Earthquake death toll rises in Turkey and Syria, with supply line chaos
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkish and Syrian border towns yesterday, with aftershocks, has ...
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By Alex Lennane
It won’t have helped Aramex, but there is a useful warning in this story about the benefits of complying with the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry. The Dubai office of the forwarder was forced to pay a $125,000 penalty after it shipped network devices and software to Syria without the necessary licences. Computerlinks of Dubai paid a $2.8m penalty for some of the same transactions. Freight forwarders need to be aware.
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