Comment / Talk of Schenker, Flexport et al – and a meagre lunch for forwarders

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With earnings season* upon us, I didn’t know exactly where I was headed yesterday, 15 April, when I started talking franticly to a senior source.

(*JB Hunt opens the dance floor for land freight and intermodal with its Q1 24 interims after the US market closes today.)

Unwritten agenda of a written conversation: freight forwarders, challenges and opportunities, in the current market environment.

I already had several valuable nuggets lined up, “worth briefly touching upon”, I mused as I typed.

With DB Schenker firmly ...