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Digitisation could make freight forwarders redundant in the next 20 years unless they significantly adapt their business model.

As data in the supply chain becomes increasingly transparent, in a bid for seamless flows of information and cargo, the forwarders’ advantage ebbs, delegates heard at Air Cargo ...

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  • Robert Keen

    February 23, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    The usual rubbish predicting the demise of the forwarder. Forwarders adapt and evolve and will continue to do so long after the latest new fad technology has been superseded

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