Metro’s role in government border strategy
On the 17th December 2020 HM Government (HMG) released its 2025 Border Strategy document, which outlines its intentions for modernising the UK frontier and embraces many technologies and ideas pioneered by Metro.
The 2025 UK Border Strategy sets out the government’s vision for the UK border ...
Read more Selling sustainability to the board
The case for sustainability depends on debunking false mindsets around cost, outlining the value it brings to the business and clarifying the benefits to supplier relationships. Metro helps shippers reduce the environmental impacts of their logistics activities.
One of the big myths to overcom...
Read more The mind-boggling logistics of Singles’ Day
Singles' Day is an unofficial Chinese holiday celebrating people who are not in relationships, with the unmarried commemorating the occasion by treating themselves to gifts, making Singles' Day the largest online shopping day in the world, by quite some margin.
With 1.9bn products ordered in 2...
Read more Metro’s supply chain excellence recognised
Publisher and Events organiser, Akabo Media, is one of the most influential voices in supply chain, freight and logistics. Its annual Supply Chain Excellence awards uniquely feature clients and service providers, to emphasise the value and innovation delivered across the sector.
Despite the ch...
Read more 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 ability to see the whole supply chain at all times in order to solve problems as they arise, as incomp...
Read more Award-winning MVT moves up to the next level
MVT, Metro’s cloud-based, hyper secure, operations and supply chain management system is moving up to version 4.0
Multi award-winning MVT connects shippers to their entire supply chain, providing real-time visibility, milestone event management, control and intelligence, in a secure cloud ba...
Read more Metro leading the way in industry digitalisation
Leading analysts warn that some freight forwarders and 3PLs will be unable to respond quickly to supply chain changes and the technology that supports it. Metro already have the answer.
As global manufacturing, and the supply chains that support it, continue to be transformed by new technology...
Read more Challenging shipping and supply chains
As the Coronavirus pandemic has spread globally, deep supply and demand shocks have severely disrupted international trade. Marine Traffic a data solutions provider is hosting a series of digital sessions on the future of shipping and what container movements may tell us about our return to prosp...
Read more India approve use of ‘Blockchain’ Bills of Lading
Just weeks after we reported on the Digital Container Shipping Association’s (DCSA) initiative to enable the collaboration necessary for achieving full eBL adoption, India is set to allow bills of lading to be filed over a blockchain platform.
India’s efforts to digitise its maritime suppl...
Read more Digital disruption is just noise
Digital disruptors will no more kill-off today’s forwarding sector than the advent of European rail did in the 1800s, according to director general of the British International Freight Association (BIFA), Robert Keen.
This week Robert Keen (pictured) described comments from a ‘disrupter’...
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