Running a thin, tight and efficient warehouse touches both top and bottom lines ot the Income Statement. “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” – ― Thomas Sowell For a company trading in physical goods, the warehouse operation is a core premise for the physical delivery and a happy customer; a paying one that […]
The data economy, Industry 4.0, ML/IA, XaaS, mining. Which part of the data story is touching the Shipping industry? The new in how businesses operate is the tooling. Tools are set in data now. In a couple serialized posts, we’ll hand out the business case for the Big Data for Logistics. (1) User’s viewport: The […]
This reading strips bare the price a merchant pays to ship a marine container. Starting with the shipping service in terms of product features. Plus technical details for the special cases. In a follow up article we’d lay out some of the anecdotal evidence in print and web, to put this into ‘high seas’ perspective. […]
Rescue Supply Chain Management from the Chains of Legacy. The Motivation Digital transformation is a cathartic effort for any participant in the conventional freight industry. Aim is to steer running your company in the new ways of working (Industry 4.0), that is for faster, cheaper, scalable, digital, transparent, compatible, user-friendly and eco-fiendly business by investing […]
Festive disruption, costly distinction and the merits of planning Up next in February – Lunar, Spring Festival or Chinese New Year What is happening when and where: an all-of- China holiday period to starts Feb-12 2012 for a 1 to 2 weeks until Feb-25th. 2021 is for the year of the Ox. The production shuts […]
How does the new Incoterms 2020 translate into my costs. Is it adding or just shifting between the trading parties? (to disillusion – no unification compliance or self-regulatory effort has resulted in direct cost avoidance or reduction to date). Where and what for do I still get charged? How to hedge my bets on imports, […]
Container Freight Shipment from China to EU How has Shipping industry faired during the 2020 (the C-19 word)? And why, unlike its usual ‘asset-class’ group siblings like travel, leisure and amenities players, most down by half in volume and still bleeding, the Container shipping companies ended the Calendar year turning-in healthy prelim (YTD) earnings reports […]
