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All Customs & Compliance Trade Lanes Sustainability Operations

Business documents and paperwork laid out on an office desk (customs documentation).

Customs & Compliance·6 min read

CDS is here: what UK importers still get wrong

With CHIEF retired and the Customs Declaration Service now mandatory, the most common — and costly — declaration errors are avoidable. Here’s where shipments still stall.

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A tightly stacked wall of brightly coloured shipping containers at a freight terminal.

Trade Lanes·5 min read

Ocean rates, red lanes and resilience: planning for 2026

Volatility on the major east–west lanes is now a planning assumption, not a shock. What resilient shippers are doing differently this year.

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An articulated semi truck hauling a trailer along a highway (road freight haulage).

Sustainability·4 min read

Measuring (and actually reducing) freight emissions

Mode choice, load efficiency and consolidation move the carbon number more than offsets. A pragmatic view of decarbonising the supply chain.

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Interior of an industrial warehouse showing a forklift among tall metal storage racking.

Operations·5 min read

Building a peak-ready e-commerce supply chain

Q4 doesn’t forgive a fragile supply chain. The capacity, visibility and fulfilment decisions to make months before peak.

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