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OpenTug, through its BargeOS AI-native platform, strives to enhance visibility, reduce delays and drive value for farmers and cooperatives, including CHS

Leading TMS integrates OpenTug’s marine voyage quoting and tracking, enhancing shippers' visibility and control over multi-modal supply chains.

OpenTug and Telegraph announced a strategic partnership focused on delivering integrated visibility across North American barge and rail freight networks.

These companies aren’t just innovating—they’re building factories, facilities, and systems that strengthen U.S. supply chains and create domestic jobs.

This article explores why barge transportation remains one of the least digitized sectors in logistics and argues that purpose-driven digital transformation is essential to improve visibility, efficiency, resilience, and competitiveness across the inland marine industry.

Waterways Journals sits down with Jason Aristides, Founder and CEO of OpenTug, leading the company’s mission to modernize barge transportation through data-driven software solutions that improve efficiency, visibility, safety, and profitability across marine logistics operations.

In this episode of Marine Log‘s Listen Up! podcast, we’re joined by Mitch Melton, head of business development at OpenTug, an AI native marine commercial and logistics software platform.

On Episode 841 of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, Dooner is coming to you live from FreightWaves’ Domestic Supply Chain Summit where OpenTug CEO and co-founder Jason Aristides barges right in and gives us a crash course on the power of inland waterways.

While much of the freight world is focused on trucks, planes, and container ships, there’s a quieter powerhouse moving freight across the United States: barges. Inland waterways form a 12,000-mile freight network that carries some of the heaviest, most critical commodities in the country. Yet until recently, this sector remained largely disconnected from the digital logistics revolution.

OpenTug is changing that. CEO Jason Aristides joined us to share how his company is bringing visibility, automation, and a marketplace model to inland and coastal waterway shipping.

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The combination of barging's inherent efficiency with digital visibility represents an immediate opportunity to advance sustainability in the transportation sector. Here's how.

Read this article in SDCE written by Mike Baldwin, COO of OpenTug and learn about how a collaborative approach between industry experience and AI-powered technology forms the path forward for marine logistics.