'Greener' flying moves up the agenda of forwarders sourcing air cargo services
Large forwarders choosing where to award their airfreight contracts will not consider “dirty” airlines, as ...
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By Alex Lennane
Shippers should be allowed more access to airlines to book directly, according to the new chairman of TIACA’s shipper advisory council.
Lars Droog, head of EMEA Supply Chain for chemicals company Tosoh Corp, complained that despite spending millions on air freight, he has no contact with the airline.
“We spend relatively small amounts of money on passenger tickets and get emails from the airlines all the time. We spend millions on air freight, but whenever I try to contact an airline, I ...
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Arda
March 14, 2016 at 5:51 pmStrange ! If very keen on dealing with airline directly , set up a sister company get relevant license of home country then apply for IATA and do as you wish. Comparing with passenger transport and freight also doesnt make sense. In many countries many shippers even unaware how to pack their export goods.
Sam
March 15, 2016 at 10:59 amAgree with previous comment. We do a proper job, and internalizing it maybe seems a good option for some, but most certainly is not for a lot of others…
Besides, would shippers be also willing to get debited directly and automatically via CASS instead of paying our invoices 60 days later ?
maurice
March 02, 2017 at 9:29 pmAuthor’s logic comes out of the fact that he completely doesn’t understand what freight forwarder job is about, or what export or import is about. It is not just about BOOKING. It is about proper packaging, documentation, customs compliance, transport coordination, costing and so on and go on. Typical for “The Suits”…no idea about operational side of this job.