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Roanoke Insurance Group is delighted to once again sponsor a $5,000 scholarship to students intending to join the trade industry. The National Customs Broker and Forwarder Association of America (NCBFAA) offers this $5,000 scholarship award yearly and will be presented to the winner at the NCBFAA annual conference in April 2023. The topic for this year’s scholarship will be “U.S. Trade Embargoes – Are They Effective Tools to Promote Change?” This $5,000 Scholarship Award is available to any employee (or an employee’s child) of an NCBFAA Regular member. High school seniors or undergraduate students at an accredited college or university, […]
Increased Prices of Fuel, Agricultural Products, and Other Goods are Leading to Increased Theft In partnership with Roanoke, BSI’s Global Intelligence Analysts have provided a high-level outlook on the top supply chain risks expected in upcoming months, based on data and trends from the first three quarters of 2022. BSI’s data shows that thieves globally are increasingly targeting agricultural products, employee belongings, and automotive parts. This is partially due to increased food insecurity worldwide, and inflation driving up the prices of goods like agricultural products and fuel. The combination of these two factors makes these goods more lucrative to steal. […]
Arguably no phrase has dominated the tech world the last 24 months more than the term “data breach.” From breaches that have impacted critical infrastructure like the Colonial Pipeline to ransomware attacks on CMA and CGM, the last two years have been saturated by headlines of cybersecurity mishaps. Yet, despite the prevalence of the breach-centric news cycle, many people may not know what exactly data breaches are, how they typically start, and why they occur. According to IBM, the average time it takes to identify that a breach has occurred is 287 days, with the average time to contain a […]
On the open sea cargo losses happen. Every year, 100s of millions of cargo containers carrying goods valued into the trillions of dollars crisscross the ocean on ships. Transporting these goods safely requires proper packing, stowage, container weight, and securing of containers, but even when all these measures are carried out to perfection, containers get lost at sea. Severe weather and rough seas along with rare events such as ship groundings, structural failures, and collisions can cause significant losses. 2021 World Shipping Council “Containers Lost at Sea” Report The WSC in its report noted an usually high number of weather-related […]
As featured in Forward Magazine At the AirCargo 2022 conference, a question was posed to the audience: Who has cyber insurance? Only 20% of the audience raised their hands! This is concerning because cyber-related crime is at an all-time high and still growing fast. The current data around cybercrime is alarming. By April of 2021, cyberattacks against the supply chain had risen an estimated 42% in the U.S. according to research by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). If you’re in the logistics industry, you’ll want to read this article, featured recently in Forward Magazine: “How Vulnerable is Your Company […]
Glenn Patton, Managing Director – Canada and Patrice Lafayette, Vice President at Roanoke along with Pat Fosberry, Director of Export Compliance at John S. James Co. and Cameron Roberts, Partner at Roberts & Kehagiaras LLP participated recently in a risk management panel at the NCBFAA Annual Conference. The session was aptly titled “One Thing After Another” and focused on, international shipping concerns, cyber-attacks, bond insufficiencies, CBP deadlines and suggestions for mitigating your risk as a logistics service provider. Below is a recording of the discussion. There are a multitude of strategies, tools and insurance products that can help you protect […]
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