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April 1st, 2008 — Analysis, Issue 6 April 2008
Data from the 2008 Logistics Recruitment Annual Salary Survey for supply chain and logistics professionals shows respondents in the Middle East are obtaining higher pay rises, are more qualified, more multi-lingual and generally more optimistic about their careers than their counterparts around
the world.
March 1st, 2008 — Innovation, Issue 5 March 2008
Oxygen-hydrogen fuelled trucks are set to drive into the future, helping save the planet along the way.
Oxygen and hydrogen-injected fuel could be the fuel of the future for diesel-guzzling trucks across the globe. Several innovative companies are developing the fuel – which is already being used in gas generators and solar water heaters – for commercial truck use, and this will have a huge impact by economising fuel, improving horsepower and reducing emissions.
March 1st, 2008 — Innovation, Issue 5 March 2008
In an unprecedented move, a giant kite is now pulling a cargo ship across the Atlantic. And everyone’s looking out keenly for the savings in fuel costs.
A ten thousand ton cargo ship has just set sail across the Atlantic assisted by the pull of a giant kite, harnessing the powerful energy of the wind and reducing both fuel costs and polluting emissions.
The newly built cargo ship MS Beluga SkySails has embarked from Bremen in Germany towards Venezuela, where it will use a fully automated towing kite propulsion system during a pilot phase of testing.
Hamburg-based company SkySails, with the catchphrase ‘turn wind into profit’, has designed the wind propulsion systems for modern cargo vessels and super yachts.
Managing Director Stephan Wrage says the company is experiencing growing public interest against the backdrop of rising oil prices and the push to ‘go green’.
February 1st, 2008 — Issue 4 February 2008, Management
Taking advantage of their country’s strategic location at the crossroads of continents and cultures, two Turkish entrepreneurs are helping put the country back firmly at the heart of global trade corridors.
Throughout ages past, merchant caravans laden with silk, spices and precious gems travelled from China through Turkey to Europe along the famed Silk Road. Thousands of years later, modern day Turkey’s enviable position at the crossroads of Asia, Europe and the Middle East still makes the country a key hub in the transportation of goods around the globe.
