News / The UN has up to $1bn to spend on logistics, and is looking for more cargo partners

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It’s not often that a shipper with a near-$1bn annual spend on logistics urges all parts of the industry to bid for tenders, but the UN procurement team has called for airlines, forwarders and shipping lines to register on its new website, as it is seeking more cargo partners.

The UN Secretariat’s total procurement budget in 2014 was $3bn, of which $750m went to aviation and some $170m on freight forwarding. The total UN spend on ‘Transportation, Storage and Mail’ was ...