Maersk and IBM have announced they will discontinue their work on their TradeLens blockchain platform. The platform, under development since 2018, will go offline by the end of Q1 next year. But why did TradeLens lose the battle in the container shipping industry?
Last week, the Embassy of Brazil in the Netherlands organised a cachaça tasting event in Rotterdam. The Spirits Business Global Master Award winning Engenho Dom Tapparo cachaça was present at this successful, informal promotion of the famous Brazilian drink in Read more…
America’s most prolific marketplace is continuing its push to monopolize its sellers’ entire supply chains. Amazon this week announced a new service that will grant sellers access to its massive warehousing and distribution network. Amazon Warehousing and Distribution (AWD) makes the promise Read more…
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Container lines are using pandemic windfalls to fashion themselves into logistics giants. But their empire building risks a backlash. When French container-shipping giant CMA CGM Group announced a cargo partnership with Air France-KLM last week, the real surprise was its Read more…
Shipping congestion at Chinese ports, combined with Russia’s war in Ukraine, risks a one-two punch that threatens to derail the recovery, already buffeted by inflation pressures and headwinds to growth. Is globalisation going back to square one?
Global supply chains have seen unprecedented disruption, and container freight rates are at record highs. Shippers continue to face acute shortages of vessel space, container boxes, warehouse space, intermodal capacity, and labour.
The pandemic has been hugely challenging and disruptive to the business world, but it seems that at least one function has been left smiling: procurement, according to a new UK survey.
2021 was notable for labor challenges and shifts in thinking about employee engagement. Here are some valuable lessons learned on how to attract supply chain talent and increase job satisfaction in 2022.
During three intense days in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, Engenho Dom Tapparo was successfully launched in Europe.
