Selecting the right warehouse management system (WMS) for your unique business is critical to your company’s future success. WMS solutions lacking robust functionality will negatively impact customer relationships and severely limit your ROI.

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The Port of Hamburg Achieves a Record Again in 2006: Cargo Volumes Total Around 135 Million Metric Tons and 8.9 Million Containers (TEUs)

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The battle to buy US freight forwarder EGL has taken a new twist. Private equity company Apollo, which made a counter offer to the consortium led by CEO James Crane, has issued a writ against EGL, claiming that it has not been given adequate access to its books or senior management. At the same time, Apollo increased its offer to $41 a share from $40. This compares with Crane’s offer of $38.

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Kuehne + Nagel has announced its medium-term development plans in contract logistics for the UAE and greater Gulf region. Key to the company’s expansion strategy is its second logistics hub in Dubai, which will go into operation in the course of next year, strategically located in Dubai Logistics City.

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The Rhine river is closed to shipping near Cologne in Germany after an accident involving a container ship over the weekend.

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Secretive shipping and oil conglomerate AP Moller-Maersk has gone on the counter-offensive after the Liberal tax minister, Kristian Jensen, accused it of paying too little in corporate tax. Maersk chose to take the extraordinary step of publicly stating that it paid DKK 9.1 billion in taxes in 2005, including DKK 3.6 billion in corporate tax.

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Dr. Jos Vermunt’s enthusiasm for logistics shows. Throughout a discussion of European logistics developments, his voice rises to emphasize an important point. He says that European logistics is entering a new era of responsiveness and agility.

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Mandates have cooled but adoption continues to boom in some industry segments. Will you have a strategy in place when RFID steps out of the planning stages and into reality in your market?

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Shippers can see significant reductions in their overall freight budgets by doing things like centralizing freight procurement operations, implementing a formal spend management process, and mining transportation and freight spend management data to improve cross-functional business decisions, according to a survey of 380 shippers conducted by Aberdeen Group, the Boston-based research firm.

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Old Dominion’s Chinese partner is Cargo Services Far East Ltd., the country’s largest privately owned integrated logistics provider. With its headquarters based in Hong Kong, Cargo Services currently operates 28 offices throughout the country with an additional 13 to be opened by the end of the year.

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