European Supply Chain Visibility Platforms

A visibility platform knows where every order, container and truck is, which means it also holds your carrier relationships, delivery promises and customer addresses. The European platforms below track road, rail, sea and air freight, or the suppliers behind it, and each is run by a company contracting from the EU, the UK, Switzerland or Israel.

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11 European Supply Chain Visibility Platforms

Wakeo

Predictive ETAs across sea, air, road, rail and parcel in one control tower

France
Predictive ETAs Route reliability scoring Carbon footprint reporting

Everysens

Lille-based rail freight management with ETAs for block trains and wagons

France
Rail ETAs Incident handling Rail TMS modules

Nexxiot

Zurich sensors and cloud that put railcars and containers on a map

Switzerland
ATEX-rated gateways Shock detection Mileage analysis

Teqplay

Rotterdam port-call monitoring with ETA and ETD predictions

Netherlands
Port call timeline ETA and ETD predictions Terminal benchmarking

Sensolus

Battery trackers for containers, trailers and pallets, priced per asset

Belgium
Published per-asset price GPS, BLE and Wi-Fi tracking Condition monitoring

Shippeo

Paris visibility layer that sits on top of whichever TMS you run

France
Multimodal tracking Exception alerts EU-managed storage

Prewave

Vienna platform that watches supplier risk beyond tier 1

Austria
Multi-tier mapping Risk alerts Compliance modules

TIMOCOM

Freight exchange whose Live Shipment Tracking costs nothing extra

Germany
Telematics, GPS or app tracking API into TMS or ERP Position or ETA-only sharing

SupplyOn

Manufacturer network linking orders, ASNs and transport status

Germany
Control towers Supplier collaboration Stock visibility

Alpega

Zaventem multimodal TMS with predictive ETAs and carrier network

Belgium
Predictive ETAs Tendering Freight exchange

Shiptify

Nantes shipper TMS with shipment follow-up from EUR 89 a month

France
Shipment follow-up Dock booking Invoice control

Key takeaways

  • Wakeo (Lyon) and Shippeo (Paris) are the two tools in this category that track road, rail, sea and air shipments together with predicted arrival times, and neither publishes a price.
  • Sensolus of Ghent is the only tool with a public price per tracked unit: EUR 6 per month for a smart-tracker asset (500 assets) and EUR 1 per month for a location tag (1,000 assets).
  • Everysens (rail), Teqplay (port calls), Nexxiot (railcars and tank containers) and TIMOCOM (road orders on its marketplace) each cover one mode or one use, so a shipper with mixed flows needs a second tool next to them.
  • Prewave of Vienna and SupplyOn of Hallbergmoos monitor supplier risk rather than shipments, which makes them a complement to a tracking platform and not a replacement for one.
  • Alpega of Zaventem and Shiptify of Nantes are transport management systems with tracking built in, and Shiptify shows an entry price of EUR 89 per month on its homepage.

European supply chain visibility platforms are software services that show where goods, vehicles or suppliers are and when freight will arrive, supplied by a company contracting in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, which matters because tracking data records the movements of named drivers, vessels and carriers and a European contract keeps that processing under one legal regime.

