Thursday, 14 April 2011

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Latest News Thursday 14th April

Carriers could be 'flirting with the red ink' this year, says analyst

Carriers could be 'flirting with the red ink' this year, says analyst Drewry downgrades profit expectations for shipping lines chasing market share at the expense of rates

Bidders line up to build new terminal at Indonesian gateway

But foreign operators must partner with local firms, says government of the region's largest economy

India's Continental Warehousing set for major expansion

Finance from PE firm will fund development as a logistics provider

Maersk set to order 10 more mega-containerships (Video)

And Danish line may sign up for even more 18,000teu vessels later in the year

Lufthansa Cargo gets 2011 off to a flying start

Carrier sees double-digit growth in freight volumes and capacity

Commercial flights resume at Sendai

Relief efforts lead to first domestic take-offs since disaster hit Japanese airport

£9 million for 3MG logistics project

Government weighs-in with funding for rail infrastructure at Mersey site

Hanjin announces rate rises

Price hikes on Asia-Europe trades next month

Analyst warns of overcapacity on the transpacific (Video)

IFW TV talks to BTI chief Doug Bannister

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Opinion

RSAS: the means for a safer railway

Abbey Petkar considers rail freight security

IT solutions for supply chain management expanding

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Interviews

A Q&A with Paul Barker

PD Ports Development Director for bulk, ports and logistics presents a tutorial on port-centric logistics on Thursday 7 April at Multimodal 2011

A Q&A With David Mawer

The UK MD of beverage logistics specialist JF Hillebrand explains the intricacies of supply chain management strategy in this growing niche

Features

Evaluating total cost of enterprise ownership

In recent conversations with executives from various freight forwarding companies, Andrea Robinson has realised that there is a lot of confusion over how to evaluate total cost of ownership (TCO) for logistics IT systems.

Friday Focus: Tied up in red tape

The big challenge for logistics providers in Afghanistan isn't security or terrorism, it's bureacracy, writes Felicity Landon

System integration: the pros of pulling together

System integration is used across industries of all shapes and sizes, but in logistics especially, it forms an integral part of the supply chain by making sure the flow of goods is kept on schedule and on budget, explains Matthew Marriott

Friday Focus: How war underwriters keep the world going round

Risto Talas started writing about Somali piracy in 2006 and has followed the developments in the Gulf of Aden with mixed feelings for a maritime underclass whose fishing grounds were exploited by foreign trawlers from the 1990s and in whose waters toxic waste was illegally dumped

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