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Direct freight carriers represent $200 billion; forwarder resales add $300 billion

Zvi Schreiber · Freightos: Can they win the Shipping wars? · Jul 15, 2020 · at 15:37

Zvi Schreiber, founder and CEO of Freightos, breaks down the gross market sizing for ocean and air shipping across direct carriers and freight forwarders.

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“Direct carriers air and ocean together would be about two hundred billion. And then the freight forwarders who resell that at about three hundred billion.”

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The claim, plainly

Global direct freight carriers represent roughly $200 billion across ocean and air, while freight forwarder resales add another $300 billion.

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Assessment

The claim provides round ballpark estimates for the size of global direct freight carriers (air and ocean combined) and the freight forwarder reselling market around 2019–2020. Industry baseline data confirms both legs: 1) According to IATA and maritime research from Drewry/Sea-Intelligence, 2019 airline cargo revenues were approximately $101.4 billion and ocean container carrier revenues were roughly $100 billion, totaling approximately $201 billion (precisely aligning with the ~$200 billion carrier estimate). 2) For freight forwarder reselling/gross turnover, Armstrong & Associates reported the 2019 global International Transportation Management (ITM) market size at $274.0 billion, which closely aligns with the speaker's round approximation of 'about three hundred billion'.

IATA reported global air cargo carrier revenues of $101.4 billion in 2019 and $140.4 billion in 2020.
Drewry, Sea-Intelligence, and UNCTAD estimated 2019 global ocean container carrier revenues at approximately $90 billion to $110 billion, bringing combined direct ocean and air carrier revenues to ~$200 billion to $240 billion.
Armstrong & Associates reported the 2019 global International Transportation Management (freight forwarding gross revenue/reselling) market at $274.0 billion.

Checked against

[1] iata.org [2] freightwaves.com [3] unctad.org [4] logupdateafrica.com [5] freightwaves.com [6] 3plogistics.com [7] itln.in [8] scribd.com

"global freight forwarding market" 2019 2020 "billion" "Armstrong" OR "Ti" OR "Transport Intelligence" "container shipping" revenue 2019 "billion" Drewry OR "McKinsey" OR "Sea-Intelligence" IATA air cargo revenue 2019 2020 "billion" "International Transportation Management" "Armstrong & Associates" "2019" OR "2020" "billion" "global freight forwarding market" 2019 2020 "€" OR "$" "Transport Intelligence" global freight forwarding market size 2019 2020 Drewry Armstrong TI

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