Shipping and Logistics Blog in Nigeria
Beyond importing cargoes faster, safer and at a lower cost, a thorough understanding of import requirements in a country like Nigeria is a lot more affordable than the cost of damage control, when and...
“Hinged on estimated market size of $ 3 trillion, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement is about the largest free trade agreement in history.” (World Economic Forum) After more than a year of...
While a strong network of global Consolidators and Deconsolidators is considered as one of the greatest keys to success in the logistics of LCL Consolidation, finding the right destination partners at strategic global hubs...
“Henceforth, every Area Controller must respond accordingly to Strike Force Intervention Alerts. The Strike Force team has been authorized henceforth to intervene right in the port and possibly make seizures where necessary without hindrance....
E-Commerce is simply the buying and selling conducted via a technologically enabled online platform. Any kind of commercial transaction done through the internet easily passes as e-Commerce. Nonetheless, today’s discussion is about the...
“More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of ethics and compliance.” (Simon Mainwaring) Though acts of non-compliance are said to be either deliberate or...
There have been well over 300 known cases of sealed Merger & Acquisition deals in shipping and Logistics alone across the globe in the last two years (Statista, 2019). In view of the...
A logistics contract is a valid document, signed between shippers (importers/exporters) and carriers (ship, truck and aircraft owners) or Shippers and Forwarders (Licensed/Customs Agents) for the carriage or transportation of goods to or...
Manual procedures, operational inefficiency, costly delays, false declarations, inaccurate assessments, multiple cargo examinations, loss of integrity are some of the many challenges militating against seamless movement of cargo in and out of...
“Customer-centric companies are 60% more profitable than companies that are not” (Deloitte Touché). The statement above shows that it is even more profitable to be customer-centric than to be profit oriented. The question...
