The responsibilities within the Board of Directors of A.P Moller Maersk will changes dramaticly. Three “old boys” CEO’s Jess Søderberg and Knud E. Stubkjær as well as Maerk Line’s Tommy Thomsen will step down and leave the company. The continuing CEO will be Eivind Kolding. It seems that the changes are the result of the bad finanacial performance of Mearsk Line after the P&O Nedlloyd integration.

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A study by Boston Consulting Group confirms the necessity of the scope of the reorganization plans recently announced by TNT Post. The study was executed at the request of the trade unions and Operations Works Council at TNT Post.

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Container and bulk trains begin operations MondayJune 11th on a new 100-mile rail corridor linking the Port of Rotterdam with the German rail network.

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Companies across a broad spectrum of manufacturing, distribution, and retail segments are striving to be more demand driven. The demand-driven strategy of allowing actual demand to pull inventory through the company and its supply chain seems simple. However for those using traditional supply chain management practices, other corporate strategies - along with some outside forces - make it a challenge to create a truly demand-driven supply and distribution network.

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Recent research by Aberdeen reveals that the top priorities for global trade management (GTM) in 2007 are improving trade compliance and global supply chain visibility in an attempt to more effectively manage growing global operations and distribution networks. This was the general consensus of the 200 survey respondents.

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In 2006, rail increased its share in container transport to and from the Port of Rotterdam by more than 20%, improving its position with respect to the modal split from 9 to 11%. Road haulage accounted for 59% (2005: 60%) and inland shipping remained unchanged at just over 30%.

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The impact of piracy on deep sea shipping has been addressed at a recent conference taking place in Kuala Lumpur. It seems that over the past few years levels of piracy have diminished substantially in the key waterway of the Malacca Straits, although spiralling elsewhere, especially in Africa. Already this year there have been recorded 17 actual or attempted attacks in Nigerian waters, with 40 seafarers taken hostage and Somalia, on the Horn of Africa, has become a ‘no-go’ area.

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One of the biggest challenges that the global logistics industry faces over the next few years is from environmental legislation. Governments and consumers are showing an increasing interest in the level of ‘food miles’, i.e. the distance between where a product originates and its eventual market. In particular this is likely to detrimentally affect the movement of goods from developing countries in continents such as Africa to markets in Europe and America. This would inevitably impact on the associated logistics sectors such as air cargo and sea freight.

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The relentless, aggressive growth and expansion of the global third-party logistics (3PL) industry, now estimated at $390 billion, continues to make the running of the bulls in Pamplona look like a stroll in the park.

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Through most of its history, two-way radio has meant analog voice — the representation of sound waves as either amplitude modulated (AM) or frequency modulated (FM) radio waves. In fact, this is one of the last areas of professional communications to be touched by digital technology. But that’s changing, very quickly, for very good reasons.

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