Inspection Booking and Management case study in Shanghai and London in 2020 affecting world wide by COVID 19

Inspection Booking and Management case study in Shanghai and London in 2020. Starting from beginning 2020, COVID 19 has been spread world wild whatever you are in asia, america or europe region.

Before containers loading in our commonly used forwarders, the resumed factories in China (shenzhen , guangzhou, suzhou, etc) has completed most of the order line production before end of May. Then for QA/QC in-house policy, oversea inspectors will sent to the local factories by May before the packing list shipment finish. The inline inspection / 1st inspection / 2nd re-inspection / final inspection and in-batch inspection need to be completed ASAP base on the merchandiser purchase order in order to meet the inspection deadline. Factories are still preparing the test report, seal sample and QC tech file as soon as the inspectors come.

Please contact us for the latest updates / ask for quotation for inspection booking with order management system or schedule a demo at http://www.ic.com.hk/contact-us/

ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL ACTION PLAN (updated)

Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Impacts and Issues
Submit an environmental and social report to the EBRD on the environmental and social performance of the Project and the status of the implementation of this ESAP. Extend (and maintain for existing operations), and where necessary update and revise, the existing environmental and health and safety management system and associated procedures and provisions to the Project, including its construction, commissioning, operation and decommissioning.  Appropriate management of environmental and social issues through implementation of a formal management system. Develop the existing framework environmental and social management and monitoring plans in the Project ESIA into fully detailed plans and integrate them into the EHS management system. Management and monitoring of environmental and social issues through implementation of appropriate management and monitoring plans.

Rebuild global supply chain resilience after COVID-19 in China

As the number of COVID-19 cases in China falls, it is also recovering from the effects on industry. Companies have been exploring creative ways to restart global supply chains. More work is needed to ensure long-term resilience. China seems to be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of fighting the COVID-19.

coronavirus covid 19 impact e-commerce business

The corona virus is spreading around the world rapidly in past months. Countries and cities has been lock-down and there is delay or even suspension for stock delivery. However, online sales expected to have over 50 % growth due to the change of shopping habit. Health product is one of the major category in the growth. Establishing online sales with online payment, logistics configuration become the hot topic since the start of 2020.

Please contact us for the latest updates / ask for quotation for online shop e-commerce setup or schedule a demo at http://www.ic.com.hk/contact-us/

Online Booking Forwarders / Containers after factories resumed. Shipping from Shanghai to London under COVID 19 working remotely from home

After Shanghai and factories locked down in very short period of time, the order from UK is now ready to ship. Meanwhile, most companies in UK, Hong Kong and Shanghai are serving only limited time weekly. Same as other companies in Hong Kong, UK and China, the ERP product life-cycle order management system is control most of the trouble tasks remotely.

From the initial stage customer purchase order from UK, to suppliers manufacturing in factories and completed the production. Then online inspection booking and product inspection completed. Then shipment forwarder online booking. All these steps can be finished at home working days under COVID 19 working remotely from home.

Mass inspection booking online for rebooting China factories after covid 19

After 2020 Chinese new year and Covid-19,  most factories in China has been rebooting for oversea orders. Inspection booking is in extremely full and busy situation after manfunctioning process before put into containers of shipment.

With the PRO-QUALI Creating new factory audit booking on our very secured platform from suppliers or factories to place online bookings via e-form online booking.  PRO-QUALI is online tool for inspection and auditing booking.

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PRO-QUALI is online tool for inspection and auditing booking

PRO-QUALI is online tool for inspection and auditing booking. Creating new factory audit booking on our very secured platform from suppliers or factories to place online bookings via e-form online booking. The booking system automated all the scheduled inspector travel schedule across different countries.

How inspectors in Shanghai, Hong Kong HK travel to factory with instant PO (Factory Order/Purchase Order) under wuhan coronavirus

Under the wuhan coronavirus attack, our in-house inspectors / third party inspectors have difficulties to visit factories in Shenzhen and suzhou for product inspection jobs before shipment/packing list to UK even scheduled job inspection in ERP system. Factories are supposed to resume after Chinese new year and the manufacturing process will be completed in coming months.

2020 ESG GUIDE CONSULTATION CONCLUSIONS

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), today (Wednesday) published conclusions to its consultation on the ‘Review of the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reporting Guide (ESG Guide) and Related Listing Rules’ (ESG Consultation Conclusions)1; and the findings of its latest review of listed issuers’ ESG disclosures (ESG Disclosure Review).

