ARL Consulting releases planning tool for marine terminals keeping track of multiple resources on shore- and sea side depending on vessels ETA/ETD be it terminal facilities, equipment, people or event-driven resources.

A report from the Financial Times Deutschland published yesterday stated that Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN), the parent company of express services and logistics services provider DHL, is contemplating selling DHL’s Express operations in the United States by the end of May as part of a wider turnaround plan that could be announced.

Revenues improved 6.1% driven by double-digit increases in international export volumes, growth, and firm pricing in the US package business, and gains at UPS Freight.

Regional subsidiaries of less-than-truckload transportation and global logistics services provider YRC Worldwide Inc. (YRCW) will cease operations at 27 service centers that will result in charges of $30 million, according to a Reuters news report. This news comes on the heels of YRCW’s investor meeting, which was held in New York last month, when it [...]

French logistics group Geodis, one of the largest road freight operators in Europe, has given an early indication as to the state of the European freight industry in 2007 and prospects for 2008.

Temasek, the sovereign wealth fund, and Germany’s Tui are in talks to merge their shipping operations in a deal that could see the Singaporean group take a stake of more than 20 per cent in the Hanover-based travel group.

A new research study, “The 2008 State of the Market in Supply Chain Finance,” benchmarks the trends in supply chain finance (SCF) over the past 15 months and shows that there has been a slight increase in practical activity in SCF compared to 2006. The report, announced by Aberdeen notes that despite the general awareness [...]

Global supply chains faced their fair share of new and existing challenges in 2007. While improving both cost efficiencies and customer-service levels remained top of mind for supply chain executives, they are now chartered with enabling new business priorities, such as support for growth through more rapid innovation, increased flexibility to respond to demand variations, [...]

In order to return to profitability, A.P. Moller - Maersk is focusing on being competitive and cost effective. The process also encompasses our Technical Organisation responsible for crewing on Danish vessels and our findings show that Maersk need to make some significant changes relating to the shipboard operation and the cost of operating under Danish [...]

Maersk Line, the container shipping division of the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, announces the details of its new strategy to drive the turnaround of the business and return to sustainable profitability. The global organisation to be reduced by 2,000 to 3,000 positions.

The song, “Auld Lang Syne,” is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year. At least partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700’s, it was first published in 1796 after Burns’ death. Early variations of the song were sung prior to 1700 [...]

In today’s turbulent global economy, manufacturers seeking the refuge of offshore markets to trim labor costs are severely underestimating the requirements for the ongoing management of their outsourced processes. Anyone who doubts this assertion need only look as far as the 2007 headlines about Mattel and other U.S. companies that were bitten by defects in [...]

Is Africa the growth engine of the 21st Century? Many analysts and companies, including IBM, think so.

Manufacturers are always looking for a way to lower costs, and right now, with the trucking industry caught in a slump, 2008 should see some of the lowest pricing for transportation since the recession at the start of this century.

Recent reports tout increases in RFID equipment sales and Wi-Fi real-time location systems. This growth is echoed by our clients at the Emerging Technology Center in Orlando. More and more, company technology leaders are inquiring about real-time tracking of inventory via RFID. However, these inquiries demonstrate market confusion between the capabilities of EPC Gen 2 [...]

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