Don't underestimate the air freight forwarder: carrier digitisation is not market disruption
Digitisation of the air cargo industry will eat into the market share of traditional freight forwarders, ...
Freight forwarders have been slow to catch on to the rise and rise of e-commerce, thus preventing smaller retailers from being able to roll out their products globally, according to David Emerson, group sales and marketing director for SEKO Logistics.
“Where most companies have been focused ...
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Comment on this article
Lou Roll
December 09, 2013 at 2:11 pmAlso see this interesting and significant illustration:
“Alibaba invests $361 million in appliance maker’s ‘big goods’ logistics”:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/09/us-haier-alibaba-idUSBRE9B801120131209?feedType=RSS&feedName=innovationNews
steven ingels
December 09, 2013 at 3:59 pmFor the gurus…
What is the projected wt per shipment?
What is the projected profit per shipment?
In 5 years what % of the domestic and international market will it capture?
Ethan Buchman
December 12, 2013 at 11:09 amThe article talks about e-Commerce and the impact on freight…but why are freight forwarders immune to actually selling online? Even more advanced forwarders generally only have a form you fill out to request a quote, which only then leads to a phone call or email with the quote. I wrote about thi last week on my blog: http://blog.freightos.com/day-delivery-check-day-quoting/