One of the outcomes of a hard Brexit will be that many goods imported from or exported to the EU will be subject to tariffs for the first time since the establishment of the single market and customs union. Affected businesses will need to calculate the cost of these tariffs and other non-tariff bar...

I have to disappoint you. It has not yet been scientifically proven that there is a causality between gender diversity and performance. But still, we all know that diverse teams are better than homogeneous teams when it comes to performance in complex environments. Causality and correlation are two ...

The first part, which discussed developing semantic interoperability across supply chains and transport modes, was published yesterday. In addition to semantic interoperability, and considering the huge potential of the IoT data to improve door-to-door logistic chains, there is a need to address the...

The second part will be published tomorrow. End-to-end supply chains typically involve several modes of transport and a wide range of stakeholders. The original seller, as well as the final buyer of the product have little visibility of the location and condition of the product during the transporta...

Some sectors have seen extraordinary rises in demand, whereas others have seen worrying drop-offs, resulting in many in the logistics sector working under extraordinary pressure. As with many industries, coronavirus has not only presented its own set of challenges, but has brought existing vulnerabi...

And so to the UK government’s solution to its Brexit doom scenario of 7,000-strong lorry queues to Dover next year: the Kent Access Permit, or KAP. Let’s just put an R in that abbreviation, and another bit of satire’s done. Only that would be a disservice to a freight industry scratching its h...

To calculate the full cost for an importer, the airline developed a programme called ‘The Test of Time’ which “… can analyse your procurement details in great detail… and help you to find the real costs of merchandising your goods by air.” Nothing new there, you might say, as there are c...

But Menzies Aviation and Felixtowe port operator Hutchison have reacted in entirely different ways. Logistic-News broke the story on Tuesday that Menzies was struggling at its Heathrow station, having taken on the handling for Qatar Airways while being hit simultaneously with surging volumes. We aske...

We’re talking serious numbers here – if Hutchison Ports expects Mr Grayling to work all 52 weeks of the year, that amounts to £274.73 per hour; but if, like the rest of us, he gets the standard four weeks’ paid annual leave, it works out at £297.62 per hour. As an aside, the difference betwe...

After a generally weak start to the year for feeder vessels and a continuation of 2019’s strong markets for mid-size and larger units, the onset of lockdowns drove a correction in vessel earnings. Since then, however, time-charter markets have roared back into life, and vessel earnings for key ben...