Five keys to 'successful freight forwarding in an uncertain world'
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Ten shipper and forwarder organisations have urged the EC to bring forward the review of the Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER).
In a letter to EC executive VP Margrethe Vestager, shippers take issue with the commission’s view that competition in the market is strong and working ...
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gunther ginckels
July 25, 2022 at 2:19 pmAgree with the Forwarders & Shippers – re-install conferences allowing capacity and rate sharing. Be careful not to throw the baby out with the dirty bath water. Strange – no complaints from forwarders & shippers when during the period 2013-2018 the EBIT of the top-carriers was almost permanently negative. One can ask whether the position of container carriers is action or reaction? And who will pull money out of the draws when carriers will have to invest in environmental technology? Fingerpointing will not solve anything while mainly shippers and forwarders continue to refuse data sharing allowing economic synchromodal logistics and they remain on the burning platform.