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Date: (01-05-2011)
Seafreight
Container ship – New frontier
At the beginning of 2011, Maersk Line announced the huge project of Triple E container ships. These ships can carry 18,000 TEU, which will be the largest container ships in the world as well as attain the operating limitation of container shipping.
The recent history of liner shipping was described as one evolution and three revolutions. The evolution refers to the gradual growth in size of ports and vessels whereas revolutions are the changes in the system’s linkage and related expansion of its scope. …(Read more on Vietnam Shipper Issue No. 79)
Supply Chain Management
Maximize the Responsiveness of Your Supply Chain Today
Even during the best of times, manufacturers strive to build and maintain the most responsive supply chains possible. Achieving that objective in today’s challenging global economy is imperative, with budgets under fire, consumer confidence shattered, and companies struggling to stay in the black. …(Read more on Vietnam Shipper Issue No. 79)
Trading
Can P&G make money in places where people earn $2 a day?
As Western companies duke it out for a piece of the developing-market pie, Procter & Gamble is going deeper -- courting not just the newly rich but also the very poor. The company\'s vaunted R&D operation is turning up surprises. …(Read more on Vietnam Shipper Issue No. 79)
Airfreight
Shippers weigh benefits of air versus sea
Four years ago, Giovanni Bisignani, the director general and CEO of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), sounded the alarm to airfreight experts assembled at the IATA World Cargo Symposium in Mexico City.
The air cargo industry was seeing a growing number of shippers defect to ocean transport. Even though ocean vessels decreased the speed of cargo travel, shippers of every stripe were embracing the cost savings experienced at sea and heading to the oceans for a variety of reasons..…(Read more on Vietnam Shipper Issue No. 79)
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