Expeditors out of court – this is pretty damn weird
This is so Kafkaesque
… on volumes!
(According to the meagre available information, anyway.)
OK, so: we recently mentioned China’s Sinotrans, in passing, as one of the most prominent freight forwarders worldwide fighting in the air/ocean league tables to gain market share among the big four 3PLs from Europe and their US rivals.
For the record, and why its achievements matter: if we go with the available numbers from Transport Intelligence (Ti), globally pre-peak it ranked eighth in air by tonnes in 2021, and second by ...
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