We have been talking about the global supply chain for at least a decade. Ten years ago we didn’t really know what it would look like but now we know more. Even though we are only in the very beginning of the age we are entering, the world of globalization. It is an exciting new universe we are about to enter and we know very little about it. Already today we move goods in totally different ways, according to other trade patterns and with much higher speed and predictability than ever before. And this is just the warm-up. We are starting to see the new global supply chain. We are learning through academic studies like the EU Cassandra project and many other similar academic research studies, how the global supply chain function and how it evolves over time. We see new global value chains in almost every sector, where goods for different reasons are manufactured in many places, assembled in many places – and moved back and forward around the world before ending up in global markets and later our stores. I am in personally involved in three different projects – in different parts of the world – that is about designing and testing new superhighways entirely changing the way we operate today in Customs and Trade. This is not science fiction, but already existing. An artist called James Herbin once said that, ‘the future is so bright that I gotta where shades’. I genuinely believe that we the next ten years will totally re-design the way we do business. The next time period will give us more changes and opportunities for change – than the last hundred years did.
Are you ready for the future? I am. Let it come.
I saw him play the first time when he was only 12 years old. I saw his first game for the first team of Malmö FF. I have watch live games that he had played in Amsterdam for Ajax, in Torino for Juve, in Milan for AC, in Barcelona and for PSG in Paris. I follow all his games on TV. National team, national league, cups, Champions League, friendly games. I read his book many times. I read all articles about him in international media, I watch the press conferences and the YouTube movies about his skills and goals. I even wear his perfume brand. Am I totally crazy? No, not at all. I just love the sport, the game, the player, the character and the person. He is Zlatan Ibrahimović. For me he is the best player in the world ever and I am grateful to have lived during his career to see him play.
I have visited 164 countries to date. I have worked with international missions for twenty years now. I have seen the world from airplane and airports. I love travelling. Going to new places, meeting new people. It is all about learning. Life is learning process. At least for me. So I travel. I know that I have travelled around the world many times already and I have spent more time in airports than I want to. The only really hard thing about international work is that you are away from home. Having said that, the journeys I have done have taken me to places I never thought I would see. When I was a kid in small village in the South of Sweden we almost never travelled anywhere. Now I have seen all of the world. That is probably the longest journey I have done. I will continue to travel until the day that I die. The world is a beautiful place. On this blog I will give you my insights to travelling, airplanes, airports, countries. So if you want to travel with me – stay tuned and read this blog. I will share my experience of travelling here and only here.