GSCW chat: Port of Oakland works to increase export capacity
This fireside chat recap is from Day 5 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Port of Oakland perspective on the pandemic and...
Month : February 2022
Freight rate hikes over past 2 years unprecedented, economist says
No one needs to tell the users of transport services how high freight rates have climbed during the past two years. But recently released producer...
Why I Bought It: Collector Koen Simon And His IWC Reference 504 ‘Türler’
Koen Simon is a 26-year-old watch collector from The Netherlands. A regular reader of Quill & Pad, he is a fan of high-end watchmaking. He...
Wolverine (WWW) Queued Up for Q4 Earnings: What’s in Store?
Wolverine World Wide, Inc. WWW is expected to report increases in its top and the bottom line from the respective year-ago quarter’s reported figures when...
Beware: Our N95 Supply Chain Is Fragile
The availability of N95 respirators, a critical piece of personal protective equipment (PPE), has been a top concern throughout the pandemic as COVID-19 surges exposed...
Evolving the best of framework procurement – ditching the rest
In this series of posts we offer practical observations to implement some of the recommendations from “Constructing the Gold Standard”, an Independent Review of Public...
In Practice: ESG & the SEC — How general counsel can navigate a year of unprecedented change | Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and Compliance Learning
[guest author: Rose Ors]* With regulators casting a strong eye on how corporations are disclosing their ESG initiatives, what can GCs do to manage the...
4,000 cars adrift at sea after cargo ship fire
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Why Billionaire Carl Icahn Just Called Out McDonald’s Supply Chain
According to Business Insider, McDonald’s was supposed to phase out use of gestation crates for its pigs starting in 2012. These crates are used to...
Meet Emma Gilmour, McLaren’s first female factory driver after swapping horses for motor sport
Emma Gilmour is surely the only person in the world who, upon deciding horse riding was too risky, elected to race cars instead. It was...