Harnessing tech for better transport

In this "information age", where instant messaging and the use of sophisticated software to manage data is becoming increasingly important, it is hard to imagine an industry worth 5.4 trillion yuan ($871 billion) using e-mails to communicate and relying on Excel spreadsheets to store information.

But the reality is that some of China's largest business-to-business transportation industry firms are still not making use of technology advances, resulting in higher costs and lower efficiency, especially compared with similar companies operating in the United States and Europe.

It is this lacunae that has provided an opportunity for Poland-born Mirek Dabrowski to start his own transportation software enterprise in Shanghai and shake the industry with a new concept.