PressTransportation and logistics · Supply chainAbout Ferragamo
An Italian house publishes deeper country-of-origin visibility for leather — early traceability under a rising EU rule wave.
Transportation and logistics · Supply chainAbout Ferragamo
Ferragamo’s reported origin visibility for most leather is a first mile of traceability — useful, incomplete, and newly newsworthy.
An electric car battery holds lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite that may have crossed several continents and changed hands a dozen times. Until recently, almost nobody could prove where those materials came from, or how much carbon they carried.
Medicines that spoil in transit are usually thrown away, along with the energy, materials and money that went into making them. Often nobody knows a shipment went out of range until it arrives.
Most temperature-sensitive medicines still fly in single-use insulated boxes, which keep the cargo cool for a few days and are then thrown away, often in another country.
Every online order still tends to arrive in a new cardboard box, wrapped in tape and filler, that is used once and thrown away. For valuable goods, the box also gives thieves an easy target.
Much of India's fruit, vegetables, milk and medicine travels without proper cooling, because refrigerated trucks are expensive, scarce and useless during a power cut. A lot of it spoils on the way.
