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Saddle Creek Corp., a Lakeland, Fla.-based third-party logistics company, has recently appointed Tom Collins as director of marketing. Collins was most recently senior manager of marketing for FedEx Freight. He has also held marketing positions at Roadway Express and Watkins Motor Lines. Tom brings valuable transportation and logistics experience...
Kuehne + Nagel has opened a multiuser warehousing facility in northern Italy dedicated to the storage and distribution of frozen foods. The new distribution center was constructed on a 45,000-square-meter plot at Casorate Primo, southwest of Milan, and provides more than 12,000 square meters of warehouse space and a temperature-controlled (-28) storag...
China's Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday that foreign direct investment into the country is rising drastically this year, raising concerns over inflation because large parts of the FDI are unaccounted for. FDI, through the first half of 2008, grew 45.5 percent over the same period in 2007, to $52 billion, the China Daily reported. The problem, acco...
Despite the influx of tax rebates in June, U.S. consumer spending remained soft for the month, according to the National Retail Federation. The NRF said retail industry sales for June (which exclude automobiles, gas stations and restaurants) rose 1.3 percent unadjusted over last year and increased 0.2 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month. The Ju...
Schenker (Ireland) Ltd. has further boosted and expanded its senior management in the country with three new key appointments. Úna Hassett has joined the team as Human Resources Director and will be based at Schenker Ireland's Dublin facility. She joins from Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard where she was HR Manger Ireland for the last ten years. She als...
The Far Eastern Freight Conference has for the second time this year adjusted downwards its members' volumes for 2008. As a consequence of the changes, the FEFC lines' westbound volumes for the five-month period to the end of May are now listed as 4.03 million TEUs, instead of the 4.05 million TEUs previously reported. The year-on-year westbound incre...
Mid-Ship Group has promoted Patrick Krebs to senior vice president of Mid-Ship Marine. Krebs, who joined the Port Washington, N.Y.-based company in 1988, has worked with Mid-Ship's various departments involved with barging, trucking, rail and warehouse management to promote the concept of integrated services, the company said in a July 14 statement. ...
The Waterways Council has hired Cornel J. Martin to serve as its next president and chief executive officer, effective Aug. 1. Martin replaces R. Barry Palmer, who retires from the Washington-based organization at the end of the year. The Waterways Council lobbies lawmakers and policy makers to support a modern and well-maintained national system of p...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
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