Local shipping companies are striving to expand their market share in China & India to offset declining export and import demand from and to the USA & EU. Although Asian countries have higher purchasing power, Thai ports are still not ready to accommodate potential trade expansion within the Asian Economic Community.

Thailand’s logistics industry estimated to be valued at USD 70 Billion is certainly impacted due to the largest contributing segment of manufacturing adversely impacted due to the floods.

2015 ASEAN Connectivity and Its Implication for Indonesian Ports and Logistics Infrastructure

The 5^th Export Logistics Model Award 2011 (ELMA 2011) organized by the Office of Trade Logistics, Department of Export Promotion, Ministry of Commerce, has been upgraded.  It will now include the Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) model as well as the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

A recent ban on night flights ordered by an administrative court in the state of Hesse – Frankfurt is located in that state – will cause huge losses running into double-digit

After rapid development in the past half-decade, virtualization has swept the global IT industry to become a mainstream technology that is being adopted by a majority of users. Thanks to the continuous development of this technology, the IT industry has now entered the so-called “Wave 2” stage of server virtualization adoption in which organizations move from applying virtualization in basic, low-risk applications to deploying a large-scale, robust virtualized infrastructure for Tier-1, mission-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, and SAP.

Most agree that inventory management efficiency depends on speed and accuracy - while IT biz with a rapid turnover requires low operating costs.

Washington State has taken punitive steps to ensure fair play among overseas manufacturers and exporters to the United States.  Its recently enacted Unfair Competition Act is the latest compelling reason why companies need to observe local copyrights laws and why the use of pirated software should be avoided at all costs.

Thailand is still not fulfiling its economic potential due to a lack of trade facilitation, delays and poor project planning, a seminar heard.

With the introduction of light-controlled pick techniques in order picking and assembly, Danish company Danfoss has considerably increased process and quality assurance in the field of high-pressure systems. Ergonomic assembly workstations combined with an innovative order picking system and a direct SAP link-up mean that the SSI Schaefer solution offers a high-end equipment level for order picking and assembly operations.