General airfreight in the doldrums – but charters are soaring
While scheduled airfreight operations continue to be buffeted by economic headwinds, the going has been ...
By Alex Lennane
Volga-Dnepr’s decision to stop using brokers for its Antonov and Ilyushin business has divided the market.
Many forwarders are supporting the decision – as one major forwarder told The Loadstar: “What VDA chooses to do with brokers is its own business.
“As we don’t go through brokers for charters, but approach carriers directly, I don’t see anything changing in our approach with VDA.”
And as that forwarder suggested, LSPs don’t necessarily need brokers and often see them as simply another layer of cost.
Others, ...
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