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Visibility for European combined transport

Posted by George Raymond on November 7, 2024

Supply-chain visibility providers and the European combined-transport sector need to combine their strengths.

In a world ever more beset with uncertainties, rapid change and bad surprises, companies increasingly require real-time information on the location, status and expected arrival of every shipment in their supply chain. Supply-chain visibility providers (SCVPs) have emerged to meet this need.

In Europe, an important tenet of EU and countries’ transport policy is promotion of combined transport (CT) to reach decarbonisation and other objectives. However, a major brake on increasing the modal share of European road-rail CT has been the difficulty of providing industrial customers with real-time information on the location, status and expected arrival time of their shipments.

Conscious of these difficulties, in recent years the European CT sector has made great strides in facilitating data exchange among all involved parties. What remains to be done? Here’s my report.

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