Logistics

The
chokepoint
economy

Licence to operate is now a moving target for logistics. Red Sea reroutes, Panama restrictions, evolving sanctions and carbon pricing reshape economics week by week. Local politics and NGO campaigns can stall port projects; national policy shifts can flip trade flows. Trade corridors add further complexity, with development influence split across countries, regulators, financiers, operators, and local stakeholders along each route. The common failure point: lack of structured visibility and management of the stakeholders and signals shaping business outcomes.

What's at stake

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Rules matter, with non-tariff measures imposing trade costs 3-4x higher than tariffs

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Reliability is at the gateways: import lead time is the largest driver of variability in international shipping

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The industry is deeply path dependent, with >30% of EBIT at risk from dependent supplier disruptions

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Better stakeholder stewardship is now the key to market access, with spend set to rise 6x - but the problems unsolved

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Secure licence to operate

Map networks of decision-makers and influencers.
Surface and organise the issues that will shift your operating environment.
Track key signals where stakeholders and issues intersect.
Unify your excel trackers to build a networked view of who you know, who you should, and who they know.
Plan and record engagements with a built-in SRM, creating an auditable, living system of record that stays with you as your team evolves.

Be globally situationally aware

Watch the global and local signals that alter access to ports, terminals and routes.
Anticipate corridor & chokepoint disruption by mapping the signals to your lanes, customers, and supply chain.
Receive early-warning alerts tied to the stakeholders who can block or unblock your options.
Brief executives with shareable influence maps and issue dashboards that link your issues to concrete routing and commercial actions.

Accelerate engagement

Build coalition maps for sponsors, regulators, lenders, local government and community leaders; identify swing stakeholders and the conditions they will require.
Simulate hearing dynamics with influence paths to connect stakeholders.
Standardise approvals packs so lessons from one zone, terminal or country transfer cleanly to the next.

Orchestrate year-round in international fora

Map the people who set agendas and text - secretariats, working groups, national delegations, coalitions - and their 2nd/3rd-degree ties.
Leverage curated activation packs ahead of COP/IMO/WCO cycles.
Track evolving positions and language.
Run meetings from your SRM; capture issues, asks, commitments and follow-ups so network effects compound across events and geographies.

Client Success Stories

Managing mine closure community impact and conflict risk

Sites monitored globally

The closures team was responsible for managing the decommissioning of end-of-life assets. This entailed a multi-year journey to ensure positive outcomes for local communities, employees, and investors, while also maintaining ESG compliance.

The team was previously reliant on in-country knowledge, ad hoc RSS feeds and Excel trackers. They needed a more systematic way of monitoring key influencers and managing engagement.

TSC rolled out a dedicated workspace over 3 regions. The workspaces monitors 91 closure sites for co-related policy developments focussing on ~100 regulators impacting the closure cost. Early signal detection, trend analysis and proactive policy engagement enabled the team to manage closure cost and risk, better.

An SRM system for contractor risk and engagement

$61 billion

Asset value safeguarded

A major operator's projects and commercial team was responsible for relationship management, engagement, and media tracking of various contractors working on their offshore assets. This was crucial to ensuring contractors' health and activities posed no risk to assets and timelines.

The teams would follow multiple news sources across different websites, use disconnected Excel sheets to capture engagements, and spend days preparing for executive engagements.

TSC rolled out a dedicated system for contractor intelligence, acting as a single source of truth across 60+ contractors. It acts as a meetings repository, consolidates global coverage into a single feed, offers weekly targeted updates on contractor activity and health, and enables rapid briefing.

Prospecting and market intelligence support in new energy BD

1700+

Opportunities engaged

An active new energy BD team needed a private and secure way to capture strategic engagements and report on them to management. Previously, the team used Excel to capture meetings, but the lists quickly became outdated. There was also no easy way of seeing if cross-regional teams had touched the same prospects.

TSC rolled out a private and secure SRM system for knowledge sharing strategic meetings across regions by centralising all engagement in a single view. Automatic meeting notifications are sent to the email inboxes of team members, so everyone is always in the loop. The system is also used to drive continuous situational awareness and identify opportunities across markets and stakeholders via regular, customisable media briefs, and platform usage.

Frequently asked questions

Can we customise the issues or stakeholder sets we want to track?

Each workspace is unique. It is configured with company context around the issues, actors, and geographies that matter to your team, and the problem you are trying to solve. From permitting regimes to labour risk, the system reflects your actual operating environment.

Is this built for our sector?

TSC maintains a tight sector focus. We know that the asset-intensive, global industries we support require expertise and cohesive focus. Our team is drawn from the industries that we serve. Our AI tools are set up to leverage domain focus and learn as your use case evolves.

Who uses this day-to-day?

Business unit leads use Genie to monitor stakeholder-driven operational risks and track engagement. External, institutional and corporate affairs teams use it to track engagement and monitor stakeholder ecosystems. Strategy leads use it to rapidly build market context and drive always-on situational awareness. Sustainability teams use it to monitor risk themes and ESG exposure. Most customers start with one functional / geographical use case and expand.

How does this scale across our regions or assets?

Each workspace within your ‘organisation’ in Genie is set up to support a mission. We have years of experience helping distributed teams manage complex portfolios, share intelligence and retain context. That’s why we don’t charge by seat - these problems require collaboration.

How do you source your data?

TSC draws from structured public data, open-source media, NGO and regulatory feeds, and issue-specific sources - all filtered through custom models to surface the news most relevant to your problem. We also support custom APIs.

Can this integrate with our internal systems or workflows?

Yes - from email alerting to export formats to structured integrations (e.g. BI), we support practical integration without bloat. We strongly believe integration should never be a blocker to workflow. If you have a need let’s have a conversation.

We have used media monitoring and reputation tools before. What does Genie do differently?

TSC’s media monitoring stack is focused on issues and stakeholders: piercing through the noise to identify them, and link them to one another. We are the gold standard in this space - solving problems for external affairs, sustainability and commercial teams that brand or reputation watch tools just don’t.

How does this compare to the services our consultants and lobbyists provide?

Managing external relations requires a combined-arms approach. Consultants and lobbyists are valuable - but often tactical, episodic, or resource-heavy. Genie provides persistent, issue-aligned visibility across jurisdictions and stakeholders. Many clients reduce spend on low-value advisory work, and are empowered to leverage advisory partners for what they’re really paying them for - strategy, engagements, lobbying and door opening. Our ‘human-in-the-loop’ CS teams also work with consultants looking to equip their teams with better, faster context.

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