Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics
Where forwarders lose margin – and how to stop it
What the source reported
Source-reported<p> </p> <p>A profitable quote does not always become a profitable shipment. In this episode of The Loadstar Podcast, host Charlotte Goldstone asks where freight forwarders lose money between booking and delivery, and what they can do to protect their margins.<br /> Emma Crumpton, enterprise solutions director at Portcast, explains how detention and demurrage charges, mismatched buy and sell rates, and costs that are never billed back to customers can erode the return on ...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://theloadstar.com/where-forwarders-lose-margin-and-how-to-stop-it/">Where forwarders lose margin – and how to stop it</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theloadstar.com">The Loadstar</a>.</p>
- Publication
- The Loadstar · Trade Publication
- Published
- 30th September 2026
- Original report
- theloadstar.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Supply Chain & Logistics
- Geography
- UK
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 30th September 2026 · 12:31
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
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Initial Significance Low (11.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (25.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth