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| Supply chain vendors slow to use social media |
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
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The use of social media by business-to-business suppliers and vendors for their customer relationship management (CRM) is not widespread, but those who have developed a social media CRM aspect are seeing better customer experiences and benefits according to a new study by Kemp Goldberg Partners and IDG Research Services. The researchers surveyed 150 companies from more than a dozen business-to-business industries to see how their customers view social media when dealing with sup...
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| iPad3 launch to impact air freight shippers |
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Thursday, March 01, 2012
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Apple’s latest product salvo, the iPad3, is due to hit U.S. stores any day now, if the online rumors are to be believed. The often secretive tech giant hasn’t announced a release date, but airfreight activity in China, where the product is being assembled, suggests the new tablet launch is near. Taking aside Apple’s supply chain task of distributing to eager global markets, the launch of such an anticipated product can have knock-on effects for other shippers. &nbs...
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| Analysis: Asia-Europe scramble |
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
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In what feels like a continuing saga that’s sure to dominate the next year, the Asia-Europe “war” continues to evolve. At the very end of 2011, the latest shoes dropped, with the Grand and New World alliances, and Evergreen Line and the CKYH Alliance, forming two more super-groups to go along with the joining of Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM on the Asia-Europe lane. In case you’re keeping score at home, at the start of November there were eight m...
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| Transpacific graveyard |
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Friday, November 04, 2011
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Transpacific services are dropping away by the week as the liner carrier industry girds itself for the traditional winter slack season with some quite untraditional dynamics at work. According to statistics from American Shipper liner research affiliate ComPair Data , 11 percent of eastbound transpacific capacity has been withdrawn since the start of July. There’s now an estimated 355,000 TEUs of weekly allocated capacity, compared to nearly 400,000 TEUs in early July. &...
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| Exports remain life preserver |
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
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Few options available for getting financial houses in order. Walter Kemmsies chief economist, Moffatt & Nichol Although the U.S. economy is officially in a growth phase, in reality the downturn engendered by the Great Recession has not ended, mostly because structural problems of the U.S. economy haven’t been resolved. Likewise, across the Atlantic, structural problems of the Mediterranean economies are not being addressed. Economic growth trends remain divergent ...
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| Analysis: Daily Maersk a tough act to follow |
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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Maersk Line sent another shot across the liner carrier industry's bow on Monday with the pending introduction of its Daily Maersk product, which will provide shippers daily cutoffs in four key Asian origin ports connecting to three key northern European ports from the end of the October. The announcement was as audacious as it was ambitious, with Maersk Line Chief Executive Eivind Kolding postulating that it would be virtually impossible for any of its competitors to prov...
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