Shippers call for logistics providers to team up and create more efficiencies

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One of the world’s major shippers, US manufacturer 3M, has forced its competing logistics service providers to work together in a bid to reduce transport costs across its European operations.

Speaking on the sidelines of this week’s Intermodal Europe event in Amsterdam, DHL’s IT business development lead for the EMEA region, Jaco Voorspuij, told The Loadstar that in redesigning its delivery network to customers, 3M had brought the German logistics giant together with Austrian freight and logistics enterprise Gebruder Weiss.

“This is ...