News / Know your cargo: the vital importance of due diligence

05/03/2024

A thorough understanding of your supply chain, specifically the full nature of any cargo accepted for transport and all relevant counterparties, is central to TT Club’s Cargo Integrity campaign explains TT’s Peregrine Storrs-Fox. He welcomes the recent endorsement of this aim by five US regulatory ...

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