Airfreight forwarding a better bet than ocean for investment this year
Forwarders more focused on airfreight will fare better this year than those with a higher ...
With the small, under the radar sale of its container haulage and vehicle repairs businesses, LSE-listed Wincanton (£360m market cap) recently reduced its business lines to contract logistics (CL) focused on only four (operating) verticals.
In doing so, it has inadvertently contributed to spotlighting a new subset of listed transport and logistics corporates, aka pure-play CL operators (PPCLOs) – and yep, if no one else is claiming it, we’re coining that one at Premium.
Recap
It was pretty clear to most freight industry ...
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