Airfreight rates ex-China 'loss-making', but hopes of a trade deal stay high
Despite “loss-making” airfreight rates offered for Hong Kong/China-US, Chinese forwarders seem optimistic that the trade ...
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By Alex Lennane
Shippers and forwarders are both set to benefit from online transactions, according to Freightos, the online booking platform for shippers which launched last month.
The company, which has been developing the platform for the past four years, aims to make booking freight services much like booking a holiday or flight – simple and fast. But there is still much work to do in changing the mindset and culture of both buyers and sellers.
“Forwarders are much happier than I thought they would ...
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Stefan
August 12, 2016 at 6:38 pmCongrats, however this is not disrupting the industry, it is just giving more power and revenues to biggest players on the market. At 45HC.com you will get our own rates, we are in service of customers not big logistic companies… Let’s rock the shipping industry 🙂