The Indian textile industry, the single largest employment provider, employing over 91 million people particularly the rural masses and women and the backbone of country's economy has been passing through a worst crisis in its history ...
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Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturer Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus, a subsidiary of Daimler has secured an order for 641 trucks in Malaysia and Australia. The order includes 466 medium-duty Fuso Fighter trucks for Malaysian waste ...
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Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India remained stable to higher on Wednesday, following a positive trend seen this week due to higher fixture activity, sources said. ...
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Safety Gates Ensure Fail-Safe Fall Protection in Mezzanine AreasLaurie Hull, Sales Manager, Benko Products, Inc. Mezzanine areas provide invaluable staging and storage space in warehouses and distribution centers, where space is at a ...
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Photo courtesy of Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. Opinion – Paul Zalai, Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) 2012 ended with significant controversy further questioning the integrity of Australia’s borders. ...
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Photo courtesy of DAF Trucks Australia. One half of the Supermarket duopoly, Woolworths, has made encouraging public commitments to playing their part in tackling the lethal pressures in trucking while the other half, Coles, continues to ...
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Qantas Freight has revealed the business model and executive leadership team under which the combined Qantas Freight and Australian air Express business will operate. The combined business will have an integrated domestic and ...
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US-based global packaging company, Sonoco has announced that it will raise the price for all grades of uncoated recycled paperboard (URB) products by $25 per ton, effective for shipments in the US and Canada from 11 February 2013. Sonoco ...
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December retail sales were up compared to November and also on an annual basis, to data released today by the United States Department of Commerce and the National Retail Federation (NRF). Commerce reported that December retail sales at ...
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Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India ended the week stable to slightly lower on Friday, amid a pick up in fixture activity, even as the market continues to be weighed down ...
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Mitsubishi Caterpillar Forklift America Inc. (MCFA), a leading provider of forklift trucks in the United States, Canada and Mexico, today announced the launch of the Jungheinrich “Parts Fast or Parts Free Guarantee,” which ...
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Chinese end-users have switched to concluding term contract deals and lessened their spot buying with the approach of China's Lunar New Year festivities in mid-February, as spot prices for south China stayed rangebound in Thursday's trading ...
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The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.7 percent in November from October, rising after a one-month decline, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS) ...
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The Pantry has named B Clyde Preslar as SVP and chief financial officer. Preslar joints The Pantry from RetailAmerica, where he served as finance chief since 2008. Previously he held financial positions with Cott Corp and Lance. He will ...
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At the SteelOrbis Fall'11 Conference&65th IREPAS Meeting held in St.Petersburg on September 25-27,the ChermetServis Snabzenie General Manager Sergey Labintsev made statements about the company and the scrap market in Russia. Can you ...
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