**6.5 Information and technology**

No doubt that technology is so important nowadays, finding a partner with advanced technology would help to have efficient and effective operations. The ability to access and interface with the international shippers' information technology is a very important factor in evaluating the freight forwarder. Finding a partner with advanced technology will give the company a competitive edge against your competitors by utilizing their big data.

#### *Logistics Engineering*

Some shippers have really advanced technology to level that they have platforms, which allow you to predict the economy for every quarter of the year per region by utilizing the big data of logistics (import & export), this will be very helpful, especially for newly launched products.
