News / Container shipping 'must reinvent itself' for the digital age – Damco looks ahead

Maersk’s 3PL subsidiary Damco has established a wholly-owned digital freight forwarder so it can compete with the rapid growth in the sector and act as a conduit for new business for the group.

Speaking to The Loadstar at the Multimodal exhibition in Birmingham, Twill Logistics chief executive Troels Stovring said the container shipping industry needed to “reinvent itself” after decades of inertia and offer shippers value-added products.

“The ships are the same, the rates are much the same and, with the alliance reshuffle, shippers ...