Port operations have been severely diminished and inland distribution massively disrupted by the coronavirus, lockdowns and safe-working practices, which delay the unloading of containers and...
Container shortages in China
read more
Insights
Our alerts, news and guides embrace all transport modes and explore global developments across all aspects of the supply chain, to keep you informed and guide decision making.
Category
- 4PL
- Air
- Automotive
- BIFA
- BPO
- Brexit
- Careers
- Chemical
- China
- Climate
- Coronavirus
- Currency
- Customs
- eCommerce
- Economics
- Environment
- EU
- Exports
- Finance
- Foodstuffs
- Fracht
- France
- Freight Market Report
- General
- Hazardous
- Health
- Hong Kong
- IMO 2020
- IMO 2023
- India
- Insurance
- Intermodal
- International Trade
- Labour unrest
- Logistics
- Metro
- Middle East
- MVT
- News
- Project
- Publishing
- Rail
- Retail
- Road
- RoRo
- Sea
- Sea/Air
- Short sea
- Supply Chain
- Technology
- Training
- Turkey
- Uncategorized
- UNECE
- United States
- Warehouse
- Weather
Subscribe to insights & industry news
The perfect storm threatening container haulage
The perfect storm threatening container haulage There is not an industry sector that has not been impacted to some extent by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even those deemed ‘essential’ have had to...
Get ready for Brexit
The border processes and way the UK trades with Europe is going to change significantly as we exit the EU transition period on the 31st December 2020, which is why we have developed an...
40% of firms find better post-COVID suppliers
In a recent survey, reported by the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), 41% of firms said that they have found “new and better” suppliers to work with as a direct result of...
The joined up supply chain
The supply chain is a complex system of interrelated parts which need to be monitored continuously to avoid problems and keep it running effectively. True supply chain visibility requires the...
Shipping lines set to increase Asia–Europe contract rates
As the container shipping lines continue to control capacity tightly, announcing a new series of blanked sailings in October on the Asia - Europe trade, they are preparing for their annual contract...
UK ports matter
European ports used to be the world’s busiest and largest ports, but have been eclipsed by the impact of globalisation and the massive growth of container ports in Asia. European ports still...
Sharing the Brexit knowledge
With a readership approaching two million, including 0.25 million shippers, The Loadstar is one of the most influential supply chain media platforms in the world, which is why, when they want Brexit...
Metro’s 2020 undergraduate cohort are truly unique
Attracting talented young people to start a career in logistics is an industry wide issue, which Metro has addressed by engaging directly with regional universities and introducing the logistics and...
Brexit ready
Over the last 18 months, since Theresa May struggled fruitlessly to get her Brexit deal through parliament, we have published over 60 news, opinion and guidance articles and shared close to 200...
The Metro team talk: Ben Fidler
Metro’s outsourcing services ensure that we can take care of the supply chain so you can focus on your business, with Ben and the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) team being a crucial component in...
The UK’s post-Brexit tariff regime
Announced in May, the UK Global Tariff (UKGT) is the UK-specific tariff regime that will apply to goods imported into the UK from January 2021, with tariffs on an additional £30bn of imported goods...