Corporate CEO and board member, business angel, operating partner and adviser. Former Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries, World Economic Forum, and Partner and Managing Director (China and India), CVA. President and CEO Emeritus, GeoPost Intercontinental. Former Head of Eastern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Regions, and Country General Manager Switzerland, TNT. Member of the advisory board of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society, Singapore, Ambassador of the European Freight and Logistics Leaders Forum, Brussels, Advisor of Global:SF, San Francisco, and founding member of the Logistikweisen, a logistics expert committee under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry BMDV, and NEXST, a think tank initiated by Reefknot, Kuehne & Nagel and SGInnovate, Singapore. FT, Forbes, Fortune, BI and Nikkei contributor; author of articles, white papers and several business books.
From Covid-induced lockdowns, port congestion, container imbalances and chassis shortages; to the Suez Canal blockage, the Panama Canal drought and Houthi attacks on commercial ships, the...
TradeTech – in short, technology that facilitates trade – can be understood in two layers: a first level of transforming internal systems and processes from analogue to digital; a second ...
COVID-19 is often linked to its impact on mobility and globalization. Stringent measures have been taken to contain the situation, which have constrained the movement of people and goods,...
Christmas 2017 was a busy one for retailers. During peak season, Amazon reported records for holiday shipping as they handled deliveries to 185 countries. UPS, meanwhile, said it was brea...
Last year Adidas has opened its first 3D-printing plant for sports shoes – its highly automated, so-called 'speedfactory' – in Ansbach, a small town in Bavaria in the south-eastern part o...
This paper examines the suitability of blockchain and blockchain-based distributed ledger technology (DLT) to the port, harbour and terminal industries. DLT has the potential to drastical...
For a long time it looked as if online shopping would gradually replace the high street. But the same digital development that was considered to be the end of physical shops may have brou...
From Amazon’s delivery drones to self-driving cars, autonomous factory equipment to Elon Musk’s vacuum tubes that transport items at 760 miles per hour – automated vehicles are on the rise.
International trade is under pressure. Fears fuelled by the global refugee situation and terrorist threats have led to tighter border controls – and these come at a cost. Every inspection...
La antigua e histórica ruta comercial entre China y Europa resurge como uno de los proyectos de infraestructura más grandes del siglo XXI, con importantes repercusiones en la economía de ...
The ancient and historic trade route between China and Europe is coming back to life as one of the biggest infrastructure projects of the 21st century, with major implications for economi...
In mid-December, people and families all over Europe and in many parts of the world were gearing up to celebrate Christmas, one of the most important events in the Christian calendar. But...
Donald Trump está camino a convertirse en el 45° presidente de Estados Unidos. Entre sus promesas se encuentra un 45% de impuestos a la importación de productos de China, la cancelación d...
唐纳德·特朗普已经朝着第四十五届美国总统的位置走去了。在竞选中，他承诺会对中国产品采取45%的进口税，退出《巴黎气候协议》，并正式为TPP环太平洋伙伴贸易协定画上句号。 如果特朗普不跟随美国原有的全球贸易和国际事务政策，他将给予其他“可操作的空间”，替代美国去引领和塑造全球化进程。美国在特朗普任内可能会从这个全球化的世界“后撤”（很大程度上这是一个美国帮助创造的世界），...
Donald Trump is on his way to becoming the 45th president of the United States. Among his promises are a 45% import tax on Chinese products, the cancellation of the Paris climate agreemen...
