Facility Location Planning

Laos Makes Progress on Infrastructure and Trade

March 14, 2013

Laos has made considerable progress in its efforts to develop connectivity and trade facilitation, a senior government official told the meeting of Asian-European Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) in Vientiane.

Indonesia Offers Sizable Opportunity Because of Rising Middle-Class and Affluent Consumers

March 14, 2013

Boston Consulting Group

Indonesia is at the early stages of a period of strong economic growth, creating a wave of new middle-class and affluent consumers (MACs) that will grow in size and purchasing power through 2020, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group.

Tesco to Open Two Distribution Centers in Europe

March 13, 2013

Supply Chain Standard

Tesco is reorganizing its distribution network with new sites in Reading and Dagenham to move products closer to stores and to keep up with its growing convenience business in the South East.

Kuehne & Nagel Restructures in Effort to Increase Efficiency in Europe

March 12, 2013

Supply Chain Digital

Global logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel have announced the restructuring of their European operations in the first step of a "comprehensive programme for increases in efficiency". In an online statement released on their website, KN explained it will optimize its regional structure beginning July 2013, beginning by merging the current organisational units of central Europe, northwest Europe and southwest Europe into one central region.

Port of Rotterdam Offers Incentives for Sustainable Shipping

March 12, 2013

Handy Shipping Guide

In the EU, the recent commitment to opening up both the shipping and road haulage industries to cleaner power sources, has been reinforced by one of the world's premier container and general shipping ports with the announcement that the Port of Rotterdam is stepping up its sustainable shipping policy by rewarding the operators of liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers with a discount on port charges.

Consumer Demand to Boost Electronics Supply Chain

March 12, 2013

Engineering Capacity

According to the latest report from global business consulting firm Frost + Sullivan, a robust demand for connected devices is boosting the future of the electronics supply chain.

Manufacturing Supply Chain Funding 'Will Create Thousands of Jobs' in UK

March 12, 2013

Fresh Business Thinking

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced Â£213m of joint Government and industry investment to strengthen UK advanced manufacturing supply chains "” creating over 11,000 new jobs and safeguarding another 5,000.

Trans-O-Flex Invests 2m Euros in New Frankfurt Logistics Centre

March 12, 2013

Post & Parcel

Trans-O-Flex has opened a new logistics centre near Frankfurt Airport in central Germany to provide cross-border distribution for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

Future of Warehouse Automation

March 12, 2013

Food Logistics

There are several overarching themes driving the push for more automation inside the four walls. Some relate to changing demographics in the labor force, others to how consumers are shopping today, and let's not overlook the constant striving for more efficiency, productivity and cost reduction.

Iran Increases Port Capacity to 184 Million Tons

March 12, 2013

Tehran Times

The total capacity of Iranian ports has increased by 80 million tons during the past eight years, reaching 184 million tons, IRNA quoted Iranian roads and urban development Minister Ali Nikzad as saying.

Facility Location Planning

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