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| Axway powers single window pilot |
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
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Axway, which develops cloud-based software, has announced Nathan Associates has picked the company’s business-to-business integration (B2Bi) service to run a single window pilot program. The pilot is being put into place by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The goal of the single window is to reduce the time needed to process import and export documents, allowing businesses to operate more efficiently. ASEAN also said it expects the program to b...
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| Domestic volumes buoy intermodal |
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
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Domestic intermodal volumes continued their upward climb in the first quarter of 2012, according to the latest figures from the Intermodal Association of North America. Domestic volumes soared 14.9 percent in the quarter, to nearly 1.3 million containers. IANA attributed the rise to market share growth from trucking, “as trucking capacity was tight during the quarter and diesel prices resumed their rise after softening in Q4 2011." International intermodal volume r...
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| Safety at Sea Seminar set for May 21 |
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
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The North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA) will hold a seminar on safety at sea in Washington May 21. The seminar, titled “Environmental Intelligence in Maritime: Safety at Sea” will feature discussions of shipboard safety, piracy, and an update on issues for seafarers and will begin at 3 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington. Panelists will include Coast Guard Vice Adm. Brian Salerno; Michael Bohlman of Horizon Lines; Benjamin St...
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| Commercial ships could detect tsunamis |
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Monday, May 07, 2012
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According to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, future warnings of deadly and disruptive tsunamis may come from commercial vessels, especially those with newer tracking and navigation systems. The discovery came from the university's research vessel, Kilo Moana , which found that ship GPS can be used to determine sea surface height changes. On its way from Hawaii from Guam, the ship was traveling when a tsunami was generated by the 8.8 earthquak...
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| Baltimore mayor pushes CSX on intermodal site |
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Monday, April 30, 2012
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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, worried that planning for a rail intermodal center to support more port-related cargo and economic growth is taking longer than anticipated, on Friday asked CSX Transportation to consider a site within city limits instead of suburban locations that face political opposition or excessive development costs. The freight railroad wants to build an intermodal container transfer facility (ICTF) south of the city to combine international ...
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| AlixPartners establishes maritime practice |
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
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The global business advisory firm AlixPartners this week said it has started a new Global Maritime Practice. The practice has been set up to advise the $380 billion international maritime industry as it tries to “find its bearings following the perfect storm of the financial crisis, the Great Recession and skyrocketing fuel costs,” the firm said. “While companies in the maritime industry have recently announced significant cost-savings initiatives, many balance she...
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| Pregis app fixes packing problems |
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
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Pregis Corp., which develops protective packaging to minimize environmental impact, has launched a new “On Point” iPad app to help logistics personnel make protective packaging decisions around individual product requirements. The app also allows customers to contact Pregis’ staff and distribution partners for assistance in acquiring needed materials. The assessment checklist service collects data around packaging categories – cushioning, v...
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| Stifel: Ocean freight steadily stabilizing |
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Ocean freight levels have remained “soft” through April, though they're stronger than in March, according to the latest Stifel Nicolaus Logistics Confidence Index. The index is a partnership between Stifel Nicolaus and U.K.-based Transport Intelligence and is based on a monthly survey of international shippers and forwarders to gauge the level of freight activity in several European-based international trade lanes. “All trade lanes showed sequential improvement over...
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| Report highlights rising metal theft |
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Significant theft of metals in the United States has increased by 254 percent, from 13 thefts in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 46 incidents in the first quarter of 2012, according to a report from FreightWatch International, a logistics security company. Freightwatch says there were more metal thefts in the first quarter than all of 2010 and over half of all metal thefts recorded in 2011. "Theft of copper and other metals is not unique to the United S...
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| Drewry, CargoSmart partner on carrier KPIs |
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Drewry Maritime Research and CargoSmart said Tuesday they have entered into a cooperative agreement to track container shipping key performance indicators (KPIs) to help importers and exporters benchmark their carriers’ service levels. London-based Drewry will incorporate the additional KPIs into a new quarterly report, the details of which will be announced later this month. “The new container KPIs will add value as they will measure performance at the box-level, ...
