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“We’re getting the feeling and feedback from individual sources that this is the case,” one US forwarder executive said.
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Comment on this article
Steve Alaerts
January 21, 2022 at 6:53 amIt’s a hard time for freight forwarders, but there’s nothing new on the horizon. Indeed, shipping companies have always had specific preferences and ambitions to increase their footprint by offering forwarding services. After all, it is a free market, and everyone is free to invest in the activities they find valuable. It is now more visible, and service providers feel this more strongly because of the current capacity problems. Wait for all that ordered capacity to hit the market, and the situation will reverse somewhat. As long as no real novelty is introduced, which is not the case today, the situation seems to be temporary. So what is so drastically different about the same forwarding services but under shipping company wings?