under 10% of shipping companies use eircode

Less than a tenth of logistics and shipping companies have adjusted their business to use Eircode, according to a KPMG survey.
KPMG and service consultant CBRE and the Irish Freight Association released the second annual Irish logistics and supply chain confidence index and found that 92% of companies responding to the survey said they did not use Eircode \", adjusted their business processes.
The same survey last year found that 96% of companies did not adapt to Eircode for their business.
\"Many respondents said Eircode is now getting a bigger adoption, but to a large extent it has not had a huge impact on their business so far,\" the survey report said . \".
A total of 52 companies responded to the survey, including companies such as Aer Lingus Cargo, DHL and Musgrave group.
Among the respondents, logistics companies accounted for 27, while shipping companies accounted for the rest of the respondents.
Nearly 9 out of 10 (89%)
In logistics companies, they said that with the launch of Eircode, they did not take any action on the business process, and 96% of shipping respondents stressed that there has been no change since the launch.
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Said their attitude towards Eircode has not changed compared to this time last year, although nearly 20% of respondents said they were \"more active with the Eircode system than they were 12 months ago \".
According to the survey, 8% of respondents said they had a greater negative impact on Eircode than they did 12 months ago.
At the same time, 18% of respondents said that \"the uncertainty of Brexit\" is the biggest challenge for the industry next year, although four out of ten companies said that in the next 12 months, conditions will be \"more difficult \". googletag. {});