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| Liner schedule reliability improves in March |
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Global liner carrier reliability increased from 78 percent in February to 79 percent in March, according to the latest figures from SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. Among the top 20 container carriers, the three top positions are unchanged, with Maersk Line in the lead followed by Hamburg Süd and APL. “The difference in global reliability across the top 20 carriers remains significant, with MSC at the bottom, arriving within a day of schedule in 64 percent of ...
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| Argentine logistics park receives overseas financing |
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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The Inter-American Development Bank last month finalized a $20 million loan to Plaza Logistica SRL for construction of two logistics parks outside Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to the multilateral bank's Website . It is the first time the IDB has ever approved a private sector loan to finance a logistics project in Latin American and the Caribbean. The logistics parks in Escobar and Pilar will have a combined 85,000 square meters of warehouse space for ...
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| Digital CargoHandbook goes live |
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Monday, April 16, 2012
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A newly launched Website, CargoHandbook.com , provides transportation details related to more than 750 commodities. The Website also offers definitions and restrictions related to the products, with the goal of reducing cargo-related incidents and claims. In addition, it provides an alphabetical list of cargo items and is built on the same structure as sites like Wikipedia for easy searches. Users can also submit information which ...
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| GHX expands health supply chain offering |
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
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Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), a healthcare technology and services company, is expanding its supply chain services by acquiring TriSolve Ltd. in Bradford, United Kingdom, coming at the heels of its French acquisition of the Beep-N-Track solution from Implanet. TriSolve currently provides consulting and support with systems integration and management to National Health Service (NHS) Trusts and suppliers. NHS is the publically funded healthcare system of England and Wale...
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| U.S., Brazil enter aviation partnership |
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
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The United States and Brazil this week entered a public-private partnership to enhance bilateral aviation cooperation in areas such as airport expansion, airspace management, safety and security. “These programs will support Brazil's aviation infrastructure development priorities, while connecting U.S. companies to the growing business opportunities in the sector,” said the U.S. Trade and Development Agency. As a result of rapidly increasing air traffic due to...
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| GHX names Cochran tech chief |
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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GHX, a health care supply chain consulting service based in Louisville, Colo., has named Steve Cochran as its new chief technology officer. Cochran will lead development of the company’s exchange service that connects providers with suppliers. Cochran comes from GXS where he served as vice president of global product management. Cochran was the technology chief of Inovis until that company was purchased by GXS. GHX, founded by five medic...
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| Asia-Europe rates shoot up in past week |
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Friday, April 06, 2012
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Freight rates from Asia to Europe increased 28 percent in the last week, according to an assessment from the World Container Index (WCI), a joint venture between Drewry and The Cleartrade Exchange. The significant increase comes one month after previous large rate increases implemented by carriers and shows that shippers are coming under increasing rate pressure as carriers hold the line on rate levels. The WCI’s Shanghai-Rotterdam container freight rate sub-index ...
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| FORTE appoints Clark to CIO |
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Friday, April 06, 2012
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FORTE, a consulting firm for supply chain and distribution, has hired Eric E. Clark as its new chief information officer. Clark will be responsible for technology strategy, services, and sales support of FORTE’s Smart Warehouse Suite of warehouse management software. He will also play a role in the development of new products and functionality. Clark previously spent four years as vice president of enterprise systems for United Natural Foods, a national food distri...
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| Vista expands base in Indiana |
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Friday, March 30, 2012
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enVista, a supply chain consulting firm, will expand its headquarters in Carmel, Ind., by investing $1.2 million to add 10,000 square feet to its offices. The expansion is expected to create up to 96 new jobs by 2016, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), a board headed by Gov. Mitch Daniels. enVista, which focuses on the retail, automotive and health care industries, said it will also buy new hardware and software ...
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| U.S. politicians weigh in on port labor situation |
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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House lawmakers canvassed last week at a port industry conference in Washington had differing opinions about the potential need for federal intervention to keep trade flowing if growing labor tension between marine terminal operators and unionized dockworkers on the Eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast is not resolved by Sept. 30. Asked about the potential impact if negotiations involving the International Longshoremen's Association stall, Rep. Janice Hahn, said, "It's vital that our...
