project44 Expands Preferred Carrier Program to Strengthen Data-Driven Freight Decisions

New updates have been reported about project44.

project44 has named 3,745 transportation providers across 52 countries to its 2026 Preferred Carriers list, a data-driven designation that highlights the top one percent of the company’s 259,000-plus active carrier network based on shipment volume, data availability, and data quality over the past year. The announcement comes as shippers face heightened legal scrutiny in carrier selection following the Montgomery v. Caribe Transport Supreme Court ruling, positioning project44’s credentialing as a defensible, auditable signal for procurement and routing decisions.

By embedding Preferred Carrier status inside its Intelligent TMS, alongside Carrier Assure Scores, cost, and on-time performance, project44 is deepening integration between its Decision Intelligence Platform and carrier selection workflows, effectively steering shipper spend toward partners that support autonomous, data-rich execution. Management highlights that leading carriers across ocean, truckload, less-than-truckload, rail, and Asia-Pacific markets are not only sharing visibility data but are tightly integrated via APIs for booking, electronic bills of lading, and document flows, which reduces manual overhead and accelerates time-to-value for new shipper and LSP customers.

The 2026 cohort’s global scope reinforces project44’s competitive positioning as a scaled, multi-modal data network spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, making it more likely that new customers’ incumbents are already connected and ready for rapid onboarding. Executives frame these carriers as the operational backbone for agentic and autonomous supply chain models, arguing that consistent, high-quality data at scale is now a prerequisite for lowering logistics costs and improving reliability.

For project44, the program acts as both a quality filter and a commercial lever, as carriers pursuing Preferred status are encouraged to deepen their integration with the platform, which can unlock freight contracts, improve network density, and enhance stickiness of the ecosystem. The company’s broader strategy centers on using its real-time logistics data graph and context-based AI to unify transportation management, visibility, yard, and last-mile functions, with the Preferred Carrier Program serving as a key differentiator in a market where documented, objective carrier performance is increasingly critical for risk management and regulatory compliance.