille. A shipper with road and ocean flows would need a second tool, and the platform data location is not stated.
What Everysens does better than project44
- Incident declaration with a reason and a responsible party, followed to closure
- Planning, cost control and invoicing for rail in the same system
- French contracting entity with seat and register details published
Where Everysens is a step down from project44
- Rail only, no road, ocean or air
- No public pricing or hosting region
- Much smaller reach than an all-mode network
Standout against project44. Everysens is the only tool on the page that predicts arrival times for individual single wagons.
Nexxiot
Swiss sensors on railcars and tank containers, reading position without waiting for a carrier
Best for: Railcar lessors, chemical shippers and intermodal operators with their own equipment to monitor
Nexxiot approaches the problem from the equipment, not the shipment. It fits a gateway to the wagon or container, and the Globehopper device updates every 5 minutes on railcars. project44 relies on carrier connections such as telematics and API or EDI; Nexxiot relies on hardware you own, which gives you data that does not depend on a carrier's willingness to share.
The cloud shows routes, mileage, geofence alerts including border crossings, and shock detection that helps assign damage to a party. Hardware needs a rollout project on every asset. The company is Swiss, so it sits outside the EU, and a US cloud instance exists next to the EU one, so check which one a contract names.
What Nexxiot does better than project44
- Position and shock data from your own equipment, independent of carrier reporting
- ATEX-rated gateways for hazardous cargo
- Reads data from third-party gateways and sensors too
- ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 stated on its security page
Where Nexxiot is a step down from project44
- Hardware on every asset before any data appears
- Does not track shipments carried by someone else's equipment
- No published pricing; founding year not stated
Standout against project44. Nexxiot lists ATEX zone ratings for its gateways, which none of the software-only tools here can offer.
Best for: Terminals, ports, charterers and shipping companies that need exact berthing and departure events
Teqplay covers the stretch of an ocean shipment that project44's ocean and port modules also address, the time a vessel spends in and around a port. It records tug, pilot and mooring movements, produces e-SOF timestamps instead of hand-written statements of facts, and predicts ETA and ETD. The scope stops at the quay.
Teqplay B.V. sits in Rotterdam. The site says it has monitored 750,000 port calls for more than 150 clients, both vendor figures, and that its solutions follow DCSA, ITPCO and TIC4.0 standards. Its users are operators more than cargo owners, so a small importer will find little to configure for itself.
What Teqplay does better than project44
- Port events measured from vessel movements, not reported by the terminal
- Benchmarks that compare terminals, ports and vessels
- Dutch contracting entity with the registered office published
Where Teqplay is a step down from project44
- Maritime only, no inland legs
- Aimed at operators, not shippers tracking their own orders
- No pricing or hosting region stated
Standout against project44. Teqplay turns tug and pilot movements into the timestamps that a port call record is built from.
Best for: Pool operators and manufacturers tracking containers, trailers, pallets and returnable packaging
Sensolus follows things, not orders. A smart tracker with GPS, BLE and Wi-Fi goes on a container or trailer, and a cheaper location tag covers pallets and tools inside a plant or warehouse. project44 follows a shipment through carrier systems; Sensolus follows your own asset wherever it travels, including when it is empty.
The pricing page shows EUR 6 per smart-tracker asset per month for 500 assets and EUR 1 per location tag per month for 1,000 assets, all-in. Development is in-house in Belgium, and the vendor says data stays in Europe, on AWS. Anything beyond the listed volumes is quoted, and hardware must be fitted.
What Sensolus does better than project44
- Published per-asset price against a demo-only quote
- Hardware replacement, firmware updates and field agents included in the monthly price
- Belgian contracting entity with a VAT number on its contact page
- Tracks empty returnable assets that no carrier reports on
Where Sensolus is a step down from project44
- No ETAs for multi-carrier shipments
- AWS infrastructure, so the stack is not EU-owned
Standout against project44. Sensolus is the one tool here that prices tracking per asset per month on its own website.
Best for: Shippers and logistics providers with a TMS in place that want tracking and predicted ETAs across carriers
Shippeo is the other European tool that tracks road, rail, sea and air with predictive ETAs, and the closest like-for-like to project44's visibility product. It onboards carriers, connects to existing systems and describes itself as neutral, with no load matching or brokerage. It does not plan, tender or invoice freight, so it sits beside a TMS.
Shippeo SAS is registered in Paris (RCS Paris 801 689 415), says it was founded in 2014 and has more than 200 employees. The vendor states storage is managed 100 percent in the EU, lists ISO 27001 and reports a Leader placement in a 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant, both vendor statements. The marketing site runs on a US host.
What Shippeo does better than project44
- EU storage stated by the vendor, with role-based access by party
- ISO 27001 certification listed
- French contracting entity with register number published
- No brokerage activity, so no conflict with your carriers
Where Shippeo is a step down from project44
- No rating, booking or yard modules like the wider project44 suite
- No published pricing
- Coverage quality depends on carrier onboarding
Standout against project44. Shippeo states that its platform storage is managed in the EU, a claim the other all-mode tool here does not make.
