Development of forwarders in Africa and container depots

The question reads as follow: "What do you deduce to be the most notable driver of freight forwarding services in Africa?

The statistics shows the consequences of service industry survey with regards to the main drivers of growth in the exposure of Africa's logistics piazzas from 2016 to 2018, by type. In the view point of around 31.9 percent of the respondents the reason behind the emergence is the growing consumer base.

Technology has put on value and will carry on  to put on value to the shipping and freight industry. Commencing from how containerization fashioned the modern world 60 years back, to the darwinism of heterogeneous container size/types, to the materialization of the mega ships currently, technology has accredited the industry to a large extent..

Recently Maersk Tankers utilized a drone to drop-ship a parcel at mid sea as a pilot study. They plan to traverse the possibilities of utilizing such technology to safely and quickly drop-ship parcels

Inland Container Depots, also known as ICDs, are dry ports  rig out for managing and interim storage of containerized cargo. 

Bolloré Ports in Africa manages around 25 Inland container depots (ICD) on the African continent. In order to bound customer wait time and to sought the traffic in all of the ICD operated more effortlessly, Bolloré Ports is ploughing in in the building and development of closed and secured warehouses.

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