Unreliable and fragmented supply chains are failing the shipper, warns analyst

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International container supply chains are so far failing to provide shippers with a joined-up product, increasing structural unreliability and creating lingering uncertainty over who is best placed to offer inland and intermodal services.

David Charlesworth, senior adviser at Drewry Supply Chain Advisers told delegates at the recent TOC Container Supply Chain event in Rotterdam that shipping lines, forwarders, intermodal operators and even terminals had so far failed to properly work together because they still have yet to define where they collaborate ...