Comment / WCL's Hans Willam: 'M&A, not tech, will shape the supply chain'

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By Alessandro Pasetti

16/02/2024

Some don’t like him at all. Others just happen to love him.

“Yes.”

Either way, Hans J. Willam (pictured below) of Hamburg-based Worldwide Consultants in Logistics GmbH (WCL) – of which he has been the mastermind for a quarter of a century – frequently comes up in conversations with people that matter in transport and logistics.

Quite pertinently, I think, I still vividly recall his ’Super-NVOCC triumvirate’ thoughts, shared with Premium right in the middle of the pandemic. Stretching brains, he publicly challenged existing ...

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