In a decision which will have a major impact on how cargo moves through the global supply chain, the United States Senate and House of Representatives recently signed off on the conference report for—“H.R. 1 Implementing the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007,which will significantly alter how maritime and air cargo is inspected.

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Three experts Adrian Gonzalez Analyst and Logistics Executive Council Director of the ARC Advisory Group, Ricki G. Ingalls Associate Professor and Site Director of the Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution (CELDi) Oklahoma State University, School of Industrial Engineering and Management and Peter Bradley Chief Editor and Founding Member DC Velocity Magazine discussing all the challenges of Global Trade Management.

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EGL announced that its shareholders, at an annual meeting of shareholders approved the proposed merger transaction with CEVA Group Plc, a UK public limited company owned by affiliates of Apollo Management VI, L.P. CEVA announced the completion of its merger with EGL.

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CEVA, a leading global supply chain management company, announces that John Pattullo has joined the company as its new Chief Executive Officer. Pattullo replaces Dave Kulik as CEO of the recently merged companies, CEVA and EGL, which will now operate under the CEVA company name. Also effective today, Kulik will now serve as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of CEVA Group Plc.

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Over the past fifty years, manufacturing has changed from individual companies producing and distributing their own products, to a global network of suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors. The challenges for many manufacturers have become how to track supply chain costs and how to deal with manufacturing costs throughout the production of goods. Software vendors, however, are now addressing these manufacturing challenges by developing new applications.

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ShipRush is a new software tool from DHL, allowing customers to ship directly from several popular business applications. They can now ship via DHL to contacts within QuickBooks, eBay or Microsoft Outlook, without re-keying address data in a separate shipping system.

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