Breakfast at an airport in the middle of the night. It was something I often had – before the pandemic. And now again. This week in Dubai has really convinced me that we are on our way to recovery from the Covid pandemic. People on airplanes, hotels & restaurants. Lots of people on the …
Today it was the Customs-Trade-Border Day of the IBMATA 2022 Summit in Dubai. I moderated two panels & interview sessions with high level officals, including Ricardo Treviño Chapa Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, Dr. Samir Hamrouni CEO of World FZO, His Excellency Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, CEO of Ports, Customs and Free …
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Day 2 of the IBMATA 2022 Middle East Summit. Today it is time for Customs, borders & world trade. I have the honor to moderate the sessions today with an amazing number of high-level leaders & experts from the world in key notes, panels & one-to-one interviews.
Don’t miss the event of the year in Dubai next week, 15-16 March. I will be there moderating the Customs part of the summit and we have an amazing line up speakers and panelists. IBMATA is the leading think-tank for border innovation globally. We want you involved, see you there. You find the agenda …
New report by Kommerskollegium | National Board of Trade Sweden: “Learning by Using Free Trade Agreements”. Main findings: ✅Firms learn to use free trade agreements by making repeated import transactions (“learning by doing”), time active in trade is of less importance ✅Using various suppliers is more important than importing different products for achieving high …
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ABF Acting Commissioner Cheryl Pearce, AM, CSC delivered a speech at the fifth Australian Trusted Trader (ATT) Symposium to celebrate the ongoing success of the ATT program since its introduction in 2016. I want to congratulate ABF for making ATT a tremendous success, one of the best Trusted Trader Programmes in the world. A …
Our ambition in Maersk to increase gender diversity at all levels has now been elevated in 2022 as a key driver into our Environment, Social and Governance strategy. Together we can forge gender equality. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias. The Transport & Logistics industry has traditionally been a male dominated industry, and this is …
Guld News claims that was unthinkable for so many years could be possible in near time. Within the next 10 years, Israel could emerge as a Top 10 trading partner for the UAE, according to a top Dubai Chamber official. If all goes to plan, that target could even be met in five years …
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A mentor, a source of inspiration, a fantastic & an extremely generous person. One of my best friends in the customs world. This week I met Alan Bersin in Copenhagen. Alan and I go way back and he is one of the persons in the customs community with a longer CV that mine. Hero.
War Shocks Ripple Across One of the World’s Busiest Trade Lanes “Currently, there’s little if any spare ocean freight capacity to move globally traded goods to absorb even an isolated, regional shock”“There is no slack in the system so anything that holds up ships anywhere will lead to less capacity,” Read the article here: …
Great team dinner tonight at Seaside Toldboden in Copenhagen. This is one of the best and most talented teams I have ever worked with. Great professionals, brilliant people.
Interesting article from Philippe Isler from WEF Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation (GATF) about how trade facilitation plays a crucial role in the supply chain developments needed in the post-pandemic world. After two years of a global pandemic, international trade is bruised and battered. The carefully tuned machinery we call the supply chain has …
On February 26th the sixth and final series of BBCs Peaky Blinders will start. The epic TV drama about a Birmingham gangster family set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby and his family. I can’t wait to …
Maersk launches Digital Customs Academy with the UK IOE&IT to support customers with the complexity of customs. It’s a truly global e-learning platform for customs, logistics and global trade compliance. “In a globalised post-pandemic world, customs competence and knowledge ensures compliance and security, externally and internally. Maersk’s Digital Customs Academy provides capacity-building through a …
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Five years since the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) entered into force on 22 February 2017, global trade flows are well positioned for a COVID-19 recovery on the back of WTO members’ steady progress in implementing the landmark Agreement. Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the TFA has helped support global supply chain resilience and called for …
This week I am back in London. I have been here also during the pandemic, but now it is easier to go and be here again. Next week the final Covid-19 restrictions are removed. Let’s hope it stays that way. People on the plane, in the airport, at Paddington and in the city. People …
It is Twos-Day today: 22/02/2022. Let’s use this opportunity to start supporting each other better. Help somebody in need. Send a short message of support to somebody. Get in contact with someone you haven’t talked to in a while.
If any man proves that age is just a number, it’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Despite being 40 years old in a career that for most ordinary humans finishes in their mid thirties, he is still going strong and performing at the vey top level for Italian giants AC Milan. What makes him so special? Well, …
Today we – Sweden – won our 8th Gold Medal in the Beijing 2022 Olympics when Team Edin won the final against United Kingdom in an 11th extra round (11-10). Now Team Edin is World, European and Olympic Champions. Grest win! It was an exciting final with Sweden leading all the way through. Sweden …
”Negotiated over 88 days”. A new world record. India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed a bilateral “comprehensive” trade pact on Friday. Announcing the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), the biggest trade pact of the last seven years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed investment from the Gulf country into Jammu and Kashmir and …