International News
Key Supply Chain Success Factors in 2010
Businesses must now approach the marketplace with a new mindset and refine their supply chains, according to i2 Technologies – to be prepared for upward demand trends in 2010, while managing to minimize their exposure to financial risks in a market that will still be characterized by uncertainty.
In addition to helping organizations be lean and [...]
FedEx Launches Expedited Delivery Service
FedEx Express has launched FedEx International Next Flight, an expedited delivery service from the UK and Ireland to most worldwide locations. The service will be the fastest FedEx service for customs-cleared, door-to-door delivery of urgent international shipments.
FedEx International Next Flight will be available to more than 220 countries and territories, with shipments moved via commercial [...]
UPS Estimates 22 Million Packages will be delivered in One Day
UPS has circled Monday, December 21, on the calendar as its busiest day of the year when the company anticipates delivering approximately 22 million packages worldwide.
That is about a 40 percent increase over normal daily delivery volumes. For the entire holiday peak season – stretching from Thanksgiving to Christmas –
UPS will deliver approximately 400 million [...]
TNT Opens International Gateway in Malaysia
TNT has increased its presence in Malaysia with the opening of a facility – its Penang International Gateway. Located at Kompleks Kargo Kedua, next to the airport runway, the integrated air and road facility – the first in northern Malaysia – will improve the transit times of goods passing through Penang and will increase the [...]
World Courier Opens Drug Storage Facilities in Australia and South Africa
World Courier has announced the opening of its purpose-driven investigational drug storage facilities in Melbourne, Australia and Johannesburg, South Africa.
“Together, these two continents undertake over 15 percent of current global clinical trials conducted outside North America, representing an annual estimated market of almost US$3 billion and a study frequency almost double that of China and [...]
Extremely gentle palletising with high precision by a beverage dragon
Elettric 80 Marketing Director Mikael Renström concludes that drinktec 2009 was a great success for the company, which made a great impact on the market through the live demonstration of a fully operative automated end-of-line chain, incorporating Elettric 80’s latest innovations for the beverage industry.
The Human Factor and Warehouse Safety
Apart from cost efficiency, an important warehouse management issue is safety. The human factor often causes risks and accidents that are hard to foresee. These can be limited effectively through Elettric 80’s custom-made end-of-line automation solutions.
The systems can automate parts, or the whole, of the end-of-line process for clients within the fast-moving consumer-goods sectors, from [...]
International – UPS Broadens Shipping Technology for Sellers on eBay
UPS has announced that all US-based eBay sellers using eBay Selling Manager Applications now have a direct, free connection from within eBay to the shipping system UPS WorldShip.
Integration of the shipping system allows sellers to import their eBay order information into the system and eliminate manual key entry. Sellers can easily export shipping data from [...]
