“If those three groups aren’t working hand in hand, we aren’t going to make it.”
At the E-commerce Panel Discussion during the Opening Plenary, Liam O’Sullivan director of operations with International Post Corporation (IPC), said handlers, cargo airlines and postal operations “will have to work very closely together” to handle the expected increase in cross-border e-commerce. “We expect by 2020 we will see a triplification of cross-border flow,” O’Sullivan said, adding that the current geographic composition of these movements is likely to experience a shake-up.
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