The world of Logistics and Shipping has become increasingly global. This means that flows has to be coordinated from and to different continents. Common language in the area of Logistics and Shipping is still the English language, which is full of three-of-more character acronyms, terms and jargon.

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Although demand growth on most of the main headhaul east/west trades continues to be strong, the growth of the cellular fleet in the next 12 months will ensure that the industry continues in its down cycle. Its impact is not expected to be as far reaching as in 2001.

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Doing business in China is an evolving process, as much for Chinese companies as their global counterparts. From the perspective of Western business managers, China still represents compelling lower-cost labor alternatives in the production and assembly areas. But as China?s markets continue to open up to global competition, the potential of the Chinese market itself is driving competition in a number of industry segments.

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The saga of the privatisation of Deutsche Bahn (DB) has moved forward by another few steps over the past two weeks, with some sort of final decision taken by the politicians over the company’s future and an indication of the future strategy for the prospective semi-private company.

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EU has stated that it is investigating possible anti-competitive payments to DHL over the building of its new Express distribution hub at Halle in Germany.

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NT Logistics will start marketing a 730 million euro ($947 million) two-part high-yield bond to help fund its acquisition by private equity fund Apollo Management LP.The deal will be split into 430 million euros of eight-year senior notes, callable after four years, and 300 million euros of 10-year senior subordinated notes, callable after five years.

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As result of the fact that TNT Logistics has been bought by private equity-firm Apollo Management, a change of the trade name has to be part of the deal.

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The German coalition government has agreed to sell up to 49 percent of state-owned rail and logistics giant Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn is the parent company of Schenker and BAX Global. The sale comes after agreeing not to include any of the track in the spin-off, Bloomberg reported. Constitutional rules forbid a sale of more than half the shares in the railway.

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Deutsche Post World Net saw a double-digit increase in revenue and earnings in the third quarter. Consolidated revenue rose by 35 percent from 11.028 billion euros to 14.887 billion euros in the period. The integration of logistics service provider Exel and financial service provider BHW as well as organic growth drove this increase.

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TNT and the State of the Netherlands have reached agreement on the transfer of the Special Share following the ruling by the European Court of Justice on 28 September 2006 that the Special Share contradicts EU law.

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