Brexit and Customs: The New Process
Guaranteeing your cargo will be UK import ready from the 1st January 2021 takes preparation. Or prepare for delays and additional costs.
In the build-up to the earliest Brexit deadlines in 2019, HMRC announced a series of easements designed to simplify the movement of good from the EU into the...
Read more Automating Brexit
Data and information will be the key to smooth 24 hour 7 day a week clearances, by sharing information now with Metro we can expedite arrivals and departures for your EU business
Automating Brexit Data and information will be the key to smooth 24 hour 7 day a week clearances, by sharing inform...
Read more Terms of trade will trip you up
The two most popular terms of trade used for EU/UK movement currently, will have profoundly different outcomes when the transition period ends
Incoterms rules determine who has fiscal and legal responsibility for security and customs declarations, which means the two most popular Incoterms use...
Read more Latest on USA Trade agreement post Brexit
The United States is Britain’s biggest trading partner after the EU, accounting for nearly 19% of all exports and 11% of imports and both sides hope a trade deal can be reached in 2020, but there are many hurdles.
Trade talks with the US, started via video link on the 5th May, involving more...
Read more Shipping line CEO sees signs of June recovery
An increase in Chinese manufacturing in May, combined with seasonal demand for summer products, and a need to replenish inventories are the basis for optimism by container lines serving Asia exports markets, according to Jeremy Nixon, CEO of Ocean Network Express (ONE).
The need for replenishm...
Read more Be more Oscar!
Metro colleague, Dani Jealous’ son has very sadly recently been diagnosed with Batten Disease, a rarely inherited condition that affects the nervous system and is a genetic life-limiting neurodegenerative disease.
The genes causing Batten were only identified in 1995 and the only current med...
Read more The Metro team talk: Dave Jones
Metro has evolved continuously over the last four decades and Dave’s journey with us over the last two and a half, mirrors many of Metro’s evolutions, developments and innovations.
Dave’s professional life began on the carrier side, with a container shipping line in Liverpool and Birming...
Read more Lines effectively write off 2020 peak season
It is clear that the container shipping lines are expecting weak demand to extend into the peak season, with the announcement of blank sailings for the third quarter global network schedule.
In total 75 blank sailings have been announced for Q3.
Maersk and MSC has announced the cancellation...
Read more Digital disruption is just noise
Digital disruptors will no more kill-off today’s forwarding sector than the advent of European rail did in the 1800s, according to director general of the British International Freight Association (BIFA), Robert Keen.
This week Robert Keen (pictured) described comments from a ‘disrupter’...
Read more Apparel factories face closure
As millions of garment workers face uncertainty globally because of cancelled orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly half of the world’s leading clothing brands have yet to publicly claim financial responsibility for finished garments.
Apparel factories in Bangladesh are still running at ...
Read more The Metro team talk: Linzi Barnes-Cox
We often talk about the need for resilient, agile and flexible supply chains. And while our leading-edge technology creates the environment to support those aspirations, it is colleagues like Linzi that make things happen.
Linzi’s wide-ranging skills and capabilities have been honed over a d...
Read more Metro Offices – We’re Back!
The vast majority of Metro staff have been working successfully from home over the past 10 weeks and now we are returning to our offices, gradually and safely.
As announced by the Government last week, the UK’s rate of infection has now reduced to below 1, meaning we can slowly begin to retu...
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