Do the alliance (re)shuffle – pricing vs schedules
Putting the key question
Freightos claims to be able to offer guaranteed container capacity on ships, in a new feature on its booking platform.
The company said importers and exporters of all sizes can book “well-priced, guaranteed container space via an Asia-based vendor”.
It said the feature would “democratise” the market, allowing SMEs the ability to book capacity directly.
But the service raises several questions: notably, how can Freightos guarantee space when the shipping lines won’t?
Freightos chief executive, Ruthie Amaru, told The Loadstar that the company has ...
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Comment on this article
Stan Wraight
September 26, 2021 at 1:53 pmSo if I read this correctly, we now have another intermediary between the shipper and the carrier, a data provider? In air if this happens surely the Forwarder and GSSA will be bypassed? Or will it just be another situation where one more yield decreasing intermediary for the carrier is introduced. Amazing that airlines did not learn from their passenger colleagues and hotels of how this GDS system evolution was a very, very bad idea to support.