Industry bodies clamp down on illegal wildlife trafficking in global supply chains
NewsTen international organisations have produced guidelines to help identify criminal wildlife trade, and report suspicious activities.
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The move has been welcomed by shipper and forwarder groups
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Ten international organisations have produced guidelines to help identify criminal wildlife trade, and report suspicious activities.
“Environmental and sustainability issues are not new. Whilst the focus is often on carbon emissions, there are other wide-ranging generic issues.”
An industry survey on carbon emissions within the logistics sector conducted by the British International Freight Association (BIFA) indicates that it is not just legislation that is driving change, as client pressure and internal initiatives are also increasingly significant
So say the Global Shippers Forum and MDS Transmodal, as they release the latest edition of the Container Shipping Market Quarterly Review, reporting data from Q3 2022.
Ten trade organisations, representing the owners and forwarders of cargo, port terminal operators and other parts of the supply chain dependent on container shipping, are demanding an immediate start to the review of European Union’s Consortia Block Exemption Regulation for the container shipping industry
The indicator is proposed to show that the traditional HHI used by competition authorities in the US and Europe, and supported by the World Shipping Council, considerably understates the level of concentration in container liner shipping