News / Integrators and e-commerce giants a real threat to air freight forwarders

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More than two-thirds of the logistics industry believes traditional air freight forwarding will lose volumes in the next five years to tech start-ups, carriers and companies such as Amazon.

According to Transport Intelligence’s (Ti) Global Freight Forwarding report, only 17% think there will be no disruption to air freight forwarding.

Air freight appears to be under a greater ‘threat’ for traditional forwarders than sea freight, where only half of the respondents to the survey thought traditional forwarders would lose market share.

The reason, ...