Marshall L. Doney, AAA Vice President, to join the board Club Assist announced in June that Marshall L. Doney, Vice President of Automotive for AAA, was appointed to the Board of Club Assist Corporation Pty Ltd. Doney began his AAA career in 1984 and has served in Senior Management roles at AAA Wisconsin,…
CEVA extends services to E.ON and its contractors CEVA, a leading global supply chain management company, has extended the signs and barriers operation it manages for E.ON. The service now includes delivering signs and barriers to E.ON and its external service providers. The scope of activities includes the management of a Helpdesk and an ‚R&R‘ Repair…
First flight from Milan Malpensa to Hong Kong Cargoitalia – Italy’s new all-cargo carrier – has successfully performed its first commercial flight since its re-formation under new management and ownership. The flight took place just three days after the airline received its AOC. The flight left Milan Malpensa on time on Saturday July 25th,…
Management provides preliminary estimate of results CEVA Group Plc announces that its Quarter Two and Half Year 2009 Results will be communicated to the market on 12 August 2009. Ahead of the Quarter Two results, CEVA is advising that there have been improvements across all markets in comparison to Quarter One 2009, although…
trans-o-flex beliefert alle dänische Krankenhäuser und Großhändler binnen 24 Stunden nach Warenübernahme in Deutschland Die trans-o-flex Logistik-Service GmbH, ein Unternehmen der trans-o-flex-Logistikgruppe, hat für den amerikanischen Pharmahersteller Pfizer ein neues Konzept für die Verteilung von Pfizer-Produkten in Dänemark entwickelt und die Umsetzung erfolgreich gestartet. Besondere Voraussetzung war, dass die dänische Arzneimittelbehörde dem trans-o-flex-Partner, der…
New hardware test system Amplicon’s new Test Systems Division has been developed to provide system integrators and end-users with the widest range of test system hardware at a price that only a manufacturer and tier 1 distributor can offer. PXI, Compact PCI (cPCI), LXI and PC-based systems along with an extensive product integration service…
Feierlicher Jubiläumsempfang am 28. Juli 2009 in Stuttgart-Degerloch Seit ihrer Gründung 1979 hat sich AEB von der „Softwareschmiede für Zollabwicklung“ zu einem international tätigen Softwareunternehmen für Außenwirtschaft und Logistik entwickelt. Unternehmen aus Industrie, Handel und der Logistikbranche setzen Lösungen von AEB ein, um ihre globalen Liefernetzwerke performanter, sicherer und effizienter zu gestalten. Am 28….
Porsche entscheidet sich erneut für Witron Der Hersteller sportlicher Premiumfahrzeuge aus Stuttgart hat für die Realisierung des automatischen Lager- und Kommissioniersystems im Neuen Zentralen Ersatzteillager in Sachsenheim den Parksteiner Generalunternehmer Witron Logistik + Informatik beauftragt. Dabei konnte Witron im Rahmen eines Ausschreibungs- und Ideenwettbewerbes überzeugen. Die produktive Nutzung der Anlage ist für Juli 2010 geplant….
Web 2.0 macht’s möglich: Verschiedene Unternehmen können ihre Transporte zusammen auf die Reise schicken. Einzige Voraussetzung: Die Firmen müssen in derselben Region ansässig sein. So lassen sich Kosten sparen, die Umwelt schonen und der CO2-Ausstoß verringern. "Haben Sie auf der Fahrt nach Berlin noch einen Platz frei?" Viele Wochenendpendler nutzen Mitfahrgelegenheiten, statt sich alleine ins…
Ingesamt mehr als 300 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) am Standort Hamburg werden die Zeit der Kurzarbeit für Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen nutzen. Am 3. August 2009 war Start für die ersten 69 Vollzeitqualifizierungen mit den Berufsabschlüssen Fachkraft für Hafenlogistik und Fachwirt für Hafenwirtschaft. Mit den ersten 69 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern in jeweils…
Der PSI-Konzern wurde von der Firmengruppe Simon, Aichalden, mit der Lieferung und Einführung der ERP-Komplettlösung PSIpenta für alle vier Unternehmen der Gruppe beauftragt. Ziel des Projektes ist die Harmonisierung und Integration der Geschäftsprozesse über alle Werke der Simon-Gruppe. Dadurch soll vor allem die Transparenz der Fertigungsprozesse erhöht werden. PSIpenta wird als Komplettlösung für 140 User…
Zum 1.7. des Jahres erfolgte eine Neuregelung der Aufgabenverteilung im Direktorium des Institut für Seeverkehrswirtschaft und Logistik (ISL). Herr Prof. Dr. Burkhard Lemper übernimmt die Leitung der Abteilung "Maritime Wirtschaft und Verkehr" von Herrn Prof. Dr. Manfred Zachcial und wird gleichzeitig Mitglied im Direktorium des Instituts. Professor Zachcial wird als Direktor für "International Relations" weiterhin…
Know How zum Nulltarif: add*ONE-Praxistag bei ASWO INFORM lädt Entscheider aus Industrie und Großhandel am 23. September nach Eime (bei Hannover) ein. Neben einem Rundgang im Distributionszentrum für Ersatzteile der ASWO International Service GmbH werden interessante Fachvorträge qualifizierter Referenten zum Thema Optimierung von Ersatzteilbeständen und Verbesserung der Verfügbarkeit geboten. Andreas Kuhlmann Die Veranstaltung richtet sich…
MBO of combisped and cancellation of Lübeck rail service The HHLA port logistics group (Hamburg) is responding to the steep downturn in the container trades in the Baltic region with a package of measures. The new strategy comprises intensified cooperation with Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG), a management buy-out of HHLA’s combisped subsidiary, and a planned…
Alexander Hedderich – new head of DB Schenker Rail A personnel change is to take place within the Management Board of DB Schenker Rail. Dr. Alexander Hedderich, currently head of Corporate Development at DB, is to assume overall responsibility for the pan-European rail business unit as of September 1, 2009. At the same time…
JCL Logistics achieves ISO 9001:2008 certificate JCL Logistics delivers “the right quality“. With this slogan the globally acting transport and logistics service provider announced the first in ISO 9001:2008 certificate for the whole group from Bureau Veritas in a press release. “The introduction of a central quality management system was a conscious and strategic decision….
