Expert Commentaries
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...
eLearning Benefits for Companies

eLearning Benefits for Companies

|Thomas Smith
In many cases, the biggest dilemma facing a company considering employing e-Learning as a tool to train staff is how to justify the cost of such an approach.Within the context...
The “fraud exception” and the L/C independence principle

The “fraud exception” and the L/C independence principle

|Export Academy Faculty
The “fraud exception” and the L/C independence principle As L/C practitioners know, the documentary credit is a bank’s undertaking to pay against presentation of documents which comply with the terms...
Perhaps it’s time for a URC 522 revision

Perhaps it’s time for a URC 522 revision

|Export Academy Faculty
One of the most valuable activities of the ICC Banking Commission is, without any doubt, the constant updating of the International Rules that they issue to govern various aspects of international trade. ...
Benefits & risks for banks in Supply Chain Finance

Benefits & risks for banks in Supply Chain Finance

|Export Academy Faculty
I have a Labrador dog, Andy whose breed originated in Greenland. I buy its food online in a store located in Germany whose product of Canadian origin is delivered directly to...
India – An Emerging Tiger

India – An Emerging Tiger

|Export Academy Faculty
Interest in India has never been greater. Here CP Balachandran, one of the subcontinent’s most respected trade finance bankers, offers precious insights into this complex, multifaceted land, which despite its...
MathsatSea.com : a new and exciting e-learning tool for nautical Maths

MathsatSea.com : a new and exciting e-learning tool for nautical Maths

|Export Academy Faculty
Many young people embark upon a career at sea ill-equipped to cope with the academic rigours awaiting them at nautical college, especially in terms of tackling the level and type...
Internet Trading and Documentary Credits

Internet Trading and Documentary Credits

|Export Academy Faculty
– a stumbling block, a challenge or an opportunity?Serious exporters, large and small offering product to international markets have developed sophisticated straight through export processing systems. Everything from order receipt,...
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...