Expert Commentaries
Supply Chain Finance – a case study

Supply Chain Finance – a case study

|Export Academy Faculty
The article by Carlos Bacigalupe in the last edition of Trade Brief highlighted the advantages of Supply Chain Finance (SCF) and in particular how new methods of funding trade via...
Pumping Private Money into Trade Activities

Pumping Private Money into Trade Activities

|Export Academy Admin
Traditionally, trade finance has been provided to import/export companies by banks and/or other financial institutions. Such dependency of the financial sector adversely affects to both importers and exporters in their...
Getting Ready to Trade at SME level

Getting Ready to Trade at SME level

|Export Academy Faculty
SMEs have high expectations when they start to develop export strategies and define foreign market entry models. This might be influenced by different criteria varying from country to country. The...
Does Globalization create the Need for Cultural Understanding?

Does Globalization create the Need for Cultural Understanding?

|Export Academy Faculty
It seems like just a short time ago we lived in a world in which contact with other cultures was incidental and peripheral. Sure, there used to be immigrants from...
Achieving Export Competitiveness

Achieving Export Competitiveness

|Export Academy Faculty
This article summarizes a paper on “Applying the Four Gears of National Export Strategy to Achieve Export Competitiveness that I wrote back in May 2012.
The Practicalities of Customs Bonded Warehouses

The Practicalities of Customs Bonded Warehouses

|Export Academy Faculty
As more customs bonded warehouses spring up around the globe, exporters are in a good position to benefit from this counterparty performance and credit risk management tool.
Muddying the export waters

Muddying the export waters

|Export Academy Faculty
Muddying the export waters The row boiling up in Washington over the „no‟ vote on America‟s ExIm Bank charter and lending cap extension has made headlines in a debate that...
Notations and Multimodal Transport Documents

Notations and Multimodal Transport Documents

|Export Academy Faculty
In the autumn 2009 issue of DCInsight, Haluk Erdemol tackled on board notations as they apply to a B/L and multimodal transport documents (multimodal bills of lading). This is perhaps...
Financing Options for Exporters – Nigerian Perspective

Financing Options for Exporters – Nigerian Perspective

|Export Academy Faculty
Nigeria is an emerging economy with high growth potential. Unfortunately, most of it remains untapped due to many exportable commodities being neglected, as the federal government’s main focus is the...
Cash Crunch

Cash Crunch

|Export Academy Faculty
It is apparent that business can fail – over time – due to declining profitability. Furthermore, failure can stem from a lack of readily available cash, and poor short term...
Supply Chain Finance – a case study

Supply Chain Finance – a case study

|Export Academy Faculty
The article by Carlos Bacigalupe in the last edition of Trade Brief highlighted the advantages of Supply Chain Finance (SCF) and in particular how new methods of funding trade via...