Farewell to the freight forwarder?

FOR those of us who have been in the shipping industry since the beginning of the seventies, constant unsettling change has been a fact of life. Practically every aspect of the shipping industry has changed almost beyond recognition over the past five decades.

In the liner trades, the real game changer has, of course, been the container. The "box" turned an industry, which worked on a business model based on the value of the cargo, upside down.

Broadly speaking, the container is the car…