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Global Trade & Logistics

Does COVID-19 require us to Re-Orient our Businesses & Leadership Style?

Trust all of you are taking care of yourselves and dear ones and observing lock-down and social distancing during the ongoing crisis...

Six Strategies for Navigating the Challenges of Supply Chain and Logistics Infrastructure in the 21st Century

The 21st Century has brought unprecedented supply chain and logistics infrastructure challenges. Organizations, including businesses and NGOs, can overcome these challenges with a holistic approach

Five Leadership questions for another perspective on the Ukraine-Russia military conflict

The human suffering consequent from this avoidable military conflict is horrible, and the propaganda is questionable...

How Emerging Technologies are Transforming Cargo Claims…

Did you know that the Top 10 Container Shipping Lines control 81% of global capacity? According to industry statistics, while the frequency of claims below USD 50,000 are increasing, 8 out of 10 claims are ...

If You do not know anything about cargo claims, Do This ONE thing

If You do not know anything about cargo claims, Do This ONE thing. Exporters and Importers often ask what they should do in order not to jeopardize the entire claim compensation process. If we had to give only one...

Apex Group Partners With Recoupex To Support Our Network Of Forwarders, Cargo Owners And Insurers , Finalise Cargo Claims Globally

Apex Group Partners With Recoupex To Support Our Network Of Forwarders, Cargo Owners And Insurers , Finalise Cargo Claims Globally...

Maritime & Logistics Infrastructure

Five ways that our supply chain conversations are shifting

Our supply chains have evolved over time, and with all the disruptions that we hear about, nobody seems to be driving them explicitly...
Fulfilment Warehouse

What drives the success of investments in Fulfillment Warehousing?

Companies like Amazon, DHL, and Walmart continue to invest in Automation, Technology and expand their warehouses to keep up with the growing demand for e-commerce fulfilment services and increase the fulfilment process’s efficiency and speed

India’s is looking to be a hub of the east coast leveraging port led manufacturing

The Indian state of Odisha aims to develop the state into a manufacturing hub by taking advantage of port-led manufacturing aided by progressive policies and state-of-the-art infrastructure...

Australia’s Port of Newcastle to seek new partner for development

With the expiry of DP World’s MoU with the Australian Port of Newcastle, the port seeks new partners to help with the development of a container terminal. Local media reports have suggested that DP world could be looking to...

Free Zone & Logistics World

3 Perspectives on Economic Zones & Industrial Parks And 4 on how to make them Successful

The impact of the pandemic is expected to be deeper and longer on trade flows and freight movement. Now that most businesses...

Indian shipping ministry looking at SEZ-like tax benefits to promote Coastal Economic Zones (CEZs)

India’s shipping ministry is looking to provide tax concessions – on the lines of the ones available for special economic zones – to draw investors...

ILoilo province in Philippines is pursuing the development of 5 of its towns into SEZs

The Philippines’ Iloilo province aims to develop its five towns viz. Miag-ao, Dumangas, Leganes, Concepion and Passi City as economic zones...

Kenya is looking to unlock the potential of SEZs

The Government of Kenya looks to unlock the economic benefits offered by Special Economic Zones by offering a slew of tax and non-tax benefits to encourage foreign investors...

Automation & Training

4 Contexts to benefit from productivity improvements?

We know that technology driven productivity increase, mostly enhances prosperity. While many people across the world, continue to benefit from technology, numerous others also end up losing their jobs. The enterprising ones transition to other gigs with retraining, though it is a bigger transition for a truck driver to become a yoga teacher...

Ten perspectives on Technology to start good conversations

Have you ever wondered about some of the problems that technology alone can not solve? Four significant problems for today’s world are the pandemic, overpopulation, refugee problem and climate change. There’s a human dimension to these problems that technology by itself cannot solve...

Uber discontinuing self-driving truck division, leaving Tesla, Google in the race

The taxi-cab e-network pioneer Uber is shelving its plans for autonomous cargo transportation for the foreseeable future. The company has decided to close its self-driving truck division and focus instead on its cars for the passenger segment....

China looking to boost high speed transportation development with New Hyperloop deal

With an aim to boost its high-speed transportation development, China has signed a deal with California-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) to build a hyperloop track China’s Guizhou province...

Container ports are benefiting from IoT and autonomous vehicles

Increased investments from start-ups and major technology businesses on the Internet of Things and autonomous cars are benefitting he container port sector, says a sector expert...

Maersk and IBM go live with TradeLens-a global blockchain trade platform

After a 12-month trial phase with over 154 million shipping events captured on the blockchain, the early adopter programme is now live. The partnership model has been revised...