Port single windows will cut 'unfair' box line levies
The deployment of digital ‘single windows’ in ports has the potential to bring considerable improvements ...
GM: RAISING THE ROOF GGM: IN FULL THROTTLE GZIM: MAERSK BOOST KNIN: READ-ACROSSMAERSK: NOT ENOUGHMAERSK: GUIDANCE UPGRADEZIM: ROLLERCOASTERCAT: HEAVY DUTYMAERSK: CATCHING UP PG: DESTOCKING PATTERNSPG: HEALTH CHECKWTC: THE FALLGXO: DEFENSIVE FWRD: RALLYING ON TAKEOVER TALKODFL: STEADY YIELDVW: NEW MODEL NEEDEDWTC: TAKING PROFIT
GM: RAISING THE ROOF GGM: IN FULL THROTTLE GZIM: MAERSK BOOST KNIN: READ-ACROSSMAERSK: NOT ENOUGHMAERSK: GUIDANCE UPGRADEZIM: ROLLERCOASTERCAT: HEAVY DUTYMAERSK: CATCHING UP PG: DESTOCKING PATTERNSPG: HEALTH CHECKWTC: THE FALLGXO: DEFENSIVE FWRD: RALLYING ON TAKEOVER TALKODFL: STEADY YIELDVW: NEW MODEL NEEDEDWTC: TAKING PROFIT
Logistics development manager at Alliance Shipping Bradley Waller has sat down with Air Cargo News to discuss the importance of freight forwarders and why supposed carrier plans to cut out the middlemen would fail. Mr Waller contends that airlines simply cannot duplicate the full range of services provided by freight forwarders to shippers. “Do they have the expertise or the resources to, for example, liaise with ground handlers in countries across the globe, arrange storage and delivery of the goods, or prepare documentation for payment, customs and insurance?” he asks. Rather than cut costs, he says to fulfil functions currently carried out by forwarders, carriers would have to extend their operational remit considerably. “This would add costs which, in all probability, would cancel out any proposed savings from cutting out the middleman.”
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