Best for: Buyers who need to see disruption, sustainability and sub-tier risk in their supplier base
Prewave does not track a container. It watches suppliers and tiers behind them, and the site page says it processes roughly 4.5 million data points a day across more than 200 risk types. A project44 customer would add it next to visibility, not instead of it, because it answers who is in trouble rather than where the freight is.
The company was founded in Vienna in 2017 and is EU-incorporated. Our review notes a 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader placement for supplier risk management, stated by the vendor, and positions it for DORA and NIS2 buyers. Pricing, certifications and hosting location are not stated on the pages reviewed.
What Prewave does better than project44
- Supplier risk, sustainability and multi-tier mapping, which project44 does not list
- Austrian contracting entity
Where Prewave is a step down from project44
- No shipment tracking or ETAs
- No published price, no free trial disclosed
- Certifications and hosting not stated on pages reviewed
Standout against project44. Prewave maps suppliers beyond tier one, which a shipment tracker cannot see.
Best for: Shippers and haulage firms that already book road freight on the TIMOCOM marketplace
TIMOCOM is a freight exchange first, and tracking attaches to the transport order. The carrier chooses telematics, GPS, a phone app or manual input, and decides whether the customer sees the vehicle position or only the ETA. Against project44, which connects to carriers separately, this needs no extra onboarding if the carriers already trade in the marketplace.
The vendor says Live Shipment Tracking is free within the marketplace; the marketplace fees themselves are not published on the pages reviewed. An API passes tracking data into a TMS or ERP. TIMOCOM GmbH is registered at the Dusseldorf local court. Tracking covers road vehicles and requires the order to run through TIMOCOM.
What TIMOCOM does better than project44
- No additional tracking charge, per the vendor
- Carrier decides whether position or only ETA is shared
- Delivery receipts and damage photos stored with the order
- German GmbH with a published commercial register number
Where TIMOCOM is a step down from project44
- Orders must run through the marketplace
- Road only, no ocean, air or rail
- Marketplace fees and data location not stated
Standout against project44. TIMOCOM is the only tool here where tracking costs nothing beyond the marketplace you may already use.
SupplyOn
Munich-area supplier network for manufacturers, with a risk module instead of freight tracking
Best for: Automotive and industrial manufacturers whose suppliers already use the SupplyOn platform
SupplyOn solves the supplier side of visibility. Its risk module links signals to the suppliers, materials and deliveries they affect, and its incident management collects supplier feedback on the impact. project44 does not list a supplier network, so this is a complement for a manufacturer, not a like-for-like swap.
The company has operated since 2000 from Hallbergmoos and counts Bosch, Schaeffler and ZF among its shareholders. It reports more than 140,000 companies on its network. The value depends on how many of your suppliers are already connected. Pricing is a quote, and hosting location and certifications are not stated on the pages reviewed.
What SupplyOn does better than project44
- Risk signals tied to your own suppliers, materials and deliveries
- A supplier network that automotive buyers already use
- German company operating since 2000
Where SupplyOn is a step down from project44
- No carrier tracking or shipment ETAs
- Little use outside manufacturing
Standout against project44. SupplyOn is co-owned by Bosch, Schaeffler and ZF, which makes it a buyer-side network rather than a vendor product.
Alpega
Belgian cloud TMS with visibility and a carrier network, replacing the TMS side of project44
Best for: Mid-size and large shippers running multi-mode, multi-carrier freight who want planning in one system
Alpega is closer to the TMS modules in the project44 navigation than to its tracking. It plans, executes and settles shipments on one platform, includes real-time visibility with predictive ETAs, and reaches a carrier network through the Teleroute, Wtransnet and BursaTransport/123Cargo exchanges. The vendor cites more than 80,000 verified carriers and 350,000 daily freight offers.
The TMS contracting entity is Alpega TMS Belgium NV in Zaventem, with sister companies in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, plus a North American subsidiary in Chicago. Templates for SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, Oracle and Dynamics 365 are vendor claims. Pricing and data centre region are not published.
What Alpega does better than project44
- Tendering, planning and settlement inside the same platform
- Spot capacity from a built-in freight exchange
- Pre-built ERP integration templates, per the vendor
Where Alpega is a step down from project44
- Heavy for small shippers
- A scoped implementation project is still needed
- A North American subsidiary exists in Chicago
Standout against project44. Alpega is the only tool here that bundles a freight exchange with a TMS, so a planner can source spot capacity inside it.
Best for: SMEs and mid-size shippers moving from spreadsheets and email to one transport tool
Shiptify replaces the manual end of freight management more than the enterprise visibility project44 is known for. Its homepage groups dock booking, shipment follow-up, billing and disputes in one tool, and a consolidated view serves multi-site groups. The homepage says SMEs can start at EUR 89 per month, and larger setups use an online estimate form.
Shiptify SAS is registered in Nantes (RCS Nantes 821 524 048), and the homepage claims more than 20,000 companies collaborate on the platform daily. The legal notice names Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, French branch, as application host, so the contracting company is French while the infrastructure provider belongs to a US group.
