Larger customs brokers and
forwarders in Florida may resort to temporarily moving some employees to offices outside the storm zone.
'If you go back to the Act, you will see that the training of freight
forwarders is utmost.
ETL is of the view that recent public statements by various factions point to a lack of understanding of the Hub Act, the actual role of the freight
forwarder, the documentation process and the individual responsibilities and liabilities of the multiple parties involved in the process.
NAFL is also the first national association of freight
forwarders to be established in the Arabian Gulf and to join International Federation of Freight
Forwarders Associations (FIATA).
"It was a pleasure to find out we were nominated in the category and a great honour to win Freight
Forwarder of the Year once again.
As savvy
forwarders embrace and utilize more sophisticated digitized solutions to set them apart from the pack, industry analysts are seeing the race narrowing.
There is a visible pressure from the digitized
forwarders towards their traditional competitors.
They also result in reduction of the path from source to destination, buffer size of
forwarder nodes and data traffic.
CPS will broaden Air New Zealand Cargo's reach to the more than 6,000
forwarders and shippers from 3,750 branch offices of 2,200 companies who are active users of CPS, spanning 330 cities in 105 countries.
Given Amazon's new deal with Air Transport Services, freight
forwarders and air cargo companies have reason to worry that they are the next vertical to be disrupted.
On the other hand, a wide variety of articles sold via the FMS program can be transported by a commercial freight
forwarder. Given the reduction in US forces over the last several years, coupled with the drawdown of forces in operations within the US Central Command Area of Operation (AOR), a variety of the capabilities that were previously used to deliver FMS materiel have dried up.
Qatar Airways Cargo, now led by Ulie Ogiermann, former CEO of Cargolux, clearly understands
forwarder needs and air carrier deficiencies on the service side.