How has the growth for the necessity of sustainable shipping impacted the ocean maritime sector and what are companies doing? Ocean freight is essential to international trade. The OECD says that around 90% of traded goods are carried over the waves. Although shipping goods is an extremely effective method of transportation, it does come with …
What is the importance of insuring imports and exports in the supply chain and how can we mitigate risk? Within the supply chain there are many risks regarding the damage or loss of cargo, non-payment of services, supplier issues and many more. This means that the insurance of imports and exports in the supply chain …
ITM Editor, Rebecca Spayne, exclusively talks to Liam Knight, General Manager at the Association of Industrial Truck Trainers (AITT), about what’s changing in the world of forklift and warehouse trucks and why. Let’s start with you. You’re new in post, aren’t you? How’s it going? Very well thank you, we are really, really busy! It’s …
How can data help reduce the impact of carbon emissions from the supply chain? Environmental regulations have been making more headlines in recent years as countries around the world begin to look to curb and ultimately eliminate their carbon emissions. Unfortunately, one of the biggest contributors to the global carbon emissions in the supply chain. …
Michael Kramer, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Business Development at Stolt-Nielsen discusses sustainability in logistics, exclusively to ITM We are all responsible for seeking a more sustainable future, but we also need to acknowledge that the logistics industry is facing some considerable challenges around reducing carbon emissions. Stolt-Nielsen operates three global bulk-liquid logistics businesses, but …
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Rob Fisher, IMHX Connect Event Director, IMHX What does ‘logistics’ mean to you? As the pandemic proved, logistics – and the dedicated people that work in the industry – underpins the UK’s national economic and societal infrastructure. We are that hidden industry which ensures that supermarket shelves are stocked, that medicines are available on-demand and …
ITM speaks to industry experts and takes a look at the biggest trends and challenges facing the ocean freight sector for 2022. The end of the holiday season and beginning of a new year is typically a slower period for the global ocean freight market. Retailers usually spend the summer months building up inventories for …
ITM explores some of the key challenges and successes of 2021 for the trade finance and export industry and examines whether they will continue in 2022 Export finance is a process of funding the exporters to facilitate their business in the global market. In simple words, it is a cash flow solution for exporters to …
What is the difference between rental or purchase pharmaceutical packaging in the cold chain industry and what works better in the current climate? Paul Terry Sales and Marketing Director EMEA at Peli BioThermal explores exclusively the packaging side of pharmaceutical cold chain. Air cargo is used for the transportation of goods for many different industry …
Taking a look at sustainability in the logistics industry, the issues with carbon emissions, their main causes and what businesses are doing to address this Climate change has been one of the more spoken about topics over the past couple of years. It impacts our everyday lives and habits, and many people are trying to …
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