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| Alliances test individual lines' on-time efforts |
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Monday, March 26, 2012
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Liner carriers in the transpacific may benefit or suffer from their participation in alliances in terms of schedule reliability, according to the consultant SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. In its latest SeaIntel Sunday Spotlight newsletter, research shows there can be a 40 percent difference in on-time rates among carriers in the same alliance or vessel-sharing agreement. (Click to view full chart by SeaIntel Maritime Analysis.) “Looking at the Grand Alliance as an exam...
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| U.S. provides port safety study grant to Morocco |
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Monday, March 26, 2012
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The U.S. Trade and Development Agency awarded a $571,458 grant to Morocco to support a feasibility study to improve safety and security at the Port of Casablanca. The grant was specifically issued to Marsa Maroc, a major port operator in Morocco. The Moroccan government is planning to invest $360 million to modernize the port infrastructure by 2015. The Port of Casablanca currently handles 32 percent of all national port traffic. Another $76.5 m...
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| Panalpina optimizes finance with Accenture |
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Friday, March 23, 2012
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Freight forwarder Panalpina has started the first phase of a finance and accounting business process outsourcing initiative as part of a seven-year agreement with Accenture that it signed in October 2010. Panalpina said it's working with Accenture to consolidate and standardize financial processes for its global operations including purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash and record-to-report services. The goal is to unify these processes through new technology platforms that give ...
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| CargoNet reports 17% rise in cargo theft |
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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CargoNet, a source for cargo theft information, said it recorded 1,215 cargo theft incidents last year, 17 percent more than the 1,035 in 2010. Its annual report said 116 incidents involved base metals, 229 electronics, 105 apparel and accessories, and 200 prepared foodstuffs and beverages. Most cargo theft incidents occurred on Fridays (227), Saturdays (202), and Sundays (198) at locations such as truck stops, carrier/terminal lots, and unsecured pa...
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| New thinking urged for infrastructure financing |
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
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A new study by the nonprofit research organization RAND Corp. argues that traditional revenue sources are not sufficient to address the United States’ infrastructure shortcomings and their effects on U.S. supply chains. The report, A Federal Role in Freight Planning and Finance , takes the approach that several key elements of many widely discussed freight infrastructure financing proposals are off the mark. “The authors reject the notion that the federal governmen...
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| Asia-Europe absorbs over half of 2010-2011 deliveries |
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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Asia-Europe trade has soaked up the majority of new boxship capacity over the past two years, according to international shipbroker Braemar Seascope, which reported that 56 percent of new boxship capacity delivered was deployed on the Asia-Northern Europe and Asia-Mediterranean trades. Over the past two years, 2.6 million TEUs of fully cellular newbuilding capacity has been delivered, with 1.5 million TEUs going to the Asia-Europe trades. “During 2011, 59 post-Pana...
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| Zepol: 2011 positive for most U.S. ports |
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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Most of the top U.S. ports had positive import volume growth from 2010 to 2011, according to the trade intelligence company Zepol Corp. In its newly release 2011 U.S. Port Report , Zepol said 18 of the top 20 ports grew their import throughput last year. The report details port activity for the top 20 U.S. ports for 2011, with profiles on recent trends, key importers, and top carriers. The report also showed that China is the top country of origin for three-quarter...
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| ISCEA, Critical Gap! partner in Singapore |
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Monday, March 19, 2012
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The International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA) has entered a partnership with Critical Gap! (CG), appointing CG as its "authorized knowledge provider" for Singapore. ISCEA develops certification programs for supply chain managers, analysts, and "lean" and RFID masters. ISCEA said its 61,000 members hold mid- to senior-level supply chain management positions.
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| Liner reliability improves in February |
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Friday, March 16, 2012
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Liner carrier schedule reliability improved marginally in February, according to the latest report from SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. Reliability increased from 58 percent in January to 60 percent in February, the first increase in four months, according to the analyst. SeaIntel considers a call on-time if it happens on the same calendar day or the day before as scheduled. SeaIntel also noted an increase in the reliability amongst the top performing carriers. ...
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| Indian 3PL market set to boom |
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
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India is seeing an increased demand for the third party logistics services due to a new focus on supply chain management and bids for deeper market penetration, according to a new report from RNCOS. RNCOS’ 3rd Party Logistics Market in India says India has seen a continuous improvement to its logistics infrastructure which has had the effect of making 3PL services perceived as a better way to control internal and external processes. Consumer elecontrics an...