European supply chain visibility platforms compared

European supply chain visibility platforms compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolEstablishedEntry priceBest for
#1 Wakeo France Pricing on request (not published) Importers, exporters and forwarders that move freight across several carriers, with long ocean legs
#2 Everysens France Demo on request, no public pricing Industrial shippers of steel, chemicals, automotive parts and farm goods that depend on rail freight
#3 Nexxiot Switzerland Pricing on request (not published) Owners and lessors of railcars, tank containers and intermodal units who want position data from their own equipment
#4 Teqplay Netherlands Pricing on request (not published) Port authorities, terminals, charterers and shipping companies that want measured port call times
#5 Sensolus 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 Pool operators and manufacturers that track returnable packaging, containers, trailers, pallets and tools
#6 Shippeo France Pricing on request (not published) Shippers and logistics providers that run a separate TMS and want tracking and predicted ETAs on top
#7 Prewave Austria Not published; demo and sales-led quote Buyers in DORA or NIS2 scope who need disruption, sustainability and multi-tier supplier risk in one platform
#8 TIMOCOM Germany Tracking carries no extra fee inside the TIMOCOM Marketplace (vendor statement); the marketplace fees themselves are not listed on the pages reviewed Shippers and carriers that book road freight on the TIMOCOM marketplace and want position and ETA without a second tool
#9 SupplyOn Germany Quote on request; demo offered Automotive and industrial manufacturers whose suppliers already use SupplyOn for orders, quality or logistics
#10 Alpega Belgium Pricing on request (not published) Shippers with several plants or distribution centres that run multi-mode freight with many carriers
#11 Shiptify France Homepage shows EUR 89/month as the SME starting point; larger set-ups go through an online estimate form SMEs and mid-size shippers moving from spreadsheets and email threads to one transport tool

Every European supply chain visibility platform reviewed

#1 Wakeo

Lyon (registered seat per French company register), France Founded 2016 Pricing on request (not published) Demo on request

Best for: Importers, exporters and forwarders that move freight across several carriers, with long ocean legs

  • Operating company. Wakeo SAS
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. project44, FourKites

Wakeo takes events from carriers, forwarders and third-party sources, merges them into one control tower and recalculates arrival times as data changes. The tracking module covers sea, air, road, rail and parcel, and the screen is meant to surface only shipments with exceptions. Geofences and corridors around warehouses and terminals raise an email or SMS alert when a route deviates.

The French company register lists Wakeo SAS, created in July 2016 with its seat in Lyon, and the site says the team took over the Veroo software built at LKW WALTER. Access can be split by geography, entity or customer, and a partnership with sensor maker Tive adds temperature and humidity readings to alert rules. Reduced detention and demurrage figures on the site are vendor statements from customer cases.

What Wakeo does well

  • Tracks sea, air, road, rail and parcel together
  • Arrival times from machine learning, recomputed as data arrives
  • Lane reliability scores and a CO2 calculator are part of the product
  • Alerts can carry a forwarder's own branding for its customers
  • French SAS on the company register since 2016

Where Wakeo falls short

  • No published price
  • Hosting region not stated
  • Visibility only; planning and tendering stay in a TMS
  • Savings figures come from the vendor's own cases

Standout feature. Wakeo scores the reliability of whole trade lanes next to individual shipment tracking.

#2 Everysens

Lille, France Founded 2015 Demo on request, no public pricing Demo on request

Best for: Industrial shippers of steel, chemicals, automotive parts and farm goods that depend on rail freight

  • Operating company. Everysens SAS
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. project44 rail visibility, FourKites

Everysens designed its product around how rail behaves: wagons change trains, wait in yards and seldom carry their own GPS. The visibility module merges positions from several tracking sources on a map and predicts an arrival time for each block train and each single wagon, updating at every tracking event. The vendor says it pairs an AI-built theoretical journey with a global rail location database.

Everysens SAS is named in the legal notice with its Lille seat, and the company history on the site starts in 2015. A disruption can be declared in the tool with a reason and a responsible party, then followed until closed, while affected plant teams are notified of ETA changes. Ordering, planning, cost control and payment, a document vault and a carbon module share the same system.

What Everysens does well

  • Designed for rail rather than adapted from road tracking
  • ETAs for both block trains and single wagons
  • Disruptions logged with a reason and a responsible party
  • Ordering, planning, costs and documents in one system
  • Lille seat and register details given in the legal notice

Where Everysens falls short

  • Covers rail alone
  • Price only after a demo
  • Data location not stated
  • Reach is smaller than an all-mode platform

Standout feature. Everysens predicts arrival times for individual single wagons, not only for whole trains.

