The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a draft decision proposing to grant conditional authorisation for three years for Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand Limited to continue their trans-Tasman alliance. "The ...
Co-funded by the Government's 'Employers Ownership of Skills' programme and the glass industry, The Glass Academy is a multi-million pound initiative aimed at reinvigorating the glass manufacturing sector by providing the highest quality ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Japanese cNissan has signed a deal with real estate developer firm Vesta for the construction of a Douki Seisan Park (DSP) at its new Aguascalientes, Mexico manufacturing plant in the US. The deal follows need for specialized partners to ...
Rob Wilkins, senior publisher of our Trucking Group of magazines, research, online and video properties has announced his retirement. "Rob has been a great leader for this organization for over 33 years, leading his team into establishing ...
Tags: Transportation
DHL Express is celebrating its first year as the official logistics partner of charities Free The Children and Me to We. By providing the charities with free shipping, storage and logistics support, DHL has allowed them to allocate 90% of ...
Tags: DHL, Transportation
Years ago, intermodal movements were only cost and service effective on freight movements of 1500 miles and up. But intermodal Transportation has gone through a renaissance over the last decade and this number is now well below 1000 miles. ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
A progress report on facilitating cross-border business travel is signalling a willingness to change the way Canada and the US deal with the repositioning of foreign empty trailers, according to the Canadian Trucking Alliance. The report ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto
Some vintners in Italy last week may have stopped stomping grapes and frantically opened their Chinese dictionaries. The vineyards in the EU's wine-producing regions have 10 days to get the language down pat, so they can respond to a trade ...
Tags: China Probe, EU Wineries
Thousands of workers will vote on industrial action at Australia's largest transport and logistics operator after the Fair Work Commission today approved the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) application for a Protected Action Ballot across ...
Weather Update June 24, 2013 Part of the reason for the delay in sending an update on the crop position is the diversity of the information we are able to obtain. The weather has been very mixed depending on where you are standing. A very ...
Tags: agriculture, lentils, pulses, grains
On Wednesday 19 June AGC Glass Europe won an award in the Logistics category at the "2013 Supplier Trophies" organised by PSA Peugeot Citroën at Poissy in the Parisian region of France. This award recognises the quality of ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
On 20 June 2013, the Siberian lumber producer Lesosibirsky LDK 1 officially commissioned its new sawmill in Lesosibirsk. Two sawing lines, a HewSaw SL250 Trio and a HewSaw R200SE from the Finnish mechanical-engineering company Veisto were ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, coating
I must admit, part of me was really hoping that the list of names on Coca-Cola's new 'personalised' bottles would include mine. Alas it wasn't to be – though I am impressed that Coke has given me the option to personalise a bottle ...
Richard Hancock, chief executive officer, National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR). The 14th annual Queensland Supply Chain and Logistics Conference program is now available, listing an extensive line-up of senior executive guest speakers ...
Tags: Supply Chain, Logistics, Packaging
‘Moving Freight’ outlines Queensland’s ten-year strategy and policy direction for the freight system. Its objective is ‘to facilitate the efficient movement of freight.’ Its four main functions are to: ...
Tags: logistics, Moving Freight, freight