News / New technology may point the way freight forwarders can pull back eroding margins

17/06/2016

Despite some recent positive gains in sea freight rates, the trade is expected to remain unprofitable not just for carriers, but also for the freight forwarders which book the cargo.

According to a new survey of senior freight forwarding executives released this week, only 17% of respondents believe ...

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Nick P
June 17, 2016 at 2:29 pm
The air-cargo industry needs to modernise its technology to deliver the Customer’s expectations. Technology in and of itself isn’t the panacea though. Air-cargo businesses need to change their business processes to take advantage of the already available technology (let alone the new stuff coming through). It’s through those changed business processes that true value will be extracted.

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