News / Shippers must forecast their freight capacity needs better, say forwarders

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Shippers must become more accurate with their forecasting, say forwarders, particularly when it comes to air freight.

At a customer event yesterday, Flexport’s head of air freight, Neel Jones Shah, urged shippers: “You need to plan ahead for 2021.”

He added: “Forecasting tools have never been more critical. You don’t have the luxury of air cargo capacity sitting on the sidelines, you have to get it right. And you need to ask your forwarder if it has the right mix of capacity available ...