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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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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

However, alternative routings that combine ocean freight and air freight reveal a tremendous opportunity to decrease cost and transit times, benefiting the entirety of the value chain. Of course, the economic viability of these types of shipments is limited to specific commodities.

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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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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. Maersk has unabashedly championed vertical integration for years, advocating an “end-to-end” strategy. No end to end-to-end.

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Deutsche Post DHL Group | Mar 07, 2018: Deutsche Post DHL Group meets 2017 EBIT-guidance

247 Customs Broker

Deutsche Post DHL Group can look back on another very good financial year. The Group’s operating profit climbed by 7.2% Group revenue was up by 5.4% Deutsche Post DHL Group has applied the IFRS 16 accounting standard with effect from the beginning of 2018. billion in the 2017 financial year. billion to this total.

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Hellmann Achieves Record Result

Logistics Business Magazine

For example, even during continued market disruptions from the COVID pandemic and the war against Ukraine, the Group stuck to its digitalization strategy and invested significantly in digitalization of business processes and forward-looking technologies. With the guiding principle of ‘For the better.

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Kuehne + Nagel Ventures Forth with a New Global Initiative

Logistics Manager

The proverbial waves of change will still often come crashing down and it’s always best to have a course of action mapped out. In 2008, amidst a cluster group revamp for Kuehne + Nagel, I moved to Singapore to take on an operational sea freight management role. I worked there for another 2 ½ years before arriving in Thailand.