Big growth in groupage from Asia

The launch of scheduled, named-day consolidation services from Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan is paying dividends for neutral groupage operator CFR Freight. “Prime carriers are utilised and capacity is secured on a contracted basis, ensuring optimum service and transit times,” says marketing director Peter Schmidt-Löffler. “CFR Freight expects volumes to continue to increase in the months ahead leading up to the traditional peak season, when experience has shown that access to capacity and not merely rate becomes the bigger challenge to freight forwarders.”