Air Freight

supplychaindive | September 18, 2017

Approximately two-thirds of logistics personnel expect that traditional air freight forwarding could shrink within the next five years due to tech start-ups, carriers and Amazon, based on a report called Global Freight Forwarding by Transport Intelligence, the Loadstar reported.The report states that only 17% of respondents believe there is no threat to freight forwarders, even as digitization continues to expand in influence....

Supply Chain Dive | March 14, 2018

Although air cargo volumes are expected to rise by 3% each year, air freight forwarders' "revenues may be almost flat," according to an analysis from McKinsey&Company. Traditional air freight forwarders must digitize to compete with digital freight forwarders and carriers improving their own digital channels. McKinsey predicts the role of intermediaries will shrink, posing a threat particularly to small forwarders that struggle to digitize their operations....

XPO Logistics | January 17, 2020

As one of the largest providers of transportation and logistics services worldwide, XPO Logistics serves over 50,000 customers. Supply Chain Digital takes a closer look at the firm. The company offers a range of different solutions. These are: drayage, expedite, full truckload, global forwarding, intermodal, last mile, less-than-truckload, managed transportation. With around 202mn sq.ft of facility space, XPO Logistics is considered one of the largest logistics providers worldwide. The organisat...

Flexcon | January 16, 2020

LeanCor Supply Chain Group, a provider of end-to-end supply chain management and logistics, announced that Flexcon, a supplier coated and laminated films and adhesives, has selected the company as its third-party logistics provider to manage logistics engineering and transportation execution in order to advance performance and deliver improved customer experience. LeanCor will engineer and manage Flexcon’s North American transportation network, providing a dedicated team of logisticians at...