Relentless pressure on costs has forced shipping lines to embrace the wave of digitisation sweeping the ocean container freight industry.
Frank Smet, chief commercial officer at Hamburg Süd, told delegates at the keynote session of the TOC Americas Container Supply Chain conference in Cartagena yesterday that the only way to reverse the carrier industry’s eroding margins was to eliminate the additional costs it often needlessly incurred.
And the best way of achieving …

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