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Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia is No Longer Considered a Risk

MTS Logistics

A group of six international shipping organizations, including the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), proclaimed Monday that, after over a decade of preventative efforts, that the Indian Ocean would no longer be considered a high-risk corridor. The film Captain Phillips provides one of the most prolific examples of piracy in the region.

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Deutsche Post DHL Group | Apr 24, 2018: CEO Frank Appel at the Annual General Meeting: “We are strongly positioned for a successful future”

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In light of the Group’s strong business performance, the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board proposed a dividend increase of 10 cents (+9.5 If approved by the shareholders, the Group would be paying out a total of EUR 1.4 The Group already had over 5,500 StreetScooters on the road in Germany, he commented. .

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Thomann expands music logistics centre

Logistics Business Magazine

Long-time intralogistics partner of Thomann is TGW Logistics Group. Looking back: In 2009, Thomann had a system that could process 20,000 parcels per day. The picking process for the different commodity groups comprising various sizes (from instrument cables to electronic pianos) was optimised.

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WOF Summit promises latest market trends

Logistics Business Magazine

Ahead of the WOF SUMMIT , which takes place in Vienna on 4 th -5 th May, we caught up with Chief Commercial Officer of the WOF Group Christoph Grasl and asked him about this inaugural event. From 2009 he became MD of one of the leading air and sea cargo forwarders in Austria and had the Regional Director role for Central Eastern Europe.

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HBR: Managers Think They’re Good At Coaching. They’re Not.

The Lean Thinker

Needless to say, the guy didn’t have a lot of credibility with the group, as this was pretty normal behavior. example may have been a somewhat extreme case, a recent HBR article by Julia Milner and Trenton Milner titled Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. What Is Coaching? While my (real life!)

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Why Sustainable Food Systems are Needed in a post-COVID World

World Food Programme Logistics

In many countries, for example, it became impossible to harvest or package food as workers were blocked at borders or fell sick. Read more James Lomax has been the Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture Programme Officer in UN Environment’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics based in Paris, France since 2009.

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FedEx Ground increases delivery schedule to six days a week

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By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor ·. As an example, it noted that the record day for the company in 2009 was 12 million shipments, whereas now it routinely handles more than 14 million shipments on a typical day. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. September 12, 2018. operations to six days a week from five. About the Author.