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Clear Sailing for Ocean Carriers in 2018 — If They Don’t Blow It

Supply Chain Brain

“Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says. He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif.,

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Top 25 Freight Forwarders 2017: Digitization & E-Commerce continue to reshape the marketplace

The Logistics Academy

Over the course of 2016, real revenue and volume growth in the air and sea freight forwarding markets was remarkably similar globally, but this disguises significant differences across important countries and regions, say analysts who keep a close eye on the market. Toll Group. Top 25 Global Freight Forwarders. A&A Rank.

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Don’t sleep on the inventory-to-sales ratio

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That is a pretty good number, especially when considering back in January 2016, which is really not all that long ago, the ratio was checking in a 1.41. But things started to weaken in 2015 and 2016 and into early 2017, due to higher inventories. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. It is more important than most people think.

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Clark seeks to reassure automotive sector on Brexit

Automotive Logistics

Ian Robertson, special representative in the UK for BMW Group and a former member of the board of management at the carmaker, has echoed points made back in 2016 , highlighting the volume of automotive flows back and forth across the Channel each day. “As As an industry, there are around 2,000 trucks per day through Dover. “We

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Gefco: Full of get up and go

Automotive Logistics

At the press conference in Paris in January, Nadal said the company was opening up to new industrial sectors including aviation, manufacturing, energy, life sciences and healthcare, among others. “I And we are setting the course on innovation in a rapidly changing world; we need to innovate more – and organise with innovation in mind.”

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Audi México: Risk and reward

Automotive Logistics

When Audi opened its assembly plant in Mexico in September 2016, it was a milestone achievement on a number of levels. Audi’s Mexican factory is the first in the Volkswagen Group to implement RFID technology for the complete material and container flow. We have standards for the whole VW Group across the world,” says Koltai.

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Smart Lagos: Status, prospects and opportunities

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Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, stopped by in August 2016. In June 2016, the Lagos State government signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai Holdings LLC, owners of Smart City (Dubai) LLC, “to develop sustainable, smart, globally connected knowledge-based communities that drive a knowledge economy.”