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New download: SCM Map Europe 2014-2015

Supply Chain Movement

However, the main growth in freight flows lies on the periphery of Europe and the Middle East is also continuing to develop, both for domestic supply and for distribution to Africa. >>Please click on the red button and fill in the fields to activate the green download button. It’s a mere drop in the ocean.”

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Market Monitor of Turkish domestic logistics market

Supply Chain Movement

The heydays of 2009 to 2011 may be over but Turkey is still a very attractive market for European manufacturers. Although exports are increasing, Turkey remains a net importing country specifically for energy, high tech, industrial and consumer goods. The oil price fluctuations are heavily impacting logistics costs in Turkey.

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SCM Map Europe 2013-2014

Supply Chain Movement

As two rapidly expanding economies, Russia and Turkey are large enough to warrant local production activities. The growth in intercontinental freight flows into Europe is primarily coming from the Far East, and particularly from China, although these freight flows are increasingly heading for eastern Mediterranean and Baltic Sea ports.

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Supply Chain Movement Q3: Control Tower

Supply Chain Movement

Right across the logistics landscape, control towers are emerging: platforms where information about various flows of goods converges and is analysed so that the freight flows can be optimised. Last year Turkey contributed Euro120 million to the Group’s Euros 8 billion turnover. > Download Supply Chain Movement on the iPad here. >

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

10 questions about Freight Spend Management. There are numerous ways a shipper can reduce freight spend. And freight costs are continuing to rise, pushed upward by factors such as globalized distribution and unpredictable fuel prices. This is an important aspect of managing freight spend. Choose country. Switzerland.

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Supply Chain Movement Q4: Cross-border

Supply Chain Movement

As two rapidly expanding economies, Russia and Turkey are large enough to warrant local production activities. The growth in intercontinental freight flows into Europe is primarily coming from the Far East, and particularly from China, although these freight flows are increasingly heading for eastern Mediterranean and Baltic Sea ports.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23-27, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Latest Use for a Bitcoin Technology: Tracing Turkeys From Farm to Table (WSJ sub. Sounds obvious, but in their quest to make a solution that is simple to download and configure, a vendor may end up with a solution that is relatively useless. Wal-Mart’s new robots scan shelves to restock items faster (Reuters). UPS announces U.S.