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Doing Business in Spain

QAD

Spain has served as a global model of freedom and human rights since the peaceful transition to democracy after former Head of State and dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975. The economy has turned around in the past several years, and Spain now enjoys strong GDP growth of 3%, exceeding the EU average. Manufacturing in Spain.

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Revolutionizing Freight Forwarding Using Tech with Lionel van der Walt

The Logistics of Logistics

He began his career in the South African Air Force and later spent more than a decade with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), where he held various leadership positions in South Africa, Spain, and the United States, including President of Cargo Network Services Corp., IATA’s U.S. cargo subsidiary.

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Transport collaboration starts with regional partners

Supply Chain Movement

International transport generates approximately seven percent of the world’s carbon emissions and, if things continue as they are, those emissions will increase fourfold by 2050. So claims the Smart Freight Centre, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), based on the International Transport Forum’s figures. By Marcel te Lindert.

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The Best Supply Chain Conferences of 2019

GlobalTranz

Conferences exist for a variety of purposes and supply chain specialties, including cold chain storage, transportation management , omnichannel best practices , and much more. Manhattan Exchange (Cost TBD) Dates: October 7 – 9, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain.

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Inditex Achieves Added Business and Supply Network Accomplishments

Supply Chain Matters

Practitioners, students and of supply chain management are likely quite familiar with Spain based fashion clothing retailer Inditex and its various retail brands including Zara. Further reported was the highest profitability performance in a decade in the midst of high inflation and disrupted global transportation and logistics networks.

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How to Harness the Economic Power of Logistics Clusters

MIT Supply Chain

The Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain, is based in PLAZA, Europe’s largest logistics park, and both organizations benefit from the relationship. The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, is celebrating its 10 th anniversary this week. Subscribe to Frontiers here. Logistics clusters are self-reinforcing.

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o9 Solutions Supports the MIT Global SCALE Network Supply Chain Challenge and Awards Winners for Second Consecutive Year

o9 Solutions

In order to prepare current and future supply chain and business leaders to tackle those challenges, the MIT Global SCALE Network and the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL) hosted their annual Supply Chain Challenge in the first few weeks of 2023.