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More than two decades on from KLM Cargo’s calamitous efforts to bypass forwarders, it seems airlines are again considering this. An anonymous head of cargo at an airfreight carrier told Air Cargo News a convergence of factors had led the airline to prepare for direct engagement with shippers. The chief deciding factor, said the cargo head, was shippers’ needs to curtail costs and the evolution of tools that facilitate direct dealings with airlines – presumably booking platforms. But that only solves the airport-to-airport ...

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  • Silvia Macieira

    September 25, 2017 at 2:39 pm

    Think this is such a poor report that it shouldn’t be published like that.
    Either more information to back it up or simply wave the news from being published because it sounds like gossip or hearsaying.

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