#3 Nexxiot

Zurich, Switzerland Pricing on request (not published) Demo on request

Best for: Owners and lessors of railcars, tank containers and intermodal units who want position data from their own equipment

  • Operating company. Nexxiot AG
  • Jurisdiction. Switzerland (adequacy decision, outside the EEA)
  • Where the data sits. Separate EU and US cloud instances (separate logins)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Telematics-based tracking from US visibility vendors

Nexxiot reads position and condition from the asset itself instead of waiting for a carrier status. Globehopper, for railcars and tank containers, reports every 5 minutes and carries an ATEX zone 1 or 21 rating; Globehopper Edge, for intermodal containers, reports every 15 to 60 minutes and carries a zone 2 rating. Both list a design life of up to 10 years, and add-on monitors cover temperature, kingpin and load.

Nexxiot AG is a Swiss company with its imprint in Zurich, and the security page says it follows both the Swiss data protection act and the GDPR. The cloud shows routes, mileage (the vendor states 99 percent accuracy), geofence alerts for border crossings and dwell time, and shock detection to assign damage. The login offers an EU and a US cloud instance, and the company states ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 since 2018.

What Nexxiot does well

  • Gateways rated for explosive atmospheres on hazardous cargo
  • Railcars report their position every 5 minutes
  • Impacts and mileage are recorded per asset
  • Third-party gateways and sensors can feed the same cloud
  • ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 stated from 2018

Where Nexxiot falls short

  • A device must be fitted to every asset
  • Price only on request
  • A US cloud instance exists beside the EU one
  • Limited to rail and intermodal equipment

Standout feature. Nexxiot publishes ATEX zone ratings for its gateways, so it can track hazardous cargo in rail tank cars.

#4 Teqplay

Rotterdam, Netherlands Pricing on request (not published) Demo on request

Best for: Port authorities, terminals, charterers and shipping companies that want measured port call times

  • Operating company. Teqplay B.V.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Ocean and port visibility modules of project44

Teqplay covers one slice of an ocean shipment: the time a vessel spends in and around a port. Port Reporter turns live vessel movements, including tug, pilot and mooring moves, into one record, and the timeline view lines up events per call. e-SOF and timestamps replace a hand-written statement of facts, and ETA and ETD predictions flag a call that starts to slip.

Teqplay B.V. gives a registered office on van Nelleweg in Rotterdam in its privacy statement. The vendor says it has monitored 750,000 port calls and works for more than 150 clients, both vendor figures, and that its solutions follow DCSA, ITPCO and TIC4.0 standards. Benchmarks compare terminals, ports and vessels to quantify waste in cargo movement.

What Teqplay does well

  • Port events down to tug and pilot movements
  • ETA and ETD predictions for arriving and departing vessels
  • Timestamps replace statements of facts written by hand
  • Terminal, port and vessel benchmarks
  • Follows DCSA, ITPCO and TIC4.0, per the vendor

Where Teqplay falls short

  • Covers maritime operations only
  • Pricing not published
  • Hosting region not stated
  • Built for operators more than for cargo owners

Standout feature. Teqplay records tug, pilot and mooring movements, which makes port call timestamps measured instead of reported.

#5 Sensolus

Ghent, Belgium Founded 2013 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 Demo on request

Best for: Pool operators and manufacturers that track returnable packaging, containers, trailers, pallets and tools

  • Operating company. Sensolus NV
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Belgium)
  • Where the data sits. Hosted on AWS; vendor says the data stays in Europe
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Asset tracking add-ons of project44 and FourKites

Sensolus follows things instead of shipments. Smart trackers work anywhere and suit containers, trailers and returnable packaging; location tags work inside controlled sites such as warehouses and factories and suit pallets, tools and inventory. The pricing page shows plans named Essential, Professional and Analytics, with utilization, stock and maintenance reports on the top tier.

Sensolus NV was founded in 2013 by four Belgians and says development is in-house; the contact page lists a Ghent head office with a Belgian VAT number, a Munich office and an Alpharetta office in the US. The security page describes AWS-hosted infrastructure with ISO 27001, and the about page says all data stays in Europe. Field agents for battery and firmware care are included.

