Title: Vietnam Shipper No 67
Date: (01-05-2010)

Supply Chain Management

Top 10 Predictions for Global Supply Chains

 

None of us can fully know the longer-term impact of the current global recession, nor whether its effects will be transient or per-manent. Certainly, our sense is that many of the capabilities that proved useful in mitigating the negative effects of the recession will be reinforced by those who had the vision to develop them and cop-ied by those who did not.

 

The overall theme for IDC Manufacturing Insights’ supply chain pre-dictions this year, and indeed our research for 2010, is the notion of rethinking supply chain structures in an effort to move to more of a variable-cost-driven rather than a fixed-cost-driven network. Clearly, this is a response to a great deal of uncertainty about whether individ-ual markets or companies will return to prerecession sales and volume levels or whether current, hopefully post-recession, levels are the new baseline—the “new normal.” …(Read more on Vietnam Shipper Issue No. 67)

 

 

Logistics

Current situation of container terminals in HCMC and its vicinity – An update for the import-export enterprises and shipping lines

 

In the import and export formalities, beside such factors as packing fee, taking empty container to factory, label marking, toll fee, customs clearance etc, the service at the container terminal is also specially taken into account by the import-export enterprises. Container terminal service includes two main services provided to two main customer groups: the shipping line/agent and the importer/exporter (shipper/consignee). The service provided to the shipping line/agent may include the loading/discharging or stevedoring services (this service will contribute to decide the ship-at-berth time or ship turn-around time); the stuffing/stripping service; container storage; or the reefer monitoring service for reefer container (PTI-Pre Trip Inspection); service for dangerous cargo, out-of-gauge cargo; container repairing or cleaning service etc. For the importer/exporter, the container terminal may provide such service as lift-on/lift-off, cargo storage service, service in the CFS (Container Freight Station), or other value-added service that a terminal may add to satisfy its customers such as cargo labeling service, re-packing service etc.…(Read more on Vietnam Shipper Issue No. 67)

 

 

Shipper and Law

Primer on Freight Loss and Damage Claims

 

The starting point for cargo claims in the United States is the Carmack Amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act, which is found at Title 49 of the United States Code, Section 14706. This section is entitled Liability of Carriers Under Receipts and Bills of Lading. The liability imposed by that any carrier involved in the movement of goods is for the “actual loss or injury to the property”.

 

What you will not see in section 14706 is the judicial interpretation of the Carmack Amendment as it has developed during the last century. …(Read more on Vietnam Shipper Issue No. 67)