A maritime Amazon arising?

摘要

Online shopping has been viewed as both a sinner and a saint in the years that it has been establishing itself. Whilst online shopping has created greater ease for consumers to purchase goods, the reverse of this has seen a detrimental effect for the high street shop. But, online shopping is appearing to be the way forward for many and looks to be the way consumers will be shopping in the future. Shipping has been lacking on keeping up with this phenomenon, although shipping firms such as Maersk have been looking at market places such as Amazon for future business arrangements, the rest of the market still is hesitant to look in the opportunities this type of purchasing platform could bring. Freddy Ingemann, Founder & CEO, Moscord explains about the new way of purchasing: »We will see what we have seen in all other businesses. You will see changes here of course because of digi-talisation and the client seems interested. So, you could call it disruption, but it will happen, it will be leaner, greener. More planned procurement, more contract and catalogue contract-based buying as we see in other industries.«