Dr Christos Tsinopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Operations & Project Management at Durham University Business School, comments on the repercussions for the UK manufacturing industry following Brexit “Brexit repercussions for the UK…
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Dry bulk cargo specialist brought-in by ISS
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime services provider, has announced a key hire in its Cargo Solutions division. Vincent Mazzone, a dry bulk supply chain and risk management…
Transport unions call for new thinking from international labour movement 14 November 2013 – A first-of-its-kind supply chain and logistics symposium closed this week at the ITF’s London headquarters with a…
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Launch of Centre for Operations and Supply Chain Research
Leeds University Business School is launching a research centre to focus on developing the latest practices in supply chain management and to provide practical advice to support businesses throughout the…
London & Hong Kong, 7 November 2013 – Freight transport insurance specialist TT Club is continuing its efforts to reduce risk in the supply chain. Through constant analysis of the claims…
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TT Talk – Trade ‘Esperanto’ still requires understanding
Supply chain management and contracts of carriage are, inevitably, derivations of sale contracts. The interface between the different types of contracts and the parties involved can be critical to keep…
International trade in perishable cargo is a growth area for container carriers, now accounting for over 90% of world maritime reefer transport capacity and making inroads to airfreight as well.…
BIMCO and the WCO have today renewed their close relationship through the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to enhance and strengthen their co-operation to adopt…
Chicago USA: DP World’s London Gateway, the UK’s new deep-sea port and Europe’s largest logistics park opening in Q4 this year, will prove that ports add value to the supply chain,…
(Source: Lloyd’s of London) Wed 08 May 2013 – Dual sourcing is becoming more common as companies heed the lessons of 2011. Two major disasters in 2011 revealed just how…