The world’s three largest container shipping companies have decided to cooperate in the fight against piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. According to The Global Insititute of Logistics in New York, the cooperation between CMA CGM, MSC and Maersk Line includes…
BSR’s “Clean Cargo Working Group” will examine Sustainability issues at tomorrow’s one hour webinar, discussion, and Q&A. The live event will be based in San Francisco
Observers of Silicon Valley have always assumed that the most successful companies get their competitive edge by paying their star employees more than the competition to fuel innovation. Now research, co-authored by Stanford professor Kathryn Shaw, and using the academic field…
The results from our Procurement and Sales Survey are in. And here’s the good news. Opportunity abounds — for implementing even the most basic techniques of strategic procurement
A potential closure of the Suez Canal caused by the political unrest in Egypt would have a serious impact on container shipping, note analysts at Alphaliner
The U.S. fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show.
The International Chamber of Commerce released a report at the 6th Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy on last week that reported the global economic and social impacts of counterfeiting and piracy will reach $1.7 trillion by 2015 and put 2.5 million…
Supply management departments that seem to be on the defensive can often fall into the trap of publishing statistics about how busy they are, or how their headcount compares favorably to other companies.
Following President Obama's State of the Union Address earlier this week, the International Warehouse Logistics Association said it welcomes a national discussion on the need for America's infrastructure renewal.
The hot topic for many of the sessions is: How do you factor transportation into more liveable communities? However, most of the focus is on moving people
Even though consumers spent most of 2010 on the sidelines, retailers found a way to tap into pent up demand when it counted the most.
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