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What Can Freight Forwarding Learn from Airbnb? – A guest post from Container xChange

Freightos

Of course, you wouldn’t because it would be hard to trust the results or advice from strangers. While people find it easy to book things like accommodations online, container owners and freight forwarders or shippers looking for available Shipper Owned Containers (SOCs) often still struggle to connect with trusted partners.

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Sending Freight Together

Logistics Business Magazine

David Priestman met with a digital freight forwarder making this happen across Europe. The company’s forte is as a full truckload (FTL) third party logistics (3PL) broker for European road freight contracts. But Sennder claim originality in FTL and to be Europe’s largest digital freight forwarder.

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Top 25 Freight Forwarders 2017: Digitization & E-Commerce continue to reshape the marketplace

The Logistics Academy

The global freight forwarding market has grown by 2.7% in real terms since this time last year, but owing to a continuation of excess capacity issues and lower average oil prices, rates continue to fall in both air and sea freight. Top 25 Global Freight Forwarders. DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding.

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TransLogistica Romania Bucharest

Logistics Business Magazine

Promising to be a dynamic convergence of leading players in the logistics industry, this event is poised to showcase the latest innovations, trends, and solutions driving the sector forward. Logistics Business will also be exhibiting.

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When it Comes to Ocean Shipping, We Have to See Beyond Today’s Squalls and Plan for the Long Term

Logistics Viewpoints

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. 1 carrier stopping its dealings with even a portion of the world’s freight forwarders?

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BIFA supports National Careers Week

Logistics Business Magazine

With youth unemployment remaining high and BIFA members concerned about the shortage of certain industry skills, there has never been a bigger need for careers guidance to be promoted. ’ Sam’s career in the shipping industry started at the age of 16, when he joined a leading service provider on an apprenticeship scheme.

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U-Freight sees e-commerce logistics opportunities

Logistics Business Magazine

in 2020 and will hit EUR557 billion by 2025, Simon Wong, CEO of the U-Freight Group , says his company is ready to meet the ever-increasing challenges of providing logistics services to this rapidly expanding sector of global trade. Commenting on a recent report that suggests the global e-commerce logistics market grew by 27.3%