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DHL Global Forwarding launches new online booking platform

DHL Global Forwarding has launched a new online quote and booking platform for air and ocean shipments.
The decision follows other operators already offering online booking, while Australia’s Toll Group last month outsourced its online needs to Kontainers in a three-year deal.
However, DHL GF has opted to develop its own service, DHLi Quote & Book, which chief executive Tim Schwarth claimed would be the market’s “most user-friendly” system.
“With this new service, …

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Toll and Kontainers ink three-year deal

Toll Group(Toll), the Asia Pacific region’s leading provider of transport and logistics, and part of Japan Post, has signed a three-year software contract with Kontainers, the UK-based Enterprise software company, to power its global digital client-facing platforms.

The new agreement will see Toll introduce Kontainers’ flagship product, Enterprise, to its Global Forwarding operations from Q4 2019.

The online portal will enable Toll to better service and support the needs of its customers –...

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Toll Group opts for Kontainers as forwarder plans online booking service

Toll Group will soon be offering its customers an online booking platform, following the forwarder’s three-year, $1.15m contract with Kontainers. 
The software company’s flagship product, Enterprise, will be available to Toll Global Forwarding customers from Q4 and will allow them to get quotes, book and manage shipments and receive real-time analytics. 
And another major deal with Kontainers is expected as soon as this quarter, linked to the new portal of Zim Integrated Shipping.
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Market Insight: WiseTech may be today’s leader, but it’s not a one horse race

The outstanding writing by Russell Wood on Premium over the past two weeks – in particular, his in-depth analysis of DHL Global Forwarding’s botched in-house digital transformation project and the transforming effect that subsequently had on WiseTech Global, here and here if you haven’t read it not done so already – whetted my appetite for the latest IT developments for freight forwarders and other supply chain actors.
I thus found myself looking …

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Market Insight: Q&A with Kontainers’ Graham Parker – freight tech is the real deal

I had the pleasure of talking to Graham Parker, chief executive and co-founder of Kontainers, about what he terms the “inevitable collision of freight forwarding and SaaS”.
His own career history is steeped in freight forwarding, and he was able to share some fascinating insight on what’s happening in freight tech, and what lies ahead for the incumbents and the disruptors.
The ‘point of no return’
“Coming from a decade-plus forwarding career, …

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Kontainers offers smaller forwarders the chance to compete online

UK digital ocean freight start-up Kontainers plans to make further inroads into the freight forwarding community this year with a new product designed to appeal to small-to-medium freight forwarders (SMEs).
Kontainers Essential will be debuted at the Transpacific Maritime conference in Long Beach in March. It draws on the same sort of web development technology that site builder Wix has used.
Kontainers chief executive Graham Parker told The Loadstar every freight forwarder and …

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Jesper Thomsen and John Gilleran now key advisers to Kontainers

Kontainers, an enterprise software as a service (SaaS) company serving carriers and freight forwarders with their own branded platforms, has announced the appointment two key advisers – Jesper Thomsen (pictured above) and John Gilleran.
Last year, the company signed several top-10 shipping lines and top-20 freight forwarders.
Mr Thomsen, a Maersk Line veteran where he was vice president for the global sales and customer service functions and also led its digital transformation …

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