How Hedging Currencies Can Be Used as a Tool for Managing Supply Chain Risks

Nearly every supply chain today has gone global at some level, making the phrase ‘global supply chain’ seem redundant in most cases. If you’ve only ever engaged in local trade, the logistics of cross-border trade — exchange rates, shipping times, language barriers, and time differences — would have been the least of your worries. Investors […]

Trade Finance Solutions Help You Lower Your Risk

A transaction, in its simplest form, is the exchange of goods between two parties: a buyer and a seller. While a local operation at the same physical location cannot be more straightforward, international trade (or any trade involving a significant distance between buyer and seller, for that matter) is more complicated and is not without […]

ICIS 2016 World Base Oils & Lubricants Conference: INSIGHTS

It is already a month since we met last time in London. We would like to share with you a number of interesting facts about base oil market, that we learned during the conference. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE More and more customers (traders, blenders and distributors) fro m any part of the world are looking […]

ICIS 2016 World Base Oils & Lubricants Conference: INSIGHTS

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Partners! It is already a month since we met last time in London. We would like to share with you a number of interesting facts about base oil market, that we learned during the conference. Here’s the first of BeFlexi’s insights: STRATEGIC LOCATION More than 600 delegates from over 50 countries joined […]

BeFlexi Participates at the Oilseed Congress in Barcelona

The congress is highly praised for its ways of presenting a global overview of the oilseed market and the current origins and consumptive markets for oilseeds, as well as its derivatives. There was also a major focus on presenting new strategies for financing and developing risk management policies to overcome competition. The price of palm […]

Flexitanks and Their Use in Emergencies and Helping Aid Agencies

Flexitanks have come a long way since it began development in the 1960s. They were originally conceived by the United States military as a means to store and transport water and diesel fuel in bulk. In recent times, modern applications of flexitanks have become far more varied. In fact, the use of flexitanks has now […]

Increasing Profits by Bottling Imported Wine Locally and Shipping With Flexitanks

The logistics of shipping liquids has taken a huge leap in the last few years with the introduction of (and subsequent improvements made in) liquid bulk shipping. In a study published in 2008 by Waste & Resource Action Programme UK (WRAP), they found that almost three times the amount of wine could be shipped in […]

Flexitanks Vs. Tanker Vessels

Companies all over the world are finding efficient ways to deliver goods from point A to point B. In recent years, the environment played a vital role in decisions about liquid logistics due to environmental hazards caused by transporting different types of fluids. Aside from finding efficient, cheap, and fast ways to transfer liquid goods, […]

Foreign Investment is Vital in Building an Efficient Supply Chain

  International investment is vital for most economies and particularly important for developing countries. A country may have the labor and natural resources for particular products that are highly demanded by the international community but lack the capital needed to start producing. Likewise, they may lack the infrastructure necessary to transport the product through an efficient […]

The Influence of Export Credit Agencies on International Sales Development

In the evermore-competitive international trade environment that characterizes exporters’ sales, export financing is a key factor for success. Exporters surely want to receive their invoice payment as quickly as possible, whilst importers would rather delay payment until the cargo is received or resold. Being wherewithal to offer appealing payment terms is often required to make […]