“We had a very broad and strongly supportive response to this consultation, and we are pleased to be announcing significant improvements to the ESG governance and disclosure framework for Hong Kong-listed companies.  The changes reflect the Exchange’s commitment to enhancing Hong Kong’s ESG regulatory framework and to meeting investor and stakeholder expectations in accordance with international best practices.  We would like to thank all those who made submissions to the consultation,” said David Graham, HKEX’s Head of Listing.

ESG Consultation Conclusions

The Exchange received 153 responses from a broad range of respondents.  The feedback indicated strong support for the consultation proposals to enhance the ESG reporting framework.  The Exchange will implement the consultation proposals, with modifications, reflecting comments received.  The changes will be effective for financial years commencing on or after 1 July 2020.

Key changes to the ESG Guide and related Listing Rules include:

Introducing mandatory disclosure requirements to include:
a board statement setting out the board’s consideration of ESG matters;
application of Reporting Principles “materiality”, “quantitative” and “consistency”; and
explanation of reporting boundaries of ESG reports;
Requiring disclosure of significant climate-related issues which have impacted and may impact the issuer;
Amending the “Environmental” key performance indicators (KPIs) to require disclosure of relevant targets;
Upgrading the disclosure obligation of all “Social” KPIs to “comply or explain”; and
Shortening the deadline for publication of ESG reports to within five months after the financial year-end.

More information: https://www.hkex.com.hk/News/News-Release/2019/191218news?sc_lang=en

Work from home WFH under Coronavirus in Hong Kong HK, Shanghai, Beijing and UK

Due to the coronavirus outbreak in wuhan city, after Chinese New Year in Shanghai, the people of buying office of UK-based huge online retailer in Shanghai started their "working from home" (WFH) for a week with the Order Management System and ERP System. They are all working from home and communicate with resumed factories and UK head office and Hong Kong/Beijing local office. While there is new order requested from UK day-to-day with variety of products, the data-powered "Vendor / Customer / Inspector Companies" modules and  "Merchandising Products Master Database" modules save their workload tracking the back-order.

More information from http://www.pro-quali.com/features/general-feature-list/

Sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions alarming levels in Wuhan?

High sulphur dioxide levels at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak could be a sign of mass cremations, it has been claimed.

Satellite maps in recent days have shown alarming levels of SO2 around Wuhan, the Chinese city where the outbreak began.

In addition, there were high sulphur dioxide levels in the city of Chongqing which is also under quarantine.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7986553/Does-satellite-image-scale-Chinas-coronavirus-cremations.html

Cities are set to miss 80% of their 2020 emission reduction goals

 Most cities that disclosed emissions reductions targets to CDP did not have goals for as early as 2020. Seventy percent of the more than 608 individual targets that cities self-reported in 2019 cite deadlines further in the future. Over 800 cities disclose some amount of data to the organization.

Source: https://qz.com/1760352/cities-are-set-to-miss-80-percent-of-their-2020-emission-reduction-goals/

Sulphur 2020 – cutting sulphur oxide emissions

The main type of “bunker” oil for ships is heavy fuel oil, derived as a residue from crude oil distillation. Crude oil contains sulphur which, following combustion in the engine, ends up in ship emissions. Sulphur oxides (SOx) are known to be harmful to human health, causing respiratory symptoms and lung disease. In the atmosphere, SOx can lead to acid rain, which can harm crops, forests and aquatic species, and contributes to the acidification of the oceans.

Limiting SOx emissions from ships will improve air quality and protects the environment.

IMO regulations to reduce sulphur oxides (SOx) emissions from ships first came into force in 2005, under Annex VI of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (known as the MARPOL Convention). Since then, the limits on sulphur oxides have been progressively tightened.

From 1 January 2020, the limit for sulphur in fuel oil used on board ships operating outside designated emission control areas will be reduced to 0.50% m/m (mass by mass). This will significantly reduce the amount of sulphur oxides emanating from ships and should have major health and environmental benefits for the world, particularly for populations living close to ports and coasts.

Below you will find answers to some of the frequently asked questions about the sulphur limit.

Source: http://www.imo.org/en/mediacentre/hottopics/pages/sulphur-2020.aspx