What Sensolus does well

  • A price per asset is listed on the pricing page
  • GPS, BLE and Wi-Fi location from one platform
  • Firmware updates and device lifecycle included in the fee
  • Contracting entity and VAT number listed
  • Developed in-house since 2013

Where Sensolus falls short

  • Follows assets, not orders or carriers
  • Runs on AWS infrastructure
  • Volumes beyond the listed ones are quoted
  • Trackers must be fitted to each asset

Standout feature. Sensolus is the only tool in this category with an all-in monthly price per tracked asset on its own site.

#6 Shippeo

Paris, France Founded 2014 Pricing on request (not published) Demo on request

Best for: Shippers and logistics providers that run a separate TMS and want tracking and predicted ETAs on top

  • Operating company. Shippeo SAS
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. Storage managed in the EU (vendor statement)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Blue Yonder visibility, project44, FourKites

Shippeo sits beside planning and execution systems, not inside them. It tracks shipments across road, rail, sea and air, onboards carriers, connects to existing systems and produces predictive ETAs and exception alerts. The company says it follows a neutral model with no load matching or brokerage, and its AI agents clean up data entered by carriers.

Shippeo SAS is registered in Paris (RCS Paris 801 689 415), says it was founded in 2014 and reports more than 200 employees. The privacy page states storage is managed entirely in the EU with roles so each party sees only its own data, and the vendor lists ISO 27001. It also markets a guarantee on tracking completeness and delay prediction and cites a Gartner 2025 Leader placement, both vendor statements.

What Shippeo does well

  • Road, rail, sea and air tracked in one product
  • Vendor states storage is handled in the EU
  • ISO 27001 certification listed
  • No brokerage, so no competing freight business
  • Register number given in the legal notice

Where Shippeo falls short

  • Does not plan, tender or invoice freight
  • Price not published
  • Marketing site is hosted by a US company
  • Coverage depends on how well carriers are onboarded

Standout feature. Shippeo is the multimodal tracker here that states EU-managed storage as a claim of its own.

#7 Prewave

Vienna, Austria Founded 2017 Not published; demo and sales-led quote Demo on request

Best for: Buyers in DORA or NIS2 scope who need disruption, sustainability and multi-tier supplier risk in one platform

  • Operating company. Prewave
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Austria)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Interos, Riskrecon, Sayari

Prewave monitors the supplier base rather than the shipment. A Resilience track watches for operational disruption, a Sustainability track handles ESG compliance and reporting, and a Transparency track maps suppliers beyond tier one. The three share a platform that processes roughly 4.5 million data points a day across more than 200 risk types, according to the vendor.

Prewave is based in Vienna and was founded in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith. It was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Supplier Risk Management Solutions and an Innovator in the Verdantix Green Quadrant for supply chain sustainability software, both recognitions reported by the vendor. The pages reviewed state no certifications, hosting location or price, so due diligence has to ask for each.

What Prewave does well

  • Resilience, ESG and sub-tier mapping on a single platform
  • Gartner 2026 Leader placement for supplier risk management
  • About 4.5 million data points a day across 200+ risk types
  • Austrian company, EU-incorporated
  • Aimed at buyers subject to DORA and NIS2

Where Prewave falls short

  • A sales conversation is needed before a price appears
  • Certifications and hosting location not stated
  • No free trial or free tier disclosed
  • May be more than a single-rule buyer needs

Standout feature. Prewave maps suppliers beyond tier one, the layer that shipment trackers never see.

#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 Demo on request

Best for: Shippers and carriers that book road freight on the TIMOCOM marketplace and want position and ETA without a second tool

  • Operating company. TIMOCOM GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Road shipment tracking from project44

TIMOCOM attaches tracking to a transport order inside its freight exchange. After an order is created or recorded in the marketplace, the carrier picks how to report: telematics, GPS, the app or manual entry, and chooses whether the customer sees the vehicle position or only the ETA. The customer gets status notifications, delivery receipts and damage photos, and an API passes data to a TMS or ERP.

