More Women in Top Supply Chain Jobs
2020 has seen the highest rate of women top corporate supply chain positions then ever before. Retail and consumer goods have shown the largest leadership growth so far, these findings from Gartner’s 2020 Women in Supply Chain Survey are a great prompt to endorse more women to start a career in the logistics industry. According […]
COVID-19 Changing the way we Ship – Stockwell International
The COVID-19 virus has forced those that work in logistics to accept that Just In Time (JIT) shipping for certain commodities may be a thing of the past. Stockwell International has developed a warehouse function that will allow us to work with companies who will in the future, require to have pandemic stock on hand […]
New Weigh in Motion Scales at Port Botany and Container Weight Guidelines – Stockwell International
July 2020 Recently the Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) have expressed concerns with the number of overweight vehicles leaving the Port Botany Terminals on public roads. As a result the terminals have now installed Weigh In Motion Scales (WIMS) which will weigh every truck before leaving the terminal. These scales will measure both the gross […]
What’s the Difference Between Freight & Logistics Management?
Logistics management and freight management are both terms commonly thrown around in business. The terms logistics and freight are generally associated with the movement and transportation of goods by several different modes of transport including air, ocean, rail, and truck. But for professionals in the Supply Chain field, freight management and logistics management can have […]
COVID-19 and Supply Chain
There is much talk about what a ‘new normal’ will look like post COVID and for anyone with a supply chain it will go like this; Issue: Blank (omitted) sailings aggressively magnified to ensure maximum capacity (by removing capacity); this ensures that shipping lines can prevent a freight rate slide with decrease in demand to […]
Freight Forwarding 101: Everything You Need To Know
Freight forwarding is the highly competent process of shipping various cargo from one destination to another by way of various transport carriers, including sea, air, rail and road. A freight forwarder like Stockwell International will be your go-to representative who speaks on behalf of the shipper to the shipper’s preferred transportation service carrier. If you […]