News / Maersk's digital drive into India's trucking sector via tie-up with online platform

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Maersk is partnering with Indian online marketplace Blackbuck in an effort to modernise the country’s container trucking supply chain.

The move comes amid “ambitious” efforts by the Indian government to reduce logistics costs to 9% of GDP by 2022, a drop of 5%.

Head of sales for Maersk in South Asia Arjun Maharaj said: “Our customers are dealing with fragmented vendors with varying service levels of communication, geographical, financial and infrastructural disparities, resulting in suboptimal supply chains.

“We are committed to working with ...