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| U.S. imports fell 3.4% in February |
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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U.S. containerized imports fell 3.4 percent year-on-year in February, according to the trade intelligence firm Zepol Corp. The total number of shipments in February fell 2.7 percent from the same month in 2011. Imports by volume declined 17.5 percent from January 2012. “For the past five years, the month of February tends to have the least amount of shipments and usually falls from January imports,” Zepol said. “This is partly due to its fewer number of days.” &nbs...
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| Supply chain risk handbook published |
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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Research and Markets has added John Wiley and Sons’ Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains to its offering. The book aims to be a primary reference for research on integrated risk management, modern applications, and management best practices. “The set of the normal business risks is expanded as firms are now often facing unfamiliar and uncertain demand and supply markets, and unanticipated commodity price shocks a...
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| Indexed freight swaps now hedge backhauls |
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
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World Container Index, a 50-50 joint venture between Drewry and Cleartrade Exchange, has announced that over-the-counter freight swap trades will now be cleared on two new backhaul routes by LCH.Clearnet. WCI assessments on the Los Angeles-Shanghai and Rotterdam-Shanghai trade lanes will be available with contracts similar to those offered by LCH.Clearnet for Shanghai-Los Angeles and Shanghai-Rotterdam in the headhaul directions. WCI commented that the largest...
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| SaaS-based supply chain management sees growth |
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
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Research and Markets has added TechNavio’s new Global SaaS-based Supply Chain Management Software Market 2010-2014 report that says the market will see growth thanks to increased usage of Web-based applications and cloud computing. The global supply chain management market has seen a rapid adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) models and offerings for transportation management, but the report found security concerns are still prevalent. The report – which covers...
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| Avnet expands RaBET tool |
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Thursday, March 01, 2012
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Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business division of Phoenix-based Avnet, has launched the Rapid Benefit Estimation Tool (RaBET) for reducing supply chain costs. RaBET is a free supply chain diagnostic tool that aims to show customers ways to save money by using Avnet as their supply chain partner. John Sanders, director, supply chain management, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, said "with RaBET, users can easily calculate the impact that outsourcing their sup...
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| STTAS names Romano deputy COO |
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services (STTAS) said Gianluca Romano, senior vice president, will take on the additional role of deputy chief operating officer. In this new position, Romano will supervise the STTAS information technology group and share management responsibility for all STTAS commercial operations with Alfred J. D’Amico, the firm’s COO and executive vice president for commercial and advisory services. Romano has expanded the firm’s overs...
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| Drewry: Expect reliability to fall as rates rise |
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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The advisory and research company Drewry said shippers should expect reliability levels to fall as rates rise, if recent research is an indicator. “When rates have been good for carriers, reliability has been below par, while the two best on-time results have occurred in periods when prices have been on the floor,” Drewry Supply Chain Advisors said in its February Logistics Executive Briefing. “While the historical results do leave plenty of room for improvement, it is c...
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| LMI expands in U.S. southeast |
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Government logistics services provider LMI will establish a southeast region office via its recent acquisiton of Belzon Inc., a government consultancy in Huntsville, Ala. LMI, which focuses on defense and intelligence, health care, homeland security, energy and environment, and civil government work, said the purchase was finalized, but did not disclose financial terms. Belzon has done work in logistics planning, readiness management, program ...
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| Drewry opens Shanghai office |
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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London-based advisory and research company Drewry said Tuesday it has opened a new office in Shanghai. “Through this new site, Drewry is now better placed to serve key clients, while also using local market knowledge to support international clients,” the company said. “Drewry is no stranger to the Chinese market, having built long-established relationships over the past decade and completed numerous assignments for leading organisations, while also jointly organising the annual...
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| Third port for Georgia? |
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Monday, February 20, 2012
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Georgia officials are eyeing a bankrupt paper mill on the St. Mary's River in Camden County as a possible site for a third port, according to two local newspapers. Camden County Development Authority Executive Director David Keating recommended to lawmakers that the state buy the 720-acre site of the defunct mill for $12 million and turn it into a port, the Morris News Service reported Thursday. He also presented his plan to Gov. Nathan Deal and the Georgia Ports Authority,...
