How Are Ship Agents And Shipbrokers Keeping Up With Digitalization?

  • New and adjusted services emerging in the shipping industry to enhance service levels and provide added value.
  • Digitalization will provide the means to exchange information between the ship agent and the shipbroker in greater detail, and in real-time. 
  • The emerging landscape of digitalizing maritime operations is proving to be a challenge for them and therefore, must pay attention to new opportunities and ways of doing business.
  • However, there lies an opportunity to also provide more enhanced...

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Shipping Agents Need To Scale Down To Supply Local Market Information: Cartegana CEO

According to a loadstar article, ship agents will need to reinvent themselves as information providers to shipping lines, if they are to survive in a rapidly changing industry.

Danger of Extinction?

On the sidelines of last week’s TOC Americas Container Supply Chain event in Cartagena, Matthew Tayler chief executive of Chile-headquartered ship agency Empresas Taylor, told The Loadstar the ship agency business was in danger of extinction unless it radically overhauled itself.

“The traditional ship...

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‘Ship agents must reinvent themselves, or they won’t survive’

Ship agents will need to reinvent themselves as information providers to shipping lines, if they are to survive in a rapidly changing industry.
On the sidelines of last week’s TOC Americas Container Supply Chain event in Cartagena, Matthew Tayler chief executive of Chile-headquartered ship agency Empresas Taylor, told The Loadstar the ship agency business was in danger of extinction unless it radically overhauled itself.
“The traditional ship agency business model is dying. Ship …

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