Introduction: A Sector That Is Changing Its Cargo Mix—And Its Mission Across 2024 and into 2025, the UK’s ports did not stand still. While headline tonnage slipped marginally, the composition of what moved—and the capabilities built to handle it—shifted in important ways. Containerised flows set new records; roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) corridors adjusted to post-Brexit realities and [...]
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Introduction: From Linear Chains to Learning Networks For decades, supply chains have behaved like long, linear conveyor belts: plan, source, make, move, deliver. In a world of volatile demand, climate disruption, port congestion, and regulatory churn, that model no longer holds. The supply chain of the future looks less like a line and more like [...]
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Introduction: From Paper Borders to Intelligent, Trust-Based Gateways Customs modernisation has moved from a worthy aspiration to an urgent operational necessity. Trade volumes continue to climb on the back of e-commerce and near-shoring, while geopolitical shocks, sanctions regimes, and stricter product standards multiply the data points a single shipment must carry. The twentieth-century border—paper forms, [...]
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Introduction – From Buzzword to Board-Level Priority Only a few years ago “artificial intelligence” felt like distant hype to most freight and logistics professionals. Today the technology is embedded in route-planning consoles, warehouse-picking arms and customs-declaration portals, turning once-reactive supply chains into data-driven, self-optimising networks. The transformation is happening everywhere, but the United Kingdom finds [...]
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