Logistics risk and compliance
Liability, insurance, cargo claims, controls and security — the obligations that attach to moving other people's goods.
- ADR road dangerous goods: vehicle, driver and paperwork controls
What the European road agreement for dangerous goods requires of vehicles, drivers and documents, and how exemptions reduce the burden for small loads.
- Air dangerous goods compliance: acceptance checks that stop a shipment
Why hazardous air cargo faces the strictest regime of any mode, how acceptance checks work, and where state and operator variations override the base rules.
- Audit trails in logistics: reconstructing what happened months later
What makes a logistics record defensible to auditors and courts: linked source documents, system logs, retention discipline and controlled corrections.
- Cargo claims: the sequence that decides whether a loss is recovered
The working sequence for a transport loss: preserve evidence, notify in time, mitigate, quantify the claim and choose the right respondent.
- Cargo insurance: what a policy pays for when carrier liability falls short
How a cargo policy responds to loss or damage in transit, why recovery from a carrier covers only part of a claim, and who should buy cover.
- Cargo theft prevention: where loads are taken and what stops it
The methods used against freight in transit and at rest, the controls that work at each point, and how insurance conditions shape operating rules.
- Carrier liability: how responsibility for goods is presumed, defended and capped
The common structure behind carrier liability across modes: a period of responsibility, a presumption against the carrier, listed defences and a capped payout.
- Claims documentation: assembling a file a carrier cannot easily refuse
Which documents a cargo claim file needs, what each one proves, and how gaps in the evidence chain give a carrier or insurer a defence.
- CMR liability: how the road convention allocates risk on cross-border trucking
How the international road carriage convention works in practice: the consignment note, presumed liability, delivery reservations and successive carriers.
- Cold chain compliance: proving temperature was held, not just measured
How temperature-controlled consignments are qualified, monitored and released, and why an unexplained excursion is a documentation failure first.
- Customs compliance programmes: earning trusted status and keeping it
How trusted trader schemes assess internal control, records and security, what authorisation delivers, and what an operator must maintain afterwards.
- Dangerous goods compliance: one classification, four different rulebooks
How hazardous cargo is classified once and then regulated differently by sea, air, road and rail, and what a shipper must control at each stage.
- Data protection in logistics: personal data hidden inside freight records
Where personal data sits in shipping records, driver telematics and delivery evidence, and how controller and processor roles shape a provider's duties.
- Export control compliance: dual-use items, end use and the catch-all
How dual-use export controls classify items, when an authorisation is needed, and why end use and end user can restrict goods that appear on no list.
- Food safety in logistics: hygiene duties that follow the pallet
What hygiene, traceability and recall obligations mean for warehouses and hauliers handling food, and why previous cargo is a regulated question.
- Forwarder liability: agent, principal and the capacity that decides everything
Why a forwarder's exposure depends on whether it arranged carriage or contracted to perform it, and how trading conditions shape what a customer can recover.
- Freight fraud: stolen identities, fictitious pickups and diverted payments
How fraudsters impersonate carriers, collect loads that never arrive and redirect payments, and the verification steps that interrupt each method.
- General average: why cargo owners pay towards a shipowner's rescue
How general average shares casualty costs between ship and cargo, what a declaration triggers, and why security must be provided before goods are released.
- Goods in transit insurance: what a haulier's policy actually protects
Why a haulier's transit policy insures its own liability rather than a customer's goods, and which conditions most often defeat a claim on it.
- Hague-Visby Rules: the sea carriage bargain behind a bill of lading
What the sea carriage rules require of a shipowner, the exceptions they grant, and how package limitation and the bill of lading fit together.
- IMDG compliance: stowage, segregation and the container that catches fire
How the maritime dangerous goods code controls packing, stowage and segregation of hazardous containers, and why misdeclaration causes ship fires.
- Limitation of liability conventions: why transport compensation is capped by treaty
How international transport treaties cap compensation, why limits use a unit of account, and the conduct that can break a limit in most regimes.
- Marine cargo insurance: clause sets, attachment and the sea-specific risks
How marine clause sets differ in the breadth of cover, when transit attaches and ends, and which sea perils drive the wording traders are offered.
- Montreal Convention liability for air cargo: strict rules, tight windows
How the modern air carriage treaty makes carriers answerable for cargo, the narrow defences available, and why written complaint deadlines are unforgiving.
- Pharmaceutical logistics compliance: distribution practice from dock to dispatch
How good distribution practice shapes medicine warehousing and transport: qualified suppliers, a responsible person, controlled storage and verified returns.
- Proof of delivery disputes: what a signature does and does not settle
How delivery evidence is challenged, why clean signatures create presumptions, and what electronic capture must record to resolve a shortage claim.
- Restricted party screening: making name matching produce useful answers
How screening against restricted party lists works in practice, why false positives dominate, and what an auditable screening record must contain.
- Sanctions compliance in freight: the checks that decide whether a booking moves
How sanctions measures reach freight bookings through listed parties, sectoral restrictions and destination controls, and the red flags operators watch for.
- Subcontractor risk: the chain you did not agree to and cannot see
What goes wrong when transport is passed down a chain: liability gaps, unverified insurance, unauthorised handovers and the fraud they enable.
- Subrogation and recovery: how an insurer pursues the party that caused the loss
What happens after a cargo insurer pays: how subrogated rights transfer, why the assured must preserve recourse, and what defeats a recovery action.
- Supplier risk management: due diligence that outlives the onboarding form
How to assess and monitor logistics and sourcing suppliers across financial, compliance, security and conduct risk, and when to act on what you find.
- Supply chain security: layered controls from factory gate to final delivery
How security frameworks for ports, cargo and trusted traders fit together, and what a layered programme controls at each handover in the chain.
- Transport cybersecurity: when an attack stops cargo rather than data
Why cyber incidents in logistics halt physical operations, how maritime and EU rules frame the duty, and which controls protect booking and terminal systems.
- Transport documentation integrity: when a wrong description becomes a liability
Why inaccurate shipping descriptions, weights and party details create safety, customs and liability exposure, and how document control prevents it.