Best practice guides
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The Customs and Security Environment for UK International Traders
This guide is a briefing for supply chain mangers, logistics buyers and those responsible for trading procedures. It aims firstly to provide a general introduction to how the customs and security system works - how policy is made and what the key elements are. This should help supply chain managers understand how international organisations set standards and how these interact with the regulation in practice they encounter on the ground. Secondly it sets out to provide an update on the key upcoming issues that will have a significant impact on how the supply chain operates.
Security Update: US security policy
- A Shipper's Guide to the Abolition of Liner Conferences
This guide offers advice on the new EC competition law environment, some ideas about changes you can make, what the lines can and cannot do under the new competition rules and, importantly, how shippers can protect their new won rights. Moreover, the guide explains how EC competition rules apply to shippers and what risk management steps they should take in their dealings with shipowners and their competitors to ensure compliance with EC competition rules.
- Negotiating Modern Liner Shipping Terms
This guide is intended as a small first step in helping to create a more level playing field for shippers in discussing bill of lading terms, both in their contract negotiations prior to shipment and in any subsequent negotiation of claims for loss, damage and delay.
Please contact FTA if you wish to obtain copies of these documents.
