DP World's Horn of Africa investment – enter the US?
It’s more than just a money thing
With free trade under threat and globalisation slowing, terminal operator DP World plans to give container supply chains a boost with “an integrated, asset-based approach” to logistics and digitisation.
Andrew Hoad, DP World’s chief executive for Asia Pacific, said digitisation was paving the way for new efficiencies and opportunities to give trade a “helping hand”.
“If transport and logistics providers can really get their act together on digital and on the physical conveyance of goods, so much cost can be taken out ...
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