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, ...
The Loadstar was rather bemused to receive a press release from DHL Global Forwarding, the troubled German behemoth which has faced a slew of unhappy stories this year leaked by unhappy employees.
It recorded that DHL Global Forwarding US had been recognised as one of the top 20 US companies (number 16, in fact) to sell for.
Interestingly, given the year it’s had, the company didn’t feature at all on the 2014 or 2013 lists, so things must either have been truly ...
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Comment on this article
Peter
October 11, 2015 at 3:46 pmI was a DGF employee from 2011-2013 and I must say that this article reflects all that DGF is.
When I left, I actually thought that the company was heading this way. NFE, the new business interface was a mess, with lots of errors. Managers are complete dickheads that don’t add anything to the company, being analysts who do all their work.
I thought about coming back then I realized that this was the one place I would never come back.