In Descartes' and AfA's 2017 Forwarder & Broker Benchmark Survey, the gap between the top-performing airfreight forwarders and those at the bottom, in terms of profit margins, appears to be growing wider and the major differentiator is technology. Re
In a recent “Forwarder & Broker Benchmark Survey,” sponsored by AfA and Descartes, more than 200 forwarders, brokers and NVOCCs about their views on the value of technology. One finding? The gap between the top-performing airfreight forwarders and
Glenn Palanacki's article, published earlier this month in Parcel Magazine, discusses the mandatory requirements of eManifest for freight forwarders, including key dates regarding penalties for non-compliance.
This guest post by Descartes' Cindy Yamamoto focuses on Canada's eManifest for freight forwarders, which went into effect January 11 and requires forwarders to electronically submit the who, what, when and where of a shipment to the Canada Border