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| Analyst: $13.1 billion for smart transport |
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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A study by Pike Research, a market research and consulting firm, found that intelligent transportation systems (ITS) will continue to see increased investment worldwide despite tightening purse strings. Pike estimates global investments in smart transport technology will reach $13.1 billion from 2011 through 2017. ITS, also called smart transportation systems, includes electric vehicles, vehicles with advanced telematics systems, new and ...
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| Imperial, GIBS partner on supply chain program |
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Friday, February 17, 2012
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The Johannesburg, South Africa-based Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) and Imperial Logistics, a logistics services provider, have launched a Supply Chain and Logistics Program to provide teaching and research in the fields of logistics, supply chain management, and transportation management. The goal of the program is to raise awareness of supply chain management systems for firms in the Southern and greater Africa regions, and also create supply chain ...
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| Leavitt, Park City build food and drug visibility |
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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Leavitt Partners and Park City Group have paired to create a joint solution to improve supply chain visibility for food and drug safety. The partnership will leverage Park City’s product "synchronization" technology that maintains inventories, tracks product movement, and is used to settle financial transactions among buyers. Leavitt Partners, a health care and food safety consulting firm, said the firms will start with a database of seller and b...
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| SeaIntel: Competition lessens ocean freight rate spread |
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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Direct liner carrier service competition has a significant impact on the spread between high and low rate levels, according to research from SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. “We have investigated the difference in freight rates across 130 individual port-port trades from Asia to the U.S. East and West coasts,” the Copenhagen-based analyst said in this week’s issue of its weekly newsletter SeaIntel Sunday Spotlight . “We then matched this rate difference against the competitiv...
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| Parsons Brinckerhoff picks Northeast ports director |
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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Parsons Binckerhoff has appointed Phillip Girandola to director of ports and marine in the U.S. Northeast. New York-based Parsons Brinckerhoff is a global infrastructure consulting, planning, engineering and program/construction management firm. Girandola has more than 27 years of experience as an engineering consultant and construction contractor in marine and heavy civil projects.
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| Asia-Europe volume rose 3% in 2011 |
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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Asia-to-Europe container volume rose 3.3 percent in 2011, according to figures released this week by Container Trade Statistics, which compiles self-reported volumes from the major lines on trades to and from Europe. Volume reached 13.9 million TEUs in the year, up from 13.5 million in 2010. That included a 0.8 percent rise year-on-year in December to 1.2 million TEUs, but a 0.5 percent drop in the fourth quarter to 3.4 million TEUs. Europe-to-Asia volume ro...
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| 1 million container trackers installed by 2016 |
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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According to new research from analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of active remote container tracking units used on intermodal shipping containers reached 77,000 in the last quarter of 2011. Berg Insight predicts a compound annual growth rate of 66.9 percent, projecting that 1 million trackers will be in use by 2016. This growth would see the penetration rate of tracking systems in the total container population rise from 0.4 percent in 2011 to 3.6 percent in 2016. &n...
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| DTAG seeks new members |
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Friday, February 10, 2012
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The Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG), a private-sector panel that provides advice to the federal government on the policy and regulation of U.S. defense trade, is now accepting membership applications for the upcoming 2012-2014 term. “Membership on this panel presents an exciting opportunity to participate in the administration’s Export Control Reform Initiative, seeking to better align the export control process with emerging global security challenges,” the State De...
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| Drewry upbeat about ro/ro business |
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
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Drewry, a maritime research firm, said the car carrier industry is "better positioned than most others in the shipping industry, who suffer from large newbuilding orderbooks, to weather a double-dip recession." Publicizing a new report on the sector, Drewry said "the downturn hurt car-carrying vessels, with capacity utilization falling significantly," but added "operators are now less likely to charter tonnage for long periods, instead placing an emphasis on fu...
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| Report calls NY/NJ port authority 'dysfunctional' |
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
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A highly critical report on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, released on Tuesday, described the agency as a "challenged and dysfunctional organization suffering from a lack of consistent leadership, a siloed underlying bureaucracy, poorly coordinated capital planning processes, insufficient cost controls, and a lack of transparent and effective oversight of the World Trade Center (the “WTC”) program that has obscured full awareness of billions of dollars in exposu...
