22 July 2020 SA exporters will need to immediately develop plans to minimise the almost certain disruptions to existing logistical arrangements. On 30 June 2020, the United Kingdom and the European Union passed a final threshold. Although the UK formally left the EU on 31 January in terms of the Withdrawal Agreement between the EU and…
DetailsJul 21, 2020 The Mumbai-based digital freight forwarder will leverage TradeLens’ solutions to accelerate secure digitization in ocean logistics Shipwaves, an industry-leading digital freight forwarder has joined Maersk-IBM developed TradeLends platform. The association between the front-running blockchain-powered supply chain solution provider and digital freight forwarder is aimed at accelerating the digitization of the ocean logistics space, especially…
DetailsASM’s online customs platform meets post-Brexit customs requirements July 21, 2020 Agency Sector Management (ASM) is working with customers to ensure they can comply with newly announced post-Brexit customs procedures using its Sequoia software. ASM’s online customs platform is geared up to meet the requirements of the UK Government’s Border Operating Model, published last week and…
Details20 July 2020 New requirements that food imports be tested for COVID-19 is pushing major Chinese ports to their limit. Reuters reports that major shippers have warned customers of additional fees and possible diversions to other ports as the measures persist. China stepped up inspections of imported food last month after an outbreak of the coronavirus…
DetailsJULY 20, 2020 JCA logo Effective Monday, July 20, importers applying for permits from the Trade Board Limited (TBL), must do so through the Jamaica Single Window for Trade (JSWIFT) facility, in keeping with the thrust to improve trade efficiency. The TBL will cease accepting new applications, as part of the phased digitisation of State Border…
Details20 July 2020 The UK left the EU on 31st January 2020, but entered a transition period where existing arrangements continue until 1st January 2021. In January we were told we had an oven-ready deal – but it wasn’t a deal, rather it was simply a withdrawal agreement. The government are very publically negotiating a trade deal with the…
DetailsThe Department for Transport has signed off on the purchase of a vast site in Kent for a Brexit border facility and confirmed that it will be partly used as a giant lorry park just days after the cabinet minister Michael Gove insisted that was not the “intention”. The facility needs to be in place to accommodate…
DetailsDescartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, enables end-to-end logistics solutions provider, G.B. Agencies (GBA), to prepare for inevitable implications on customs procedures in the wake of Brexit, with Descartes’ e-Customs solution. As a long-standing customer of Descartes Impatex software to manage shipments around the world, GBA was already familiar…
DetailsVenture capital funding into the logistics industry has amounted to nearly $28bn since 2015, research from McKinsey shows. And although US digital freight forwarder Flexport has taken many of the headlines during this period, it is actually the last-mile and B2C logistics sectors that have received the overwhelming proportion of that finance. Ocean and air…
DetailsTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM:, Twelve persons including two top officials in Secretariat and two ministers’ personal staff are learnt to have interfered in the gold smuggling case inorder to save the master brain Swapna Suresh, according to information received by the Customs. These persons are known to have put pressure on Customs to release the diplomatic baggage comprising…
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