Shipping, International Trade and Logistics ESG and Shipping: Navigating Towards A Sustainable Maritime Industry While Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) may not be on every shipping company board’s agenda, this is likely to change very soon. Maritime transport represents a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for about 3% of global GHG emissions annually.[1]… Read More » 18 November 2022
Regulatory & Compliance US – China Geopolitics: What It Means For Your Supply Chain? Recent years have seen growing tensions in the trade relations between the U.S. and China. Read More » 17 November 2022
Regulatory & Compliance Singapore Introduces New Bill to Purge Harmful Content: What It Means for Social Platforms? Singapore has introduced a new bill called the Online Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, which aims to hold online content and communication platforms accountable for egregious or harmful content disseminated to users in Singapore. To be added to the existing Broadcasting Act, which regulates the dealings, operation of and ownership in broadcasting services in Singapore, the measures aim to: Provide a safe online environment for Singapore users; promote responsible online behaviour; deter objectionable online activity; prevent access to harmful content; and place priority on the protection of Singapore users, in particular young children.… Read More » 27 October 2022
Corporate New Code of Practice Setting Out Top Management’s Workplace Safety and Health Responsibilities The Ministry of Manpower has recently launched a workplace safety code of practice for company management (the “Code of Practice”). The Code of Practice is targeted at the top management of the company (i.e. the chief executive and company directors) as they have the influence and control over budgets, priorities and training for workplace safety and health.… Read More » 30 September 2022
Conveyancing & Real Estate Building A Climate Change Resilient Supply Chain: The Time Is Now Climate change will present ongoing challenges for global supply chains in the future, even as pandemic-related bottlenecks ease. It promises more unpredictable natural disasters which have potentially catastrophic consequences on global supply chains. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), created in 2015 by Switzerland’s Financial Stability Board (FSB) has developed a framework for companies to disclose investor grade climate-related financial information.… Read More » 15 September 2022
Transforming Your Supply Chain – Legal Considerations In A New Era Over the past 24 months, businesses in Southeast Asia, a region that has a passing through of US$3.4 trillion worth of trade annually, have been forced to focus on and reassess their global supply chains. These businesses are on a journey of transforming their supply chains, to mitigate and de-risk their businesses, and are doing so by redirecting their supply chains and production facilities closer to home.… Read More » 13 July 2022
The Russia – Ukraine Conflict: How To Manage Your Risks? The Russia – Ukraine conflict has dealt another blow to a sector that had already been suffering significant volatility due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Vessels have been attacked and held hostage, sanctions on Russia have halted business dealings and the act of trying to extract Russian entities from global supply chains have proved challenging.… Read More » 25 April 2022
Sanctions on Russia: Measures That Singapore Businesses Should Adopt Law Bites – April 2022 It has been several months since sanctions were imposed against Russia. At this point, many companies find themselves having to deal with the disruptions caused to their supply chain and are assessing the impact of the sanctions on their customers and contractual obligations.… Read More » 19 April 2022
Sanctioning Russia, What It Means For Singapore Firms? Law Bites – March 2022 Singapore imposed sanctions against Russia unilaterally notwithstanding the absence of any binding UN Security Council decision. The last time Singapore acted on its own in imposing sanctions was in 1978, when Vietnam invaded Cambodia. We wrote a Newsflash on this when the global sanctions against Russia were rolled out.… Read More » 14 March 2022
Sanctions Imposed on Russia Newsflash – March 2022 News on the situation in Ukraine are dominating the headlines worldwide. Sanctions have been imposed on Russia by mainly the EU, UK and the US as a sign of disapproval and to advance the goal of conflict resolution.… Read More » 3 March 2022