Business Continuity

Africa’s Changing Resilience Picture

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Many African nations took a very proactive approach to COVID in an attempt to mitigate the effect on their fragile health systems; however, from a purely economic perspective, prolonged lockdown and quarantine will have a significant effect. Businesses that routinely trade with Africa need to be assured that partners or suppliers are suitably resilient but may also need support if they are to stay afloat at all. Inverroy’s Africa Lead, Toby Ingram considers these issues and looks at Business Continuity and Resilience from a global perspective.

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Ongoing Challenges for the Chemical Industry

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Chemicals have two defining characteristics: they are central to the modern world, and they are hugely dangerous in the event of an accident.

An initial report by Reuters states that a potential “chemical accident” triggered the explosion at the Industrias Químicas del Óxido de Etileno plant happened in La Canonja municipality. This incident consumed local emergency, aviation and train services and caused the closure of vital routes in and out of the region.

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Spanning the link – Is your supply chain prepared for disruption?

Business Continuity, Resilience / Team Inverroy

On Sunday, 6 October, Scotland’s busiest ferry route between Ardrossan and Brodick was rendered inoperative as a result of the failure of both linkspans at Ardrossan harbour. A swift response by Calmac looked like it was taken straight from the Business Continuity textbooks …

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Drones: has technology changed the security landscape again?

Business Continuity, High Risk Industries, Resilience / Team Inverroy

Can the richest and most influential economies on the planet, can have infrastructure which is critical to them (and arguably the rest of the world) threatened by technology that you can buy in a model shop for under £1000?

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Future Mistakes? or Future Missed Steaks? 11 indications of change on the food front.

Business Continuity, Food and Drink / Team Inverroy

We may soon be looking at a situation where demand for meat-from-livestock is reducing, and large-scale meat production becomes unsustainable, both practically and environmentally. What can we do about it?

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Inverroy Crisis Management Announce New Chairman As Part of Growth Plans

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Oil and Gas business continuity specialists, Inverroy, welcome G2G3 founder, Andrew Speake, in the role of Chairman as part of expansion plans for the company.

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