The Australian Rail Track Corporation(ARTC)has welcomed its first service into its new Enfield Staging Facility,a port shuttle travelling between Minto and Port Botany. ARTC CEO John Fullerton said the staging facility will provide ...
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The Victorian Coalition Government's $1.6 billion Port Capacity Project has appointed the first private sector operators for the new facilities being constructed at Melbourne's Webb Dock. Minister for Ports David Hodgett has announced the ...
Saddle Creek Logistics Services said it has appointed company President Cliff Otto to be its CEO. Otto started working for Saddle Creek in 2001 and became president in 2007,the logistics provider said in a Dec.19 statement. "Saddle ...
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Cooney Transport has announced the launch of a new logistics division,and the hiring of Scott Cull to oversee it. Cull was recently named vice-president of Cooney Logistics.The logistics arm will broaden Cooney's service offering for new ...
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Germany-based SMS Group has announced that in 2013 its order intake will be lower than in 2012, adding that it expects its net result to decrease compared to the previous year. SMS Group stated that low capacity utilization and high raw ...
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Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Anshan Iron and Steel Group Co. (Ansteel) has announced that on December 18 it signed an agreement to establish a long-term strategic cooperative partnership with Dalian Port Group Co. with the aim ...
Polish furniture companies will present their rich, innovative and competitive offer at Interiors UK. The potential of the Polish furniture industry will also be promoted by the country's Ministry of the Economy which supports dynamically ...
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China's economy is finally rebounding from its deepest slump since the 2008 global crisis but the shaky recovery could be vulnerable to a new downturn in global trade. Growth rose to 7.9 percent in the three months ending in December, up ...
General Motors will invest just shy of US$1.3 billion ($1.45 billion) across five of its US manufacturing sites, with funding going towards production of a new V6 engine, an all-new 10-speed automatic transmission and an existing six-speed ...
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The European Space Agency’s Swarm expedition was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 22 November, on a mission to study how the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere vary in time and space. It started sending back data four ...
Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") (TSX: PPL; NYSE: PBA) announced today that it has reached binding commercial agreements to proceed with constructing approximately $2 billion in pipeline expansions (the "Phase III ...
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The recent robot-related news from Apple, Amazon, and Google shows serious momentum for the ...
A true Tier-1 WCS must be equipped to handle 2D barcode and RFID data for individual unique SKU track and trace requirements.Multi-channel order fulfillment, referred to in the logistics industry as omni-channel fulfillment, is increasingly ...
The Toll Group has added to its capabilities in the over-dimensional and heavy haulage sector with the conditional acquisition of the business and assets of Nationwide Transport Solutions (NTS). NTS has annual revenues of $17 million, is ...
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The University of Sydney Business School’s Institute of Transport and Logistic Studies (ITLS) has joined with six of the world’s leading research institutions in an effort to address the complex challenges facing ports and their ...
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