Digital trade in time-sensitive & perishable supply chains (Metaship)

Join us online to explore how digital trade boosts speed and efficiency in perishable goods shipping.

Bruce Trebble (Metaship) will be leading this practical session focused on digital trade in time-sensitive supply chains, exploring how businesses can:

• reduce delays and friction when moving fresh or fast-moving goods
• improve visibility across the full supply chain
• streamline documentation, compliance and border processes
• reduce the risk of errors, delays and spoilage

The content is grounded in real-world experience across import, export, clearance and trade operations.

If your business handles goods where time, condition and compliance are critical, this session focuses on the operational challenges that create cost and risk. You will gain practical insight into where delays and inefficiencies typically occur, how better data and processes can reduce disruption and what a more consistent, reliable export process looks like in practice.

About the speaker

Bruce Trebble is the CEO of Metaship Limited, a company focusing on digital trade, technology, and supply chain solutions based in the UK.

About the Digital Trade Testbed

This session forms part of the Teesside Digital Trade Testbed Project, a real-world environment at Teesside International Airport where businesses can explore, test and improve how they trade internationally. It provides the opportunity to see what better; more efficient trade processes look like in practice and how they can work across real supply chains.

Digital Trade Accelerator

The Digital Trade Accelerator forms part of the digitalisation of export efforts by helping businesses apply these improvements to their own operations. Through one-to-one support and diagnostics, businesses can review their current export processes, identify where time, cost and risk build up and make practical changes to documentation, workflows and compliance. It is designed to reduce admin, avoid common errors and create a more consistent, repeatable approach to exporting.