News / Shifts in procurement a threat and opportunity for forwarders

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Supply chain disruption from Covid-19 fundamentally altered shipper attitudes towards logistics procurement, placing providers in a precarious position.

Head of airfreight at DB Schenker Asok Kumar told delegates at the World Cargo Summit in Abu Dhabi last week the havoc wreaked by the pandemic led shippers to diversify logistics activities and shift control around – changes he believes are permanent.

“After all that disruption, shippers realised they could no longer rely on one, two, or even three logistics providers, they needed to ...