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Downloaded 01JUN2011 from opim.wharton.upenn.edu/risk/downloads/TRIA%20and%20Beyond.pdf Preface Terrorism risk poses fundamental challenges to our national security that must beseen in a dynamic perspective as the threat is continuously evolving. ...
Read MoreExtracted 15JUN2011 from http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=BS+ISO+28000%3a2007 SME/32[03.100.10][47.020.99] ISO 28000:2007 specifies the requirements for a security management system, including those aspects critical to security assur...
Read MoreDownloaded 09JUN2011 from http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/cargo_security/ctpat/supply_chain/ In order to assist C-TPAT Partners with conducting a risk assessment of their international supply chain(s) in accordance with C-TPAT minimum security cr...
Read MoreExtracted 08JUN2011 from http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/developing_countries.htm
Read MoreThe "Trade and Transport Facilitation Assessment: A Practical Toolkit for Country Implementation" by the World Bank (2010) can be downloaded free from http://www.gfptt.org/entities/ReferenceReadingProfile.aspx?id=4e214156-4cd1-4... This new editi...
Read MoreExtracted 07JUN2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTO The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrak...
Read MoreExtracted 07JUN2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_union and various other sources The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-b...
Read MoreExtracted 07JUN2011 from http://www.oecd.org/document/63/0,3746,en_21571361_38481278_47281343_1_1_1_1,... Jointly organised by the French Presidency of the G20 and the OECD and supported by UNODC, discussions at this anti-corruption conferencefor ...
Read MoreExtracted 28MAY2011 from http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/freight_forwarding_choosing_the_best_par... “Third- and fourth-party logistics providers are always freight forwarders,” says Shay Scott, director of the Global Supply Chain Institute (...
Read MoreThe report can be downloaded free from http://www.freightwatchintl.com/ (requires signup for free account) "On a country‐by‐country basis, cargo theft threats, as other criminal activity, typically are rooted in social, economic and cultural condi...
Read MoreExtracted 02JUN2011 from http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/Pub/new.html The Glossary for Transport Statistics was published for the first time in 1994 with the purpose of assisting member countries during the collection of data on transpo...
Read MoreExtracted from http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/Pub/new.html Published earlier than comparable studies, these statistics provide the most recent figures on selected transport variables in the Forum countries and they throw light on trans...
Read MoreDownloaded 02JUN2011 from http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/Pub/new.html Meeting the Needs of 9 Billion People The world’s population will reach 9 billion by 2050. Meeting their transport demands will be challenging. As both population an...
Read MoreExtracted 02JUN2011 from http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/Proceedings/reliability/index.html This is a summary of the report Improving Reliability on Surface Transport Networks. The report was developed by a group of international expert...
Read MoreExtracted 02JUN2011 from http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/jtrc/globalisation/index.html Conclusions The supply chain industry is subject to increasing vertical and horizontal concentration. This arguably has lead to more efficiency in th...
Read MoreExtracted 02JUN2011 from http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/about/about.html Who we are The International Transport Forum at the OECD is an intergovernmental organisation with 52 member countries. It acts as a strategic think tank for tran...
Read MoreExtracted 01JUN2011 from http://www.oecd.org/document/26/0,3746,en_2649_34889_36899994_1_1_1_1,00.html The OECD Risk Awareness Tool for Multinational Enterprises in Weak Governance Zones was adopted by the OECD Council on 8 June 2006. It aims to h...
Read MoreExtracted 01JUN2011 from http://www.oecd.org/document/43/0,3746,en_2649_34889_2074731_1_1_1_1,00.html Implementation procedure The governments of the countries adhering to the Guidelines -- which are the source of most of the world's direct invest...
Read MoreExtracted from Global Risks 2011. Free report can be downloaded from http://www.weforum.org/s?filters=ss_cck_field_report_type%3A%22Risks%20Reports%22%20type%3Areport&s=global%20risks. As the different chapters of this report have shown, addressin...
Read MoreExtracted 31MAY2011 from http://www.pwc.com/anti-corruption PwC's Confronting Corruption report examines what companies are currently doing to manage the risk of corruption and the steps they can consider to better protect themselves in the future...
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