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.

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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 .

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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 appreciation, profit after taxation for the profit attributable to equity holders decreased by 76.0% as compared with the same period last year to RMB859,210,000 Basic earnings per share amounted to RMB0.14, representing a decline of 76.3% as compared with the same period in 2005.

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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 changes to what for many years was a conservative and stable industry.

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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 an electronic document like a manifest, the benefits are substantial and far-reaching”, according to a recent report by Adrian Gonzalez, director of the Logistics Executive Council at ARC Advisory Group.

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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.

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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 revenues of $US44.5 billion for 2006.

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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 even stronger.

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