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China's Demand for Commercial Vehicles Expected to Soften
The pace of China's economy rose slightly in Q2'14, with growth of 7.5 percent on a year-over-year basis, mirroring the rate witnessed in the same period last year, according to the most recent China Commercial Vehicle Outlook, jointly published quarterly by ACT and SIC, China’s State Information Center. It includes an overview of the China economy and a review and forecast of China's heavy and medium-duty truck and bus markets, as well as analysis of OEM market shares within China.
Wave Shipping Debuts as Agency in Singapore, Australia
Wave Shipping, a new shipping agency, has begun operations with offices in Australia and its Singapore headquarters.
Kewill Issues Cloud-Based TMS Platform for Mid-Sized LSPs
Kewill has made available its transportation-management system platform known as MOVE on the Cloud, for mid-sized and expanding logistics service providers.
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CMA CGM Joins CSCL and UASC in "Ocean Three" Alliance
The CMA CGM group has joined with China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and United Arab Shipping Co. (UASC) in a new container service arrangement known as Ocean Three.
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Market for Automotive Logistics Seen to Have Vast Potential for Growth
Still growing, with Europe forecast to grow by 6 percent and North America by 5 percent, automotive logistics offers growth prospects but only for those logistics service providers who can exploit change. This is one of the main conclusions of the latest report from Transport Intelligence, "Global Automotive Logistics 2014".
FTC Requires Online Retailers to Comply with Same Shipping, Refund Rules as Phone and Mail Order-based Vendors
The Federal Trade Commission has updated a longstanding rule governing mail and phone-based retailers to explicitly include e-commerce vendors as well, meaning that online retailers now must abide by a 30-day shipping requirement or refund customers' payments if they can't.
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It Isn't Always Easy Being an Apple Supplier
Apple sold 150 million iPhones last year, each carrying dozens of parts made by other companies. That's why Apple is a perennial kingmaker among component manufacturers: Each time the company releases a model, some suppliers end up winners and others losers.
RFID Helps Macy's, Bloomingdale's Track Fashion Inventory
Macy's and Bloomingdale's vendors have begun tagging fashion items, such as social dresses and men's jackets, for all of the retailer's stores. The RFID rollout, for item-level inventory tracking, follows initial piloting of RFID for fashion apparel at several of Macy's stores within the United States. Macy's Inc. operates both Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores.
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IBM Rolls Out Cloud-based 'Watson' Big Data Analytics Tools
Described as its most important analytics announcement in a decade, IBM has launched a set of cloud-based data analysis tools using its Watson artificial intelligence technology. The company's goal is to make data analytics - and business intelligence based on big data - more accessible to anyone in the enterprise who needs it.
UPS Beefs Up Staff, Looking to Avoid Last Year's Holiday Delivery Problems
UPS announced that it expects to hire between 90,000 and 95,000 seasonal employees to support the anticipated holiday surge in package deliveries that will begin in October and continue through January 2015. Last year, all carriers were swamped with orders, many at the last minute, and many deliveries were made after the holidays.
Key to Multichannel Success Is Automation - and the Know-how to Use It
Automation may be the single most important issue for distributors across the country as they tackle the escalating costs associated with multichannel distribution.
Growing Use of Product Lifecycle Management Solutions Predicted Across All Industries
Discrete industry manufacturers' quest to reduce capital expenditure, shorten lead times, and improve productivity is expected to fuel investments in the global product lifecycle management (PLM) market. Growing emphasis on product innovation will also catalyse the adoption of PLM across all tiers of business.
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