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TX Logistik tests 838m train in Sweden

Logistics Business Magazine

TX Logistik AB , Swedish subsidiary of Germany’s TX Logistik AG, has test-run a freight train with a length of 838 meters in Sweden. The rail logistics company, which is part of the Mercitalia Group (Gruppo FS Italiane), operated the fully loaded train on the approximately 500km route between Malmö and Frövi (Örebro province).

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Trainer completes record fourth secondment

Logistics Business Magazine

Jon Aspden, Head of Driver Training at Clipper Logistics, now part of GXO, has completed his fourth overseas secondment for international development organisation Transaid , spending two weeks working with professional driver trainers on Transaid’s road safety project in Ghana.

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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. We have been training effective coaches long before 2009 when the original book was published. As I recall I had scheduled a meeting with a supplier over something that he had thought was more important.

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Environmentally Conscious Efforts: How Trinity Stays Green

Trinity Logistics

Environmental groups feel better fuel economy would not only save consumers billions of dollars, but would also push vehicles to be more efficient, slashing pollution. Trinity Logistics became part of the Responsible Care Partnership in 2009, furthering our commitment to the hazmat chemical industry we’ve served since 2002.

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Bob Bandos takes over from Lars Heisselberg at GAC Americas

The LoadStar

Bob Bandos (pictured above, left) has been appointed GAC’s group vice president of the Americas, following the retirement of Lars Heisselberg (above, right) who has held the position since 2009. Mr Heisselberg had a 25-year career with the GAC group and oversaw the establishment of logistics services and the continued expansion.

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New Year’s Resolutions for 2018: What’s Your Personal Challenge?

Talking Logistics

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been setting a personal challenge every year since 2009. Two years ago, I came up with my own big audacious personal challenge : assemble a team of riders from a select group of logistics companies to join me for a 102.7-mile Ken Wood , Descartes Systems Group. Andrew Clarke , C.H.

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‘Photography became my blood’

World Food Programme Logistics

34 young refugees participating in the WFP Storytellers training in Bidibidi settlement, Uganda. “I My journey to be who I am today started with a training, just like the one you are on now,” he says. “As Bullen and Spike were reunited after ten years during the 2018 WFP Storytellers training in Bidibidi. everything changed.