INBOUND LOGISTICS’ 2007 CARRIER GUIDE
O cean carriers are casting off in new directions, offering their demanding global customers a wide range of service expansions and updating their arsenal of web tools to keep tech-savvy shippers happy. Heeding the call for efficient, timely, and cost-effective transportation, ocean carriers have been busy adding sailings to new markets; cutting transit times; expanding offerings to include specialty services such as ocean/LCL delivery or on-demand heavy-lift; and bulking up their fleets with modernized, environmentally friendly vessels. Carriers are also focused on expanding web services, and they now routinely offer capabilities such as online track and trace, shipment booking and rate requests, bill of lading data, downloadable sailing schedules, and customized reporting. Inbound Logistics sets its sails on some of the industry’s top players with this roundup of ocean freight carriers.
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