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Schedule Reliability: The Little-Discussed Indicator with Outsized Impact

Businesses often look at freight rates first, yet vessel punctuality is the quiet factor that determines the efficiency of the entire supply chain from warehouse to shelf.

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From Seaport to Port Hinterland: Where Is the Real Bottleneck?

From Seaport to Port Hinterland: Where Is the Real Bottleneck?

Many places have invested quickly in port berths, yet post-port connectivity is what truly determines whether cargo moves fast or slow, and whether costs escalate or remain under control.

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Green Fuels for Shipping: Who Pays the Bill?

Green Fuels for Shipping: Who Pays the Bill?

From methanol and ammonia to biofuels, the biggest question is not merely whether the technology is available, but how the costs of the transition will be shared among the stakeholders.

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After the Red Sea, the World Relearns the Logic of Seaborne Trade

After the Red Sea, the World Relearns the Logic of Seaborne Trade

Disruptions along critical maritime routes have forced businesses to rethink their entire approach to shipping lanes, buffer time, inventory, and the allocation of risk at sea.

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The Race to Secure a Position in the Global Value Chain

The Race to Secure a Position in the Global Value Chain

Every country wants to move beyond the stage of simple processing and assembly; logistics is therefore no longer merely a supporting service, but a strategic tool for climbing the value ladder and retaining investment.

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From digital learning to AI and delay insurance: how should Vietnamese forwarders upgrade their capabilities?

From digital learning to AI and delay insurance: how should Vietnamese forwarders upgrade their capabilities?

One of the clearest signals from the 2026 FIATA HQ Meeting is that competition in freight forwarding is moving beyond the basic question of whether to digitise. The real question now is how deeply firms digitise, with what capabilities, and under which standards of trust, implementation and governance. This was visible across the session on “Building Effective Digital Learning”, the eFBL User Clinic and the panel “Unlocking Value with Emerging Technologies in Freight Forwarding”. In other words,

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When Politics Deeply Intervenes in the Flow of Goods

When Politics Deeply Intervenes in the Flow of Goods

From chips, batteries, and minerals to energy, an increasing number of commodities are being directly shaped by national policies; logistics has therefore become an inseparable part of geoeconomics.

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As FDI accelerates, logistics enters a race for resilience

As FDI accelerates, logistics enters a race for resilience

Vietnam’s strong FDI momentum is creating fresh growth space for the logistics sector, but it is also raising the bar for partner selection. In a world where geopolitical shocks and climate disruption repeatedly unsettle supply chains, competitive advantage is no longer defined mainly by low freight rates, but by the ability to keep cargo moving safely, consistently and with speed under stress.

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From Geneva to Vietnam: global logistics enters a phase transition

From Geneva to Vietnam: global logistics enters a phase transition

The 2026 FIATA HQ Meeting in Geneva was more than an annual gathering of the international forwarding community. Beneath the theme “Logistics in Transition: Bringing Knowledge to Action” lay a sharper message: global supply chains are entering a new phase in which geopolitics, trade reconfiguration, digitalisation and resilience requirements are reshaping the rules at the same time.

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Logistics in an Era of Prolonged Uncertainty

Logistics in an Era of Prolonged Uncertainty

Uncertainty is no longer an exceptional disruption; it is becoming the new normal of global trade, forcing logistics to move from passive reaction to proactive forecasting and coordination.

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From Just in Time to Just in Case

From Just in Time to Just in Case

After repeated global shocks, the philosophy of absolute lean efficiency is giving way to calculated preparedness, where inventory, backup sources, and rapid response capability are being revalued.

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Multi-Polar Supply Chains and the Challenge for Vietnamese Businesses

Multi-Polar Supply Chains and the Challenge for Vietnamese Businesses

The world is moving from linear globalization to multi-polar networks, where businesses must learn to live with fragmentation, uncertainty, and increasingly dense compliance standards.

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Vietnam in the New China+1 Race

Vietnam in the New China+1 Race

The China+1 wave is entering a more selective phase: investors are no longer looking only for a place to build factories, but for locations with logistics that are deep enough, fast enough, and stable enough to reduce long-term risk.

