Year: 2017 and earlier

114 posts

Shippers demand transparency in air freight

European shippers demand their air cargo providers to be transparent on their consignments. ESC Policy Manager in Air Transport Rogier Spoel told CARGOFORWARDER GLOBAL that […]

Chinese customs and international trade

With the development of the Chinese initiative One belt One Road that involves a lot of countries and entities, efficient cooperation is required between all […]

Sustainability as a KPI in Air Freight

Sustainability is gaining importance in different transport modes. For the air freight, is it essential to have a sustainability KPI as well. The best way […]

Hong Kong Block Exemption Regulation

ESC expresses its disappointment with the Block Exemption Regulation (BER) for vessel sharing agreements (VSA) published recently by the Hong Kong competition authority.  The regulation […]

ESC and Drewry

This year has seen a lot of changes in the maritime sector that have had a negative impact on shippers. ESC has been working with […]

Hong Kong and ASEAN to collaborate on trade

ESC welcomes the closer collaboration between Hong Kong and ASEAN countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam. A free trade agreement (FTA) between Hong Kong […]

How Brexit may affect supply chains

Supply chains during the first months after Brexit day are predicted to become unreliable. If the UK government does not manage to have a deal […]

Trade Disruption in Qatar Region

What should shippers do? June 6th, 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Yemen and Libya announced that they were severing ties with Qatar due to […]