By majority vote, the Members of the European Parliament have agreed to include shipping in the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) Directive as of 2023, unless there is a comparable system agreed under the auspices of the IMO by the end of 2021.
Nearly two-thirds of companies with well-established advanced analytics strategies report operating margins and revenues of 15 percent or more, according to a report developed by Forbes Insights, in collaboration with Ernst & Young.
Steelmakers aren't out of the woods yet. A year-long rebound risks fading as a slowdown in China's property market deepens, exposing bullish sentiment as overblown, according to a U.S.-based hedge fund manager and former Citigroup Inc. analyst.
Finance chiefs are responsible for minimizing the risks that their organizations face in all facets of business - from supply chain operations and fixed-asset investment to payment processing and cybersecurity.
As global energy demand rises, the market for LNG continues to expand. Set to increase by 50 percent between 2015 and 2020, the LNG market is one of the fastest growing in the world.
Resilinc has released its EventWatch Annual Report to assess the most impactful supply chain events of 2016, according to the software company for supply chain resiliency. The report tracks information from the company's supplier network and reviews incidents by risk type, industry, geography, severity, and seasonality.
Traceability is vital to supply chain management. Need proof? Just ask Target, which suffered a supply chain disaster this summer over falsely labeled Egyptian cotton sheets, prompting other major retailers including Walmart, JC Penney and Bed Bath & Beyond to investigate the labeling and sourcing of their Welspun-made sheets and other textiles.
Forged warehouse certificates circulating in the name of Access World, a metals warehouse company owned by commodity giant Glencore Plc, have all been for nickel in Asia, it said last week.