TIMOCOM GmbH is named in the legal notice with its seat in Erkrath, registered at the Dusseldorf local court (HRB 34489), and lists Dusseldorf as headquarters. The service page says Live Shipment Tracking costs nothing extra inside the marketplace, which is a vendor statement. Marketplace fees and data region are not given on the pages reviewed. A separate tracking service shows your own vehicles from connected telematics providers.

What TIMOCOM does well

  • No separate charge for tracking, per the vendor
  • Carriers can report by telematics, GPS, app or by hand
  • Carrier chooses to share position or only ETA
  • Data can flow into a TMS or ERP by API
  • German GmbH with a court register number

Where TIMOCOM falls short

  • Works only on orders placed through TIMOCOM
  • Concentrated on road freight
  • Marketplace fees not listed
  • Data location not stated

Standout feature. TIMOCOM lets the carrier decide whether the customer sees a live position or only an ETA.

#9 SupplyOn

Hallbergmoos, Germany Founded 2000 Quote on request; demo offered Demo on request

Best for: Automotive and industrial manufacturers whose suppliers already use SupplyOn for orders, quality or logistics

  • Operating company. SupplyOn GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Resilinc, Interos, bilateral supplier portals

SupplyOn is a collaboration platform for manufacturers, and its risk module is one product of that network. It links risk signals to the suppliers, materials and deliveries they affect, and its incident management collects impact feedback from suppliers when something goes wrong. If your suppliers use SupplyOn for orders, quality or logistics, risk information arrives next to the operational data.

SupplyOn GmbH in Hallbergmoos near Munich has operated since 2000, and Bosch, Schaeffler and ZF are among its shareholders. The vendor reports more than 140,000 companies on the network. The focus is operational risk, so it is not a cyber questionnaire tool or a due diligence suite for human-rights laws. Pricing is a quote, and certifications and hosting are not stated.

What SupplyOn does well

  • Ties risk signals to specific suppliers, materials and deliveries
  • Supplier impact feedback inside incident handling
  • More than 140,000 companies on the network
  • Bosch, Schaeffler and ZF among its shareholders
  • Operating from Germany since 2000

Where SupplyOn falls short

  • Operational risk only, not cyber or human-rights checks
  • Value is highest for automotive and similar manufacturers
  • Quote-only pricing
  • Certifications and hosting location not stated

Standout feature. SupplyOn is owned in part by Bosch, Schaeffler and ZF, the manufacturers that use its network.

#10 Alpega

Zaventem, Belgium Pricing on request (not published) Demo on request

Best for: Shippers with several plants or distribution centres that run multi-mode freight with many carriers

  • Operating company. Alpega TMS Belgium NV
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Belgium)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated on the pages reviewed
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Blue Yonder TMS, Oracle Transportation Management, SAP Transportation Management

Alpega is the group behind Alpega TMS, the TenderEasy tool and the Teleroute and Wtransnet freight exchanges, with the Transwide brand now on the same site. Its TMS plans, executes and settles shipments on one cloud platform and includes real-time visibility with predictive ETAs, tendering, order management and reporting. The vendor lists road, rail, sea and air.

The imprint names Alpega TMS Belgium NV in Zaventem, with sister companies in Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and a North American subsidiary in Chicago. The vendor says more than 80,000 verified carriers are reachable from the TMS through over 350,000 daily freight offers, and that SAP, Oracle and Dynamics templates allow a first site to go live in as little as three months. Those are claims to check in a scoped project.

What Alpega does well

  • Planning, execution and invoice settlement in one platform
  • Carrier network and freight exchange reachable from the TMS
  • Templates for SAP, Oracle and Dynamics
  • EU legal entities with register numbers shown
  • Road, rail, sea and air supported

Where Alpega falls short

  • Price not published
  • Large scope for small shippers
  • Data centre region not named
  • A scoped implementation project remains necessary

Standout feature. Alpega combines a TMS with a freight exchange, so planners can source spot capacity inside the same system.