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Vietnam and the endurance test of global logistics

Vietnam and the endurance test of global logistics

Vietnam is not at the epicentre of major geopolitical conflict, but it is highly exposed to the economic aftershocks of almost every major logistics disruption. With one of the highest trade-to-GDP ratios in the region, turbulence in Hormuz, Suez, the Red Sea or other strategic corridors can quickly feed into Vietnam through fuel costs, ocean freight, transit time, delivery schedules, export orders and multinational expectations. When Vietnam is placed in the context of global supply chains shif

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When cost is no longer king in supply chains

When cost is no longer king in supply chains

For decades, global supply chains were organized around a near-absolute belief: if cost is optimized, efficiency is optimized. Produce where it is cheapest, ship along the fastest route, keep inventories lean and deliver just in time - that was the winning formula of accelerated globalization. However, the current situation has raised a very fundamental question:

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Hormuz: a late warning for global trade

Hormuz: a late warning for global trade

The Strait of Hormuz usually dominates headlines only when the Middle East turns volatile. Yet from a logistics and trade-structure perspective, Hormuz is not a “new shock” at all. It is a repeated reminder of a deeper weakness in globalization: too much of the world’s energy and strategic cargo still moves through too few gateways. That is the core argument running through the uploaded document, and it becomes even more compelling

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Geopolitical instability and interconnected risks raise fears of Black Swan scenarios

Geopolitical instability and interconnected risks raise fears of Black Swan scenarios

Around 50% of companies see supply chain paralysis and a global internet outage as the two most plausible Black Swan scenarios in the next five years. Geopolitical noise around the globe masks risks from high-impact climate, health, and future technology risks. Different risk perceptions between multinational enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses.

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Renewable Energy Logistics: Solving the Heavy-Lift Puzzle for Vietnam’s Wind and Solar Projects

Renewable Energy Logistics: Solving the Heavy-Lift Puzzle for Vietnam’s Wind and Solar Projects

As Vietnam shifts its energy system, a wave of wind and solar projects is rolling across the country from north to south. By May 2025, Vietnam had around 150 onshore wind projects with a combined installed capacity of about 8,000 MW under power purchase agreements with EVN, while onshore and nearshore wind capacity in operation reached about 5,714 MW as of May 2024.

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Supply Chain Cybersecurity: When Ransomware Becomes the New Storm Hitting Global Logistics

Supply Chain Cybersecurity: When Ransomware Becomes the New Storm Hitting Global Logistics

If port congestion and container shortages used to be the logistics industry’s worst nightmares, in recent years ransomware and cyber-attacks have emerged as a new “storm.” In 2025 alone, one threat-intelligence report documented 283 verified ransomware incidents targeting transport and logistics firms - more than the combined total of 2023 and 2024.

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Building Resilient Supply Chains: How Can Vietnam Prepare for the Next Shock?

Building Resilient Supply Chains: How Can Vietnam Prepare for the Next Shock?

In less than a decade, global supply chains have been rocked by successive shocks: pandemics, geopolitical tensions, disruptions in key shipping lanes, extreme weather events, exchange-rate volatility and fuel price spikes. Each shock has left clear marks on Vietnamese businesses: abrupt order changes, soaring freight rates, container shortages, input disruptions and overloaded warehouses.

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From 3PL to 4PL/LLP: The Next Upgrade for Vietnam’s Logistics Providers

From 3PL to 4PL/LLP: The Next Upgrade for Vietnam’s Logistics Providers

Over the past decade, many Vietnamese logistics companies have moved quickly from offering stand-alone services (trucking, customs brokerage, warehousing) to 3PL – bundled, contract-based logistics solutions.

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ENOVA - “Green Engineering” Setting New Benchmarks for Operations and Investment Value in Energy

ENOVA - “Green Engineering” Setting New Benchmarks for Operations and Investment Value in Energy

In Vietnam’s accelerating energy transition and under rising expectations for sustainable development - businesses are no longer looking for solutions that merely “get installed.” What matters now is whether a system can run safely, steadily, and efficiently across the full life cycle of an investment.

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