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How Good is Your Logistics Service Provider?

Logistics Viewpoints

An interest group of the Singapore-based Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society (LSCMS), the Shippers Council is a professional association that counts members from organizations with a vested interest in logistics, including end users, technology and service providers, government and academia.

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Xeneta Roundtable: Ocean Freight Strategies for an Uncertain Market

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

We welcome Shippers to join Emily Stausbll, Xeneta Senior Shipping Analyst, for a roundtable discussion to unpack: Global market insights and trends for Ocean Freight Impact of the new alliances on capacity, schedule reliability and freight Geopolitics and other on-going global events and their impact on supply chain including how new U.S.

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Hiring a Singapore Agent to Navigate Local Customs Clearance Can Boost Productivity, Efficiency

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As a key Southeast Asian hub, Singapore is a small but important market for many overseas sellers. Foreign trading companies may find it daunting or time-consuming to juggle multiple custom duties, especially if Singapore is an unfamiliar market to them. 2) Managing multiple payments and papers to clear Customs.

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Doing Business in Singapore

QAD

The Malaysian island of Singapore was originally known as Temasek (“Sea Town”) after the first settlers found it in AD 1298-1299. In 1819, the British East India Company established a trading settlement on the island, which set modern Singapore into motion. Singapore’s landmass is only 719 sq. Manufacturing in Singapore.

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Is your freight invoice accurate? A new study claims it might not be.

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Shipping freight across the world is a complex matter. But what is even more complicated is freight billing and handling freight payments: what a cargo owner is initially quoted is often different from what he later is asked to pay. A 2021 Cargo Owners and freight forwarders survey, confirms this. Lack of trust.

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Freight Visibility and Control: Introducing the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX)

Freightos

Freight Visibility and Control: Introducing the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX). The underlying premise dates back further, even for freight. By 1985, the Baltic Exchange published its first daily dry bulk freight index. A New Freight Index. By Zvi Schreiber, CEO, Freightos. The Age of the Index.

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Packing for the Future

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In this particular video, the company offers a seemingly simple but sturdy method to ship a suit jacket wrinkle-free! The Singapore National Environment Agency calculated that in 2020, 1.14 million tons of paper and cardboard waste was generated (Singapore population of 5.45 Is your freight invoice accurate?

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