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Brexit Is a New World Businesses Still Need to Figure Out

British businesses probably didn’t expect to start 2021 worrying about wooden pallets after a year of grappling with the coronavirus and a meltdown in the economy.

Photo: Bloomberg

COVID-19 Delivers a Wakeup Call for Supply-Chain Risk Management

The coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on global risk-management strategies. Many companies learned in 2020 that their supply chains weren’t prepared for a disruption of such massive scale. Now, they’re determined not to get caught short again.

COVID-19 Delivers a Wakeup Call for Supply-Chain Risk Management

Brexit Deal Hands Business a Mix of Relief, Unwanted Change

The U.K. and European Union may have signed a trade deal, but British businesses still face a raft of difficult changes.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo: Bloomberg.

Bottlenecks Wear Down World Economy’s Fleet of Container Ships

Container shipping, the backbone of the global trading system, is showing signs of fatigue as the pandemic descends into its darkest days.

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U.K. Faces Food Crisis Threat as Virus Surge Blocks Trade

The U.K. is confronting threats of food insecurity and panicked shopping days before Christmas as European nations restricted trade and travel to guard against a resurgent coronavirus.

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What Happens When Tycoons Abandon Their Giant Cargo Ships

COVID-19 has wrought havoc everywhere, but in the nominally regulated shipping industry it’s fueling a worrying practice: the abandonment of ships, cargo and seafarers with no way to get home.

An Aug. 4 explosion tore through the Port of Beirut. Photo: Bloomberg.

U.K. Businesses Plead for Time to Avoid Brexit Cliff Edge

As trade talks have come down to the wire, companies have to try to adapt for life beyond Dec. 31 without knowing the fundamental rules of engagement.

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How a New Zealand Meat Exporter Is Navigating the Pandemic

It’s tough enough maintaining a reliable domestic food supply chain during the coronavirus pandemic. Imagine, then, the challenge of managing one that stretches nearly 8,000 miles.

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Brexit Stockpiling Frenzy Fuels Chaos in Cross-Channel Trade

The split from the European Union is fueling an increasingly frenzied demand for goods, creating traffic snarl-ups at ports and highways on both sides of the English Channel and leading to at least one major factory shutdown.

Photo: Bloomberg

Fidelity Calls for Urgent Action to Help 400,000 Stranded Seafarers

Fidelity International is calling for urgent action to address the humanitarian crisis and supply-chain risks caused by the more than 400,000 seafarers who are stranded aboard vessels and a similar number who remain ashore with little prospect for work or pay.

Source: Bloomberg

Multi-Shipper Management Tools Help Retail Fulfillment Solution Providers Meet Their Clients' Complex Parcel Shipping Needs

In the face of rising B2C costs, volumes and capacity constraints, shippers have to re-engineer their fulfillment processes to accommodate last-mile parcel delivery.

Pierbridge Multi Shopper Management Tool

A Retailer's Guide to Turning Shipping Into a Competitive Advantage

Here's how a multi-carrier parcel shipping management solution can help keep costs in line.

Pierbridge Retailers Guide To Turning Shipping

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