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Supply Chain and Logistics Strategy
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Supply chain and logistics news, insight, advice.
- Added on: Jul 25th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
UPS’s Asia air hub
UPS will move its Asia hub from Philippines to ChinaUPS is moving its Asia hub from the Philippines to Shenzhen, China to reduce transit times throughout the region. The new hub will be operational in 2010 and will cost $180 million. The re...
UPS Freight Extends Reliability Guarantee to Canada
With the increase cross-border volume, the UPS Freight announced that on June 30 for less-than-truckload shipments it will guarantee delivery to Canada.The increase in market demand and though competition, companies are looking to differentiate thems...
Dallas area to add 6,000 acre hub to foreign trade zone
The addition to the Dallas Logistics hub will create the largest foreign trade zone in the nation. The completion of the hub is expected to be 30 years. The economic impact to the region is significant with $5.4 billion and creation of 60,000 jobs.Th...
EADS affected by the weak dollar and supply chain problems
EADS sells their planes in dollars but buys the parts in Euros. The weak dollar is hurting their profit.Both the weakness of the dollar and supply chain constraints are significant hurdles for Airbus’s parent EADS, in the medium term. EAD...
Shanghai to become the world’s largest container port this year
Shanghai expects to grow by 15 percent this year and surpassed Singapore as the world’s largest container portAfter surpassing Hong Kong with container volume of 26.15 million TEUs last year, China expects to reach over 30 million TEUs this year an...
Con-Way freight aims to reduce their carbon footprint
By reducing the speed of the governors on the tractor fleet from 65 to 62 miles per hour, Con-Way believes they will reduce their fuel consumption by 3.2 million gallons a year and their carbon emissions by 72 million pounds a year.Con-Way freight ha...
