Port single windows will cut 'unfair' box line levies
The deployment of digital ‘single windows’ in ports has the potential to bring considerable improvements ...
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By Alex Lennane
Digital disruptors will no more kill-off today’s forwarding sector than the advent of European rail did in the 1800s, according to director general of the British International Freight Association (BIFA), Robert Keen.
Mr Keen said it was simply “PR puff” to claim, as new ’digital’ forwarder Beacon did yesterday, that the acceleration of digitalisation resulting from Covid-19 makes the future of the traditional freight forwarder more ‘precarious’ than ever.
“Over the past five years, I have read reports that suggest the rise ...
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Pichuiyer Balasubramanian
June 03, 2020 at 3:08 amIf this is true, then why IATA E AWB adoption globally still stays at a pathetic 68%? Let us not kid ourselves that we fully ‘adapt’ to technology – we are not. We seem to be happy for us to order stuff from our smart phone and our kids do it all the time but when it comes to business…… we seem to have a different yardstick. We still need to look at the mirror and answer. I hope we do.
Tommy
June 07, 2020 at 8:06 amNandbala,
The 68% is not due to technology.