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Supply chain software: It’s investment time
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 9:09pm by Paul Denneman
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Considering the challenging domestic transportation environment shippers are facing, compounded by the race to stretch their supply chains around the global, we were hardly surprised to find that respondents to the Logistics Management’s 5th Annual Software Users Survey are realizing operational value in software investment. In turn, shippers report that they’re planning to purchase or [...] -
Supply chain software: It’s investment time
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 9:09pm by Paul Denneman
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Considering the challenging domestic transportation environment shippers are facing, compounded by the race to stretch their supply chains around the global, we were hardly surprised to find that respondents to the Logistics Management’s 5th Annual Software Users Survey are realizing operational value in software investment. In turn, shippers report that they’re planning to purchase or [...] -
Rotterdam builds new containerterminal
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 9:00pm by Paul Denneman
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The Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoR) and terminal operator ECT are constructing the new “Delta Barge Feeder Terminal” (DBF) at Maasvlakte. The terminal is specially designed for handling inland vessels and feeder vessels. -
Rotterdam builds new containerterminal
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 9:00pm by Paul Denneman
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The Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoR) and terminal operator ECT are constructing the new “Delta Barge Feeder Terminal” (DBF) at Maasvlakte. The terminal is specially designed for handling inland vessels and feeder vessels. -
Analysis: Latest drop in US trade threatens global logistics
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 8:55pm by Paul Denneman
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Figures published this week on the growth in the Chinese economy and the related US trade deficit are worth pondering for their implications on the logistics sector worldwide. -
Analysis: Latest drop in US trade threatens global logistics
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 8:55pm by Paul Denneman
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Figures published this week on the growth in the Chinese economy and the related US trade deficit are worth pondering for their implications on the logistics sector worldwide. -
UK logistics provider to undergo major restructuring
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 8:53pm by Paul Denneman
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TDG, the UK based logistics provider, has announced changes in its senior management that appear to indicate issues with its strategy. -
UK logistics provider to undergo major restructuring
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 8:53pm by Paul Denneman
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TDG, the UK based logistics provider, has announced changes in its senior management that appear to indicate issues with its strategy. -
Contract logistics jump drives K+N growth
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 8:31pm by Paul Denneman
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Global logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel has continued to deliver good results. In the first quarter of 2007 turnover increased by 13.5 per cent to CHF 4,869.5 million (€2,967m) and profits (EBITDA) improved by 15.4 per cent to CHF 229.8 million (€140m). -
Contract logistics jump drives K+N growth
Posted: April 24th, 2007, 8:31pm by Paul Denneman
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Global logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel has continued to deliver good results. In the first quarter of 2007 turnover increased by 13.5 per cent to CHF 4,869.5 million (€2,967m) and profits (EBITDA) improved by 15.4 per cent to CHF 229.8 million (€140m). -
Top ten Supply Chain Innovations
Posted: April 20th, 2007, 11:20am by Paul Denneman
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For supply chains to keep pace with an increasingly complex global market, innovation is essential. Professor Sheffi from MIT presented at the Supply Chain Conference “Crossroads 2007″ in Zaragoza his top ten of supply chain innovations -
Kodak patented eatable RFID tag
Posted: April 13th, 2007, 11:29am by Paul Denneman
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KODAK recently filed a patent for a digestible radio frequency identification tag, which would monitor the ingestion of medicine, but Kodak won’t divulge its commercial intentions. -
Recharging RFID: An Interview with Bill Hardgrave
Posted: April 13th, 2007, 11:25am by Paul Denneman
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Three years ago when Wal-Mart announced its famous supplier “mandate,” the business press was buzzing with stories of RFID (radio frequency identification). But after that initial surge of attention, which lasted about a year, the buzz seemed to die down. Companies began to step back and say, in effect, “Hey, what’s in this thing for [...] -
It is time to put Global Trade Management (GTM) on your wish list
Posted: April 13th, 2007, 11:22am by Paul Denneman
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The developments in the Customs and Indirect Tax areas are moving rapidly. Especially within the European Union (EU) there are a lot of developments in the Customs area which are poised to harmonize customs handling processes across the whole EU region. -
Transportation management systems (TMS) step out of the shadows
Posted: April 13th, 2007, 11:14am by Paul Denneman
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Some call it the weakest link in the supply chain, while others see it as an opportunity to save money and work smarter, better, and faster. Either way you look at it, transportation management has come to the forefront for shippers that are looking for more efficiencies, and it has pulled the Transportation Management Systems [...] -
Japan logistics market undergoing ’structural transformation’
Posted: April 13th, 2007, 11:09am by Paul Denneman
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ProLogis has released a new report on the state of the logistics property markets in Japan. The report, entitled “Japan’s Logistics Property Markets - Drive to Efficiency,” explores the transformation of Japanese industrial real estate over the past six years. -
Kerry expands into Eastern Europe
Posted: April 13th, 2007, 11:03am by Paul Denneman
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Kerry Logistics - the international logistics provider - is expanding into Eastern Europe. It has founded a national company and opened its first branch in the new EU member states in the Czech Republic’s second-largest city, Brno . -
China Shipping’s profits tumble
Posted: April 13th, 2007, 11:01am by Paul Denneman
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China shipping Container Liners Co., Ltd (CSCL) announced the 2006 Annual results. For the period, CSCL recorded a turnover of RMB30,502,378,000, achieving an increase of 7.5% as compared with the same period last year. However, because of the rising of fuel price ,the falling of freight rates in main trade lanes , and RMB [...] -
TI-report: Trends in the Global Freight Forwarding Industry
Posted: April 13th, 2007, 10:58am by Paul Denneman
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The freight forwarding market has been a major beneficiary of an increasingly globalised world economy. The development of extended supply chains, integrating manufacturers, suppliers and retailers on a worldwide basis, has led to significant year-on-year growth in international trade volumes. Freight forwarders revenues - and profits - have surged and this has resulted in structural [...] -
ARC report examines the “next big thing in logistics”
Posted: April 10th, 2007, 5:13pm by Paul Denneman
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“Big things” don’t occur overnight in the logistics industry. Since so many different parties are involved in the movement of goods, across so many countries, it often takes a lot of time to get everybody’s buy-in. But once everybody agrees on a standard, whether for a physical object like a shipping container or [...] -
Severe set back for Maersk as results disappoint
Posted: April 10th, 2007, 3:15pm by Paul Denneman
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The annual results for global shipping giant Maersk signal a severe set back to the company’s strategy in container shipping. Although the wider A.P. Moller Group had higher overall profits at US$6.048bn, the Maersk container shipping division, which is the group’s largest business, suffered a loss. -
Maersk slips into the slow lane with higher profits on the horizon
Posted: April 10th, 2007, 3:14pm by Paul Denneman
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MAERSK Line, the world’s largest container carrier, will grow more slowly than the wider container shipping market this year after AP Moller-Maersk, its parent, decided it should focus on profitability rather than market share. Copenhagen-based AP Moller-Maersk announced the changed strategy following record pre-tax profits of $US6.05 billion, up from $US5.54 billion in 2005, on [...] -
Bumper profits for Schenker promise IPO in 2008
Posted: April 10th, 2007, 11:19am by Paul Denneman
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Deutsche Bahn (DB) has been the latest big logistics service provider to announce bumper profits and big increases in revenue. The headline figures announced by the CEO, Hartmut Mehdorn, were strong with a 20% increase in revenue to €30bn and an EBIT up by €1bn to €2.5bn, but the figures for DB’s logistics business seem [...]