#11 Shiptify

Nantes, France Homepage shows EUR 89/month as the SME starting point; larger set-ups go through an online estimate form Demo on request

Best for: SMEs and mid-size shippers moving from spreadsheets and email threads to one transport tool

  • Operating company. Shiptify SAS
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. Legal notice names Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (French branch) as application host
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Blue Yonder TMS, Excel and email-based transport management

Shiptify gathers four workflows in one tool: dock booking, shipment follow-up, billing and disputes. The TMS part is for shippers, and a consolidated view serves multi-site organisations. The homepage says SMEs can start at EUR 89 per month, and larger operations use an instant-estimate form built on the number of sites, monthly transport orders and shipment types.

Shiptify SAS is registered in Nantes (RCS Nantes 821 524 048), and the homepage claims that more than 20,000 companies collaborate on the platform daily, a vendor figure. The legal notice names Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, French branch, as application host, so the contracting company is French while the infrastructure belongs to a US group.

What Shiptify does well

  • An entry price is visible on the homepage
  • Dock booking, TMS and invoice checks in one product
  • Groups can consolidate several sites
  • French company with a register number
  • Estimate form for larger set-ups

Where Shiptify falls short

  • Runs on AWS
  • Higher tiers are quoted
  • Built for shippers, not carriers
  • Host belongs to a US group

Standout feature. Shiptify puts freight invoice control and dock booking in the same product as tracking, at a price shown on its homepage.

Which European platform replaces project44 if I ship by road, rail, sea and air?

Wakeo and Shippeo are the two candidates, because both list all four modes in one tracking view. Wakeo adds parcel, a route reliability score for trade lanes and a CO2 calculator, and lets a forwarder send alerts under its own brand. Shippeo positions itself as a layer beside an existing TMS, with carrier onboarding, exception alerts and storage it says is managed in the EU.

Run a pilot on your busiest lanes and ask each vendor for the list of your own carriers that are already connected. The count of modes on a feature page says little, because predicted arrival times are only as good as the carrier data feeding them. Neither vendor publishes prices, so the pilot is also when you obtain a quote.

What should I buy if I only need rail, ports or my own equipment tracked?

Pick the tool built for that one problem. Everysens concentrates on rail wagons and block trains for industrial shippers, with an incident log and planning modules. Teqplay measures what happens when a vessel is in port, from tug and pilot moves to e-SOF timestamps. Nexxiot and Sensolus attach hardware to assets: Nexxiot to railcars, tank containers and intermodal boxes, Sensolus to trailers, pallets and returnable packaging.

These tools answer different questions. Everysens and Teqplay report on shipments you contract. Nexxiot and Sensolus report on equipment you own or lease, which is why they fit lessors, pool operators and chemical shippers. A company with road, ocean and rail flows will end up with an all-mode platform plus one specialist.

Do Prewave and SupplyOn belong in a visibility project?

They belong when the visibility you lack is on the supplier side. Prewave scans for disruption, sustainability and multi-tier risk across supplier relationships and says it processes roughly 4.5 million data points a day. SupplyOn links risk signals to the suppliers, materials and deliveries affected and collects impact feedback from suppliers during an incident.

Neither one tells you where a container is. SupplyOn pays off mainly for manufacturers whose suppliers already use its network, which the vendor puts at more than 140,000 companies. Prewave is the broader pick if you also need ESG reporting and sub-tier mapping. Budget them as a separate line from carrier tracking.

How do pricing models differ across these tools?

Most of the eleven quote on request after a demo: Wakeo, Everysens, Nexxiot, Teqplay, Shippeo, Prewave, SupplyOn and Alpega. Three show something. Sensolus lists a monthly rate per asset that includes the hardware lifecycle, Shiptify shows EUR 89 per month as the SME starting point, and TIMOCOM says tracking is free inside its marketplace while its marketplace fees stay unpublished.

