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By Mike Wackett
In its latest blog, Damco looks at the potential cost savings and efficiency gains for shippers of concentrating their traffic on fewer ports.
Notwithstanding the possible advantages of increasing supply chain options from utilising more ports the freight forwarder says that there is usually scope to rationalise the number of ports that a shipper uses, given that these may have grown over time without any underlying logic.
Damco quotes the example of a UK-based retailer client, whose 40,000 products, mainly imported from China, were being shipped ...
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