Comment / Big restructure underway at prominent private forwarder in Germany

“It’s a shit show out there.”

Everywhere.

Happy Fridays?

Those recent remarks from senior sources perfectly sum up a week of extensive talk at my end about freight forwarding and the power of people (or the lack thereof, nowadays), once the most valuable asset in the asset-light subset of transport and logistics (T&L).

Several market leaders in their fields from east to west, from across all the time zones have shared their concern, just as we approach the holiday season – while, unfortunately, another ...