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It is fair to say that over the past decade Google has – to some extent – had a major impact on most of our daily lives. But what will be its longer-term impact on the freight and logistics business? Obvious possibilities include advanced, “context-aware” search engines, its development of driverless vehicles and most intriguingly, but less well-known, the fact that it was issued with a container tracking patent last year.