By signing the convention, the Beijing government aims to facilitate Chinese exports and support its ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative. Both these aims are positive for transport companies serving this vast region, but for the impact to be fully realised, further progress is needed. There is littl...

Research and advisory firm Gartner said: “To gain competitive advantage from information, organisations need to identify ‘data stewards’ in the business and manage information as a corporate asset.” However, while the study seems current in today’s information age, it is actually near...

In the case of Amazon, there was the potential for disaster, as four separate shipments of lithium batteries and flammable aerosols were not declared. Lithium batteries are ubiquitous: they power our mobile phones, iPads, laptops, bicycles, golf trollies and a host of other everyday products. There ...

Last month, the Libyan Navy fired on a vessel operated by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Bourbon Argos, marking the first time Libyan authorities have fired directly on a rescue vessel since the conflict there began in 2011. Naval personnel eventually boarded the vessel, which...

But despite the good it does us, once back at our desks, the tension returns quicker than our tans fade. A common tension point at cargo airlines is the relationship between the sales and revenue management departments. To many in our industry this friction is unavoidable, in fact some executiv...

However, this explosive growth in the number of breweries does not reflect any real increase in the volume of beer being consumed. Instead, it depicts a shift in drinking habits towards speciality beers and growing demand for a more diverse offering of craft products. The UK leads the way, being hom...

As SeaIntel noted in its Hanjin research, which it shared this week: “If we are being objective about this, the shippers are not without their part in creating this situation.” It added: “The relentless pressure on rates in recent years has created a situation where the entire carrier industry...

Fastlane International said that, even though the UK government appears to be in no hurry to trigger Article 50, British businesses can’t continue as if the vote had never happened. Britain has committed to leaving the EU and, if the UK fails to achieve continued access to the single m...

While the sector has historically a negative reputation, the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships (HKC) is making a significant impact on improving health, safety and sustainability standards at recycling yards around the world. The HKC is conc...

Go, a Chinese boardgame, played for almost 2,500 years and rivalling Chess in terms of its complexity, was one of the last frontiers in which the human mind was held to be superior over artificial intelligence. However, this was not any old piece of software – AlphaGo was developed by Go...