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Prof John Manners-Bell is Chief Executive of Ti, Honorary Visiting Professor at the London Metropolitan University’s Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law and an adviser to the World Economic Forum. He has over 25 years’ experience working in and analysing the global logistics sector. John started his working life as an operations manager of a logistics company based in the UK. Prior to establishing Ti in 2002, he worked as an analyst in consultancies specialising in international trade, transport and logistics. He also spent a number of years as a manager of UPS, in a strategic marketing and communications role. John holds an MSc in Transport Planning and Management from University of Westminster and is an Associate of King’s College London where he studied Classics and Theology. He is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and former Chair of the Supply Chain and Logistics Global Advisory Council of the World Economic Forum. He has also advised the European Commission Directorate-General for Energy and Transport. He has written three books on the industry – ‘Global Logistics Strategies: Delivering the Goods’, ‘Supply Chain Risk: Understanding Emerging Threats to Global Supply Chains’ and ‘Logistics and Supply Chains in Emerging Markets’. His second book, ‘Supply Chain Risk’ won the Mention Speciale ACA-Bruel Prize for supply chain literature in 2014.
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Julia Swales, Senior Editor at Ti and Advisory Board Manager for The Foundation for Future Supply Chain, spoke to Punit Oza, Founder and Director of Maritime NXT and asked him why the EU may impose a tariff on the export of wind turbines from China.
It’s clear that the wave of crises continues for container supply chains. In a panel of industry experts at TOC Europe 2024, moderated by John Manners-Bell, Chief Executive of Transport Intelligence and Founder of the Foundation for Future Supply Chain at TOC Europe 2024, the panellists presented on the state of the market, looking at the data, exploring the trends and examining resilience. Will the cycle of boom/bust continue, characterised by adversarial relationships between shipper and carrier? It seems likely…
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The Canadian pipeline will provide better access to Asian markets, which is becoming even more important given that America will probably go through a political change in November, and an alternative to the Panama Canal.
Julia Swales, Senior Editor at Ti, interviewed Nick Wildgoose, CEO of Supplien Consulting, about how regulations are driving companies to assume full responsibility for their supply chains. The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (SCDDA) is currently in the spotlight and a major milestone in the fight against modern slavery. It entered into force in …
Julia Swales interviewed Alan McKinnon, Professor of Logistics at the Kuehne Logistics University in Hamburg, about decarbonization and climate proofing and the logistics challenges involved.
92% of the world economy is now covered by net zero pledges, but the carbon sequestration side of this is often overlooked. Reaching net zero is not just a matter of mitigating and reducing emissions, it’s about removing greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. Of course, the more we underperform in mitigation, the more dependent we will be on sequestering greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. That process is very logistics intensive, particularly if you look at the IPCC models and their projection for the amount of CO2 (8 billion tonnes) we’re going to have to capture, transport, and find underground places for permanent storage by the 2050s.
In an interview with Marcello Ferrari, VP Global Head of Customer Development, Healthcare Contract Logistics at Kuehne+Nagel, Julia Swales, Senior Editor at Ti asked him about the current state of the healthcare industry vertical. Marcello Ferrari talked about the macro perspective – market trends, the strategies they apply and how they respond to the dynamics …
In an interview with Poul Woodall, a senior manager in international shipping, he told Ti about the EU recently announcing that companies and shipowners will be able to blend sustainable fuels from a non-biological origin with fossil fuels, to reduce the average carbon content. This reduction is required by the FuelEU Maritime Initiative, which forms …
There can be economic, strategic or security imperatives behind attracting manufacturing jobs back from Asia (reshoring). However, in many other cases, the reasons are often nakedly political and the results disastrous – governments are very bad at backing ‘winners’ and often capricious with tax spend due to competing priorities.
