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Roughly 90 per cent of world trade is transported across the high seas, firmly anchoring global industry and supply chains’ dependency on shipping. Gargantuan ships lugging enormous volumes of cargo across the world’s well-chartered marine highways give an image of steady and sure transportation. This is in contrast to aviation, where concerns about the vulnerability […]

By Alan McKinnon*, Director, Logistics Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, UK When logistics works, as it does almost all the time, nobody notices. It becomes an invisible service that we all take for granted. For example, when we shop in the typical department store, we seldom give a thought to all the complex processes that have […]