Again labour foundation for Austrian freight forwarders The labour foundation for the Austrian freight forwarding industry is poised for a comeback. At the beginning of the week Social Aiffairs Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer announced the new edition of the Ausped foundation. This means 634 employees without a job will be given the opportunity to receive further…
Emirates Airline expands Airbus A380-route network The Airbus A380 celebrates a little jubilee at the Emirates Airline. One year ago, on 28 July 2008, the first airplane from the Airbus plant Hamburg-Finkenwerder was delivered to the Dubai-based airline. In the frame of a ceremony with numerous prominent participants from policy and economy, the world’s…
BDB afraid of negative effects on inland container shipping Since 22 July 2009 most of the terminals in Antwerp charge and discharge inland vessels only from Monday until Friday between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.. Outside of these hours PSA HNN, the biggest terminal operator in Port of Antwerp, only charges or discharges inland…
Walker Logistics Overseas (London) becomes part of C.H. Robinson Worldwide The US freight forwarding group C.H. Robinson Worldwide reinforces its network in Europe. A few days ago the takeover of Walker Logistics Overseas (London) was settled. The acquisition has five locations in England, Ireland and in the Netherlands with 75 employees. The services are ranging…
Jerich International opens distribution centre in Atlanta With a new distribution centre in Atlanta in the US state of Georgia, Jerich International meets the demands by their key account Sappi North America for an optimisation of transport- and logistics processes in North America. The new facility merges the activities that had so far been carried…
Associates take over CTA shares from Hapag-Lloyd Severely affected by the global economic crisis, the German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd receives urgently needed liquidity. At the beginning of this week the associates have reached an agreement upon a quick financial injection at the amount of EUR 330 million. Hapag-Lloyd in turn conveys its 25.1%-share…
KLG Europe Logistics new Loxx-partner for Romania Since July the Loxx freight forwarding company, based in Gelsenkirchen (Germany), cooperates in Romania traffic with the logistics service provider KLG Europe Logistics S.R.L. As a result of the partner change the western Romanian station Timisoara is served instead of Oradea. Regular traffics are also available to Bucharest,…
Gefco feels impact of global economic crisis The global economic downturn of the automotive industry has left its marks by the Gefco Group. Turnover as well as the operative result showed massive declines in the first six months of 2009. Turnover fell from EUR 1.9 billion between January and June 2008 to EUR 1.39…
100 “rail-fit“ semi-trailers for GST Stadler The Austrian transport enterprise GST Stadler expands its fleet for international traffic. Kögel Fahrzeugwerke GmbH recently delivered the first 48 units of 100 new semi-trailers to its customer. The vehicles of the Strong-MAXX coil rail type are equipped for the transportation of steel coils or slit strips. Moreover,…
Hupac Management sees bottom line arrived Also operators of combined road/rail transport feel the impact of the global economic crisis on their business volumes. The Swiss Hupac Group registered a 21.9 per cent decline between January and July to 292,426 consignments compared to the previous year. In May and June the negative trend showed a…
Chipolbrok starts calling three new ports in Middle and Far East Chipolbrok shipping line is about to add three new ports to its Asian route network. The regular service Europe-Far East will have stopovers in Singapore and Haiphong Roads (Halong Bay) once a month as of August. The Europe-Middle East/India Service will serve the destination…
Dutch Council of State suspends implementation permits for deepening Scheldt Last Tuesday the Council of State in the Netherlands suspended the routing decree and one of the implementation permits for deepening the in the Western Scheldt. The project covers deepening of the navigation channel at 12 shallow points that are currently not deep enough for…
Drastic decline in Logwin Road + Rail business As a response to the continuing difficult economic situation throughout the group Logwin AG (Grevenmacher) implements comprehensive measures aimed at capacity adjustments and cost cuttings, in particular the area of staff, such as the widespread termination of temporary work, the introduction of short-time work and staff reductions….
Expanded sea freight surveillance offer with DB Schenker DB Schenker is further expanding its service offer of consignments surveillance in international cargo transport. The DB SCHENKERsmartbox is a satellite-based real time shipment tracking system combined with sensor technology for sea cargo that is to be established on a broad scale. The new solution transmits current…
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