Kuehne + Nagel AG chief executive Dr Detlef Trefzger had a strong message to send to the shipping industry: collaborate and improve your data sharing with your partners across the supply chain so that cargo can move more efficiently and reliably.

Trefzger was guest speaker at yesterday’s Singapore Maritime Lecture and the boss of the logistics and freight forwarding giant shared the lessons the logistics industry has learned from moving forward with data and technology in the hope of helping the shipping industry shift deeper into the digital information age.