UK – WORLDWIDE – There were howls of complaint from many onlookers when Sir Richard Branson put a call in for government support to save his Virgin Atlantic airline in the wake of the Covid-19 disaster which has impacted the industry so hard. Now it seems he has found the resources to finance the company without state aid. UK – We have covered the multiple uses to which shipping containers have been put over the years on several occasions. From luxury houses and boutique hotels to aquaria and kids sports facilities, plus of course the famous pop up Pen Tavern which toured the logistics exhibition scene for container group Pentalver. UK – Logistics groups of every hue reacted rapidly to the latest UK government plans for the proposed Border Operating Model that will take effect from the end of the Transition Period. The reaction was largely a metaphorical pat on the head rather than a slap on the back. When a freight trade organisation says it is ' keeping its fingers crossed' that hardly shouts inspired confidence. WORLDWIDE – The Baltic Exchange, in collaboration with Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, has published the 2020 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development (ISCD) Index. The index, in its seventh edition, provides an independent ranking of the performance of the world's largest cities that offer port and shipping business services. UK – Trade Minister Liz Truss is not the only one concerned about the country's preparedness for Brexit. After months of doubts from the likes of the British International Freight Association (BIFA) and the United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA), the Road Haulage Association (RHA) has supported the assorted worries of the freight forwarding lobby group, and criticism of tardiness from the trade storage body, to add the argument of the delivery segment to the complainants. UK – US – Before she managed to grab the headlines at the weekend when a letter she had written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Cabinet Minister Michael Gove regarding the unsuitability of the country's post Brexit border plans was somehow leaked to the press, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss was in Southampton backing one of the country's most luxurious of exports. WORLDWIDE – UK – Global maritime charity Sailors’ Society has announced the appointment of Sara Baade as its new Chief Executive Officer, starting in September. Baade has a strong background in management and strategic policy and brings extensive experience in leading an international welfare charity from her current role as CEO of The Army Families Federation. UK – Despite Covid-19 throwing a metaphorical spanner in the works when work got underway in February, Mumbai headquartered Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has managed to deploy its state-of-the-art terminal operating system at Tilbury2's RoRo facility using virtual technology to complete the project despite the lockdown. UK – WORLDWIDE – There was a chorus of support from shipping industry stakeholders for the International Maritime Summit hosted by the UK government yesterday. Representatives from over a dozen countries including Norway, Denmark, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Philippines and the US attended and agreed to grant enhanced rights as key workers to seafarers. WORLDWIDE – For the last decade or so the World Shipping Council (WSC) has taken a keen interest in the number of containers lost at sea, and since 2011 has surveyed its members annually to try and get a grip on the figures. What this has evidenced is that, despite peaks and troughs dependent on the number of serious maritime accidents, the percentage of boxes lost overboard represent a tiny fraction of those carried. 
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