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The International Compliance Association (ICA) is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community. It has short-listed Acquarius for a 2024 Team of the Year Award.
COO and Head of Compliance, Gareth Cross, comments that this prestigious industry body’s recognition is a tribute to Acquarius in general and especially to its compliance team, led by Andrew Skillicorn.

If you are a parent or guardian of a teen who is considering joining a summer program with The Road Less Traveled, you might understandably wonder whether your child is the kind of person who would thrive on one of our summer trips. After all, you will want to be sure that your child will fit in well with their fellow travelers during their time away from home.

Red Sea crisis drives up rates, as some shippers look to air freight
Our team at KTL has continued to closely monitor the situation in the Red Sea since our previous update. Events have been fast-moving, although it has still been the case over the last few weeks that vessels making their way through the area have been subject to attacks from Yemen-based Houthi militants.

As those who have previously joined our leaders on one of our popular teen summer programs will already be aware, there are few things as powerful as meaningful and purposeful travel for opening up a young person’s world. When it comes to helping your teen to build their self-confidence, independence, leadership, resilience, and sense of community and service, our teen summer programs are the best around!

The biannual trade show London Fashion Week (LFW) is typically an exciting showcase for luxury brands’ latest wares. However, many journalists, influencers, buyers and other movers and shakers invited to LFW’s February outing could have reasonably expected it to feel somewhat subdued.
After all, long shadows have been cast over prestige goods purveyors in recent weeks and months. Although the long-awaited end of the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a flurry of spending on high-end clothes, accessories and jewellery, a recent rise in inflation has decelerated this renaissance.

What types of vehicles are typically used for road freight?
When it comes to arranging the movement of goods from one location to another, it is extremely difficult to deny the importance of freight by road.
After all, if you are looking to organise the transportation of goods almost anywhere – including if the given journey will be largely taking place by other means, such as via the sea or air– you can expect transportation by road to account for at least a portion of the trip.

So, you know all about the potential benefits of participation in travel programs for teens, including the opportunity for cultural immersion, developing personal skills, new friendships, exploring new countries, and contributing to meaningful service projects.
But as a parent, it can be much harder to find “the best teen travel program for your child” and you might be a lot less sure about what you should be looking for in a good travel program.

The number of public chargepoints that electric vehicle (EV) drivers in the UK can make use of is now more than 50,000, the Department for Transport (DfT) has said.
The UK Government said that the reaching of the “key milestone” would assist with the country’s transition to EVs, adding that the UK was “on target” to install 300,000 public EV chargepoints by the end of this decade.
“Another step on the road to zero emission driving”

As of the time of typing, we are now heading firmly into the winter, which might have caused your mind to look more seriously at planning a ski break – alongside, of course, arranging that crucial ski boot fitting session.
Now, you might imagine that here at Ski Exchange, we won’t exactly be great enthusiasts of the notion of you doing your ski boot fitting on a ‘DIY’ basis. After all, we do take great pride in offering one of the leading ski boot fitting services in the world.

There is surely no better way to welcome in a new, brighter season than by undergoing a thorough cleaning and tidying process at your home or business premises. But does spring cleaning always make you feel overwhelmed? Perhaps you are not sure what to do with all the bits and bobs you will have to discard or store away?

If so, don’t fear! With a little bit of our hamper craft filling tissue from our online shop here at Shredded-Paper.co.uk, cleaning up your residential property or business site and having a good declutter can become much easier.