Beyond the Box

Visibility is such a buzz word. Unless you’ve been living under rock, you will have heard it bandied around the logistics and supply chain industry. You may even have used the concept in a conversation yourself. Most of us will understand why a captain navigating a ship would need visibility, but what we are hearing about now is ‘end-to-end visibility’ - visibility of all stages of the supply chai...

80% of world trade is carried out through containerised logistics, generating trillions of data points every single day. But until recently, only a few actors capitalised or even knew how to create value of all this data. Digitalisation in shipping and logistics represents a fundamental redraw of global supply chains that will profoundly change global trade for both businesses and consumers. Techn...

The COVID-19 pandemic stretched supply chains beyond their limits with a perfect storm of lockdowns, stranded containers, backlogged ports, empty shelves, and record levels of consumer demand. In the aftermath of these unprecedented disruptions, supply chain diversification has accelerated and resilience is more important than ever. In this episode, we deep dive into what this has meant for links...