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| Drewry: Schedule reliability hits high in 4Q 2011 |
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Monday, February 06, 2012
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Container service reliability reached a new high in the final quarter of 2011 with an on-time average of 69 percent across all the trades covered by the maritime consultant Drewry in its latest Schedule Reliability Insight report. On-time reliability improved by 6 percent over the previous quarter, meaning that schedule reliability has improved for three consecutive quarters. But despite the positive results, the report points out that when the previous record of 68 perc...
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| New research to cut across infrastructure types |
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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The Urban Institute has established a multi-dimensional Infrastructure Initiative designed to inform the public and government officials about the important tradeoffs in developing, operating, maintaining and financing the nation's core systems that support society. The research effort will examine the fiscal, social and environmental costs and benefits of policy choices at all levels of government related to transportation, electrical, water, sewer, wireless and broadband ...
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| U.S. West Coast container volume drops in 2011 |
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Friday, January 27, 2012
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Total 2011 container volume at the major U.S. West Coast ports fell by 0.8 percent year-on-year, according to the maritime consultant Dynamar. Collective volume at Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, and Tacoma dropped to 19.1 million TEUs, compared to 19.2 million TEUs in 2010. As previously reported by American Shipper , Los Angeles saw volume rise 1.4 percent, while Long Beach volume fell 3.2 percent in 2011, mostly thanks to volume switching ...
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| Drewry sees more interest in index-linked contracts |
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Neil Dekker, head of container research for London-based Drewry, said interest in index-linked shipping contracts may grow this year because of continuing volatility in shipping rates and the possibility that rates may spike later this year. Speaking about the latest edition of Drewry's Container Forecaster publication in a video posted on the company's Website, Dekker said Drewry has heard anecdotally that interest in index-linked contracts is on the rise by shippers an...
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| Ports debate Panama Canal widening |
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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The ability to move larger ships through the Panama Canal will reduce the cost of all-water service between the Far East and the eastern part of the United States, but speakers at a conference held last week in Tampa, Fla. were divided on how significant theimpact of the canal will be on cargo routing. "We are not the fat hog waiting to be cut," said Dean Wise, vice president of network strategy for the BNSF Railway. "We are not going to sit back and see t...
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| SeaIntel: CAF revenue increasing |
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Monday, January 23, 2012
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Some liner carriers may have aided their revenue collection in 2011 through higher currency surcharges, according to research from the maritime analyst SeaIntel. SeaIntel analyzed the development of currency adjustment factors (CAF) on the Asia-Europe trade and came to two main conclusions. First, the CAF charged varies significantly across carriers, with the difference increasing drastically over the past three years. “We are now at a point whe...
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| Supply chain expert Seger dies at 83 |
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
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Roland “Ron” E. Seger, who served as partner and senior vice president of A.T. Kearney, in New York for 19 years before retiring in 2000, died on Jan. 10 after a long illness. At A.T. Kearny, Seger worked with major clients like General Motors, Unilever, BMG, Bristol Meyers Squibb, BASF Chemical, Philip Morris, and Avon. He held executive positions in sales, marketing and operations at Philip Morris and Chesebrough-Ponds prior to joining A.T. Kearney as a manageme...
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| Agility releases new emerging markets index |
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Monday, January 16, 2012
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Agility and Transport Intelligence said ithey will launch the second edition of the Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, a measure of how change and instability in the last year have affected more than 40 of the world’s emerging markets. The index will address issues like: Which market became China’s biggest trading partner? Did the Arab Spring impact business and confidence across the Middle East? Which markets does the logistics industry think are the top 10 ...
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| Container forecast flat in January/February |
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Monday, January 16, 2012
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Import cargo volume at the United States' major retail container ports should be nearly flat during January, compared with the same month in 2011, but significant year-over-year increases are expected this spring, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released last week by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. “We’re headed into the slow season for cargo shipments, but forecasts indicate that retailers will be stocking up this spring in ant...
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| Arigo, Tompkins International partner |
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Friday, January 13, 2012
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Arigo, a Massachusetts-based provider of trade management technology, and Tompkins International, a supply chain consulting and implementation firm, have formed a partnership to provide a unified global trade management (GTM) application. “True global trade management, today, requires new operation strategies and a full integration of organizations, processes, and technologies throughout the end-to-end supply chain,” said Bill Ren, chief executive officer of Arigo. “We...
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