China’s ambitious plans to raise the living standards of the country’s rural interior have set off a boom in transport infrastructure development and a rush to upgrade its logistics industry. Here’s how a number of international companies are already taking advantage of these changes.

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China will soon be permitting U.S. inspectors for verification of Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism compliance.

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ARL Consulting announces the release of their ARL e-Quote Platform, which allows transport providers to give freight quotes along with schedules on-line to their customers and partners. The ARL e-Quote Platform is the second module after ARL e-Schedule in a series of commercial e-business offerings on the arl-shipping.com portal, building up to a full e-Yield solution. The platform can be requested from ARL’s portal for shipping solutions, arl-shipping.com.

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The European Commission has issued a further policy document related to the development of the European transport industry. The administration in Brussels has a tendency to develop ‘common’ policies that aim to standardise activity across the European Union. However one of the fundamental problems it faces in the implementation of such a goal is that transport markets are emphatically national in nature.

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Swiss global logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel has announced yet another strong set of quarterly figures suggesting an acceleration in its already high rate of growth. The company’s EBITDA is up 23.2% over the past quarter at CHF241milloin, compared to the past nine months which show a 16% increase. Turnover has increased less vigorously, but is up 17.6% over the quarter compared to 15.7% over the nine month period. EBITDA for the nine months January to September was CHF709million (€426million/$603million).

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Federal records show at least 628 recalls so far this year, and another 941 in 2006. Globalization accounts for some of this surge. Many U.S. companies depend on overseas production, where quality controls are difficult to monitor.

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Maersk Logistics announced the global launch of a new carbon footprint reduction service. The new offering – the SupplyChain CarbonCheck™ - is a consulting service aimed at supporting companies in reducing carbon emissions from their supply chains. The service is the first of its kind developed by a logistics provider specifically to address global supply chains.

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The roles logistics and supply chains play in a corporate environment is one which cuts “across the grain” and ultimately plays a large role in customer satisfaction, which is the leading indicator of a company’s success, according to Carly Fiorina, former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard.

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Norbert Dentressangle Group and the Directors of Christian Salvesen are pleased to announce today that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended acquisition by way of Scheme of Arrangement by Norbert Dentressangle Group of the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Christian Salvesen at a price of 92 pence in cash for each Christian Salvesen Share, valuing Christian Salvesen’s fully diluted share capital at approximately £254.4 million (€365.1 million)

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