Liquor logistics lowdown

In early March, word trickled out that executives at the world’s biggest liquor supplier, U.K.-based Diageo, had taken a long look at the company’s supply chain and were hoping to ...

Replacing a legacy

ICAT Logistics earlier this year overhauled its information technology platform — a much needed development considering the company was working on a 12-year-old legacy system....

ECO ships worth it?

Ocean carriers are reaping big savings through slow steaming and using larger vessels, but a Germanischer Lloyd official said significant additional benefits can be realized throug...
FMC proposes OTI reforms
Under the proposed rule, licensed OTIs, which include non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOs) and freight forwarders, would have to renew their licenses every two years with the agency. Currently, OTIs have no such requirement.
Contractor picked for Miami dredge project
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday awarded a $122 million contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. for deepening the entrance to the Port of Miami to 50 feet. Excavation is expected to commence in August.
Group calls for supply chain accountability
Investors and stakeholders from more than 115 organizations have banded together under the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility to ask global shippers to ensure the safety and welfare of their workers.
Ex-Im Bank’s $500 million loan helps Mongolian mine
Once developed, the mine, which is located about 550 kilometers south of the capital city Ulaanbaatar, will be one of the largest copper mines in the world. It will also count as one of the most important projects in Mongolia.
Research
Global Trade Management Landscape: Strategies Beyond Compliance
GTM is about more than just compliance – it’s about integrating the financial, regulatory, and transportation components of a supply chain through enhanced processes and the best people.

The report explores five challenges universal to global trade management practitioners today:
  • Visibility beyond basic track and trace.
  • Leveraging financial tools to create bottom-line benefits from GTM.
  • Recruiting, educating and retaining expert GTM practitioners.
  • Balancing the process management and technology sides of GTM.
  • Ensuring global compliance requirements are met.
Opinion
The long U.S. recovery via exports
By Walter Kemmsies, chief economist, Moffatt & Nichol

   Optimism is not abundant in this fifth year of recovery from the Great Recession. Employment, consumer spending, home sales and starts are past their worst points but have not yet recovered to their 2007 levels. Similarly, container volumes handled at ports, railcar volumes and truck tonnage are below their historic peak levels. Nonetheless, some types of activity like production and transportation of export commodities are at all-time highs...
Hamburg-Sud Export vs. Import in Europe-Med Trade
   Utilizing BlueWater Reporting's Trade Route Split Report, the above chart displays the allocated weekly capacity in the Europe-Mediterranean trade deployed by Hamburg-Sud for the current 2013 year.
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