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We are now entering our third year here at 3PLwire and are looking forward to another great year in 2008. 2007 was a banner year for us; we completed our second full year, our readership doubled, and we were featured in an article in industry leading Inbound [...]
Supply Chain Management
Exports and Free Trade Agreements contributing positively to the economy»We probably don’t do as good a job as we should when it comes to trumpeting exports and talking about international trade items, but luckily ShopFloor.org is there to pick up our slack. They have a number of recent posts about the positive effect trade is having on the overall U.S. economy.
First off is [...]
Incoterms 2000
How well do you know your Incoterms?»
Think you have a fairly good grasp on your Incoterms? I thought I did until I took the “challenge” from www.tradefacil.com.
You can take the challenge here (registration required).
Drop us a line and let us know how you did.
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Seafreight
NOL bids for Hapag-Lloyd»
NOL, the parent company of APL, has confirmed that they have submitted a non-binding offer to purchase Hapag Lloyd’s container shipping business.
If the offer goes through, the acquisition into the APL family will create the world’s third largest container business behind Maersk and MSC.
It will be interesting to see if a bidding war takes place [...]
China
Shenzhen container throughput slows»Via Lloyd’s List:
The world’s fourth busiest and China’s No.2 container port handled 10.2m teu in the first six months of this year, 7.2% higher than the same period last year, according to initial figures from the Shenzhen transport bureau.
The transport bureau attributed the slower pace of growth to shrinking US export volume and a [...]
3PL
Required training for logistics sales people»
Thanks to Freight Dawg.
I too am appalled at the general lack of geographical knowledge by folks within the logistics provider industry, particularly sales people. I’ve worked both sides of the fence and as a customer it is pretty embarrassing when you have to explain or point out to the sales rep the location of [...]
