HMM steams in with early (for box shipping) adoption of eB/Ls
South Korean state enterprise-owned shipping line HMM has this week committed to adopting electronic bills ...
Incumbent forwarders with an interest in obscuring transparency have played a role in slowing efforts to digitalise the industry, according to Martin Ring, global chief operations officer for Damco.
“There are forces in the industry that might not have had a great interest in accelerating digitalisation,” he told event group eft.
“That’s what they made a living out of – making the complicated understandable. And of course, when you see more digitilisation, you get more transparency and more simplicity, and that, so to speak, lowers the bar of entry for ...
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