News / Liner exec calls for staff skills drive - "shipping salespeople might as well be Lidl cashiers"

21/06/2016

Container shipping lines will never be able to return to sustainable profitability unless they stop thinking like “bean-counters” and begin to invest in skilled staff.

At last week’s TOC Container Supply Chain conference in Hamburg, Franck Kayser, a veteran container shipping industry executive whose latest role ...

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Peter Parker
June 22, 2016 at 1:26 am
Another poorly written article – grammar wise. You need to re-read your articles before publishing. Maybe a native English speaker should cross check?

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- Alex Lennane
  June 22, 2016 at 9:22 am
  Apologies again. Typos corrected.
  
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Daniel Lashinski
June 30, 2016 at 7:41 pm
It is indeed sad and the captain is entirely correct about price driving out service in a race to the bottom. What I do not understand is how companies like Xeneta are permitted to allow shippers to disclose confidential information to the detriment of carriers and ultimately the shipping public.

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