What Shiptify does better than project44
- Entry price shown on the homepage
- Dock booking and freight invoice control alongside tracking
- Fast to adopt for companies still on spreadsheets
Where Shiptify is a step down from project44
- Shipper-side only, not for carriers or forwarders
- Higher tiers need an estimate and a quote
- AWS hosting
Standout against project44. Shiptify is the one tool here where freight invoice control sits in the same product as tracking and dock booking.
What actually breaks when you switch
The first thing that breaks in a switch is the carrier connections. A carrier that sends telematics or API data to project44 has to be connected again to the new vendor, and each vendor has its own onboarding. Plan for a period where both platforms run in parallel for your main lanes, compare the arrival times they predict against actual deliveries, and move lane by lane instead of in a single cutover.
The second is the data you rely on downstream. Alerts, ETAs and shipment references usually flow into a TMS, ERP or customer portal through an API, and those mappings need rebuilding. Check what you can export from project44 before you terminate, including historical shipment events if you use them for carrier scorecards, and check the notice period in your own contract. The pages reviewed do not state project44's terms, so that comes from your agreement.
Can a European platform match project44 for ocean and road tracking in one tool?
Not with the same breadth on every lane, according to the pages reviewed. Wakeo lists sea, air, road, rail and parcel in one control tower, and Shippeo lists road, rail, sea and air with predictive ETAs. Those two are the realistic single-platform replacements. Both say coverage depends on connecting carriers, so the number that counts is how many of your own carriers are live on day one, not the number of modes on a feature list.
If ocean is the main pain, add Teqplay for port call events, since it measures tug, pilot and mooring moves instead of waiting for a terminal message. If road is the pain and your carriers already trade on TIMOCOM, its tracking costs nothing extra according to the vendor. In each case you are accepting a narrower tool in exchange for a European contract.
What does the Data Privacy Framework change for a project44 customer in the EU?
It changes the legal basis for the transfer, not the location of the contracting company. The project44 policy says the company certified to the framework and processes data it receives from the EU, the UK and Switzerland on behalf of clients. For a European shipper, that means a processor agreement with a US entity that depends on that certification staying valid.
A European vendor removes that dependency from the contract, but not every risk. Sensolus and Shiptify run on AWS, and Shippeo says its storage is managed in the EU while its marketing site is hosted by a US provider. Read the hosting clause as well as the company address, and ask which sub-processors touch driver position data.
Which one to pick
For shipments across several modes with predicted arrival times, shortlist Wakeo and Shippeo and test both on your busiest lanes with your real carriers. Pick Shippeo if you keep a TMS and want a visibility layer with stated EU storage. Pick Wakeo if forwarder-branded alerts, lane reliability scores and carbon figures matter. For one mode, choose Everysens for rail, Teqplay for port calls or TIMOCOM for road freight booked in its marketplace.
If your question is about equipment, use Nexxiot for railcars and tank containers or Sensolus for pallets, trailers and returnable packaging. If it is about suppliers, use Prewave or SupplyOn. If you also want to replace the planning side, Alpega suits larger shippers and Shiptify suits SMEs. Stay with project44 if one contract for all modes and its carrier reach matter more to you than the contracting entity.
Frequently Asked Questions
For multimodal shipment tracking with predicted arrival times, the closest options on this page are Wakeo (Lyon) and Shippeo (Paris), since both cover road, rail, sea and air. For a single mode, Everysens handles rail, Teqplay handles port calls and TIMOCOM handles road orders inside its marketplace. For owned equipment, Nexxiot and Sensolus track assets with hardware. The right pick depends on mode and carrier mix, not on one ranking.
No. The pair of privacy policies on its site give a Chicago address, and the EU/UK/Swiss-US policy names project44, LLC as the certified entity. Its site promotes a European supply chain event, but the contracting entity for a European buyer is a US company relying on the Data Privacy Framework for personal data it receives from the EU, the UK and Switzerland.
Mostly not. Sensolus lists EUR 6 per month for a smart-tracker asset (500 assets) and EUR 1 per month for a location tag (1,000 assets), and Shiptify shows EUR 89 per month for SMEs. TIMOCOM says its tracking is free inside the marketplace. Wakeo, Everysens, Nexxiot, Teqplay, Shippeo, Prewave, SupplyOn and Alpega quote through a demo, which is also how project44 sells.
Shippeo describes itself as the visibility layer that sits beside a TMS, and its own page says it does not plan, tender or invoice freight. Wakeo is also a visibility layer and not a TMS. If you have no TMS and want one that includes visibility, Alpega (carrier network, tendering) and Shiptify (SME entry price, dock booking, invoice control) are the transport management options on the page.
No. Prewave monitors supplier risk, sustainability and multi-tier supplier relationships, and SupplyOn runs a collaboration network for manufacturers with a risk module. They answer a question that project44 does not, namely which supplier is in trouble, rather than where a container is.
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