Expect the quoted tools to price by shipment volume, number of carriers or number of tracked assets, but the pages reviewed do not say so, so ask for the metric in the first call. For hardware vendors, ask whether devices are bought or leased, who replaces a failed unit and what the contract term is.

Is a European contract enough to keep tracking data out of US hands?

A European contracting entity moves the processing agreement inside the EU, the UK or Switzerland, which is the main legal gain over a US vendor that relies on the Data Privacy Framework. It does not settle where servers run. Sensolus is hosted on AWS and Shiptify names an Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL as application host, while Shippeo says its storage is managed in the EU.

Nexxiot is Swiss, outside the EEA, and operates separate EU and US cloud instances with separate logins, so confirm which instance your contract names. For Wakeo, Everysens, Teqplay, TIMOCOM, SupplyOn, Prewave and Alpega, the pages reviewed do not state a data location, which is a question for the sales call.

When should I stay with the incumbent instead of switching?

Stay if you depend on a large carrier network across every mode and have no pressure from legal or works council on the contracting entity. The incumbent platform covers visibility, TMS, yard and eCommerce modules, and none of the European tools here match that spread. Switching a working tracking setup also means reconnecting carriers and rebuilding API mappings into your ERP.

Move when a data protection review flags the transfer basis, when you use only one mode, or when you want a cheaper specialised tool. A staged move, with the European tool running on one lane first, keeps the downside small.

How we selected and ranked these 11 tools

Every tool on this page is in the European Purpose directory, which means the operating company is established in Europe and we have verified that from the company register or the vendor's own legal notice rather than from a marketing page. Tools headquartered outside Europe are not eligible, however good they are.

  1. Feature verification (weight: 40%). We check each capability against the vendor's own documentation and product pages, and record what the tool does rather than what the category is assumed to include.
  2. Ease of adoption (weight: 30%). Integrations, published API access, trial availability and how much configuration stands between signing and a usable result.
  3. Value and transparency (weight: 30%). Published pricing counts in a vendor's favour; quote-only pricing is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated. We weigh what a buyer gets for the entry price, not the headline feature count.
  4. Editorial review. Every page is researched and drafted with AI assistance, and the compliance and pricing claims are checked against the vendor's documentation before it is published under the founder's editorial responsibility. The three weights above decide the order; a position is a ranking against the other European tools in this category, not an absolute score.

Vendor-reported outcomes — ROI figures, margin uplift, time saved — are labelled as vendor claims wherever they appear on this page. We have not audited them, and neither has anyone else who quotes them. Read our full editorial process for how pages are re-verified.

Frequently asked questions

No single tool wins on every criterion. For tracking across road, rail, sea and air, Wakeo and Shippeo are the closest options. For rail only, Everysens. For port calls, Teqplay. For equipment, Nexxiot and Sensolus. For supplier risk, Prewave and SupplyOn. For tracking inside a TMS, Alpega and Shiptify. TIMOCOM suits road orders booked in its marketplace.

Sensolus lists EUR 6 per smart-tracker asset per month and EUR 1 per location tag per month. Shiptify shows EUR 89 per month for SMEs. TIMOCOM states that tracking is free within its marketplace. The rest ask you to book a demo.

Nexxiot and Sensolus. Nexxiot sells gateways for railcars, tank containers and intermodal units, and Sensolus sells trackers and location tags. The others work from carrier, telematics or sensor data feeds without fitting anything to your equipment.

Nexxiot AG is based in Zurich, so it is Swiss rather than EU. The site offers separate EU and US cloud instances, which means a European customer should check which instance its contract uses.

Alpega and Shiptify are TMS products. Wakeo and Shippeo are visibility layers and say planning and tendering stay in a TMS. Everysens combines rail visibility with ordering and planning for rail freight only.

Wakeo suits importers, exporters and forwarders with ocean flows. Shippeo suits shippers that already own a TMS. Teqplay suits ports and terminals. Sensolus suits pool operators. TIMOCOM suits users of its marketplace. Prewave and SupplyOn suit buyers who monitor suppliers.