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March 1st, 2008 — Industry, Issue 5 March 2008
The case for more sustainable aviation: challenges and opportunities in a carbon constrained world.
Commercial aviation is a key component of a globalised economy with few, if any, close substitutes in its ability to transport people and freight across the world reliably, cost-effectively and with minimal time penalty.
Unfortunately, it is also emerging as a key emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG) known for contributing to climate change.
February 1st, 2008 — Industry, Issue 4 February 2008
Shipping companies are increasingly using forward freight agreements (FFAs) to manage their spot exposure. Freight derivatives provide a means of hedging exposure to freight market risk
Today, products and services are sourced from where they are available suitably and cheaply; and sold where they fetch the best possible price. Even in this day and age, the primary channel of international trade has changed little with more than 90 per cent of total trade transported by sea. The increased complexities of modern trade have led to a larger amount of risks (and profits) both for ship-owners and their clients.
February 1st, 2008 — Industry, Issue 4 February 2008
International megastar IKEA and UAE-based Home Centre both want to fill UAE homes with furniture, but they’re going about it in very different ways.
Home Center warehouse
While some may see the massive construction of apartments and villas in the UAE as a nuisance, furniture retailers no doubt see a huge opportunity. Every room in every house, after all, is waiting to be furnished.
February 1st, 2008 — Industry, Issue 4 February 2008
Kewal Mehta, Country Manager, Cold Stone Creamery, and (right) Manoj Loya, General Manager, Galadari Ice cream Company. Both players believe the ‘ice cream experience’ is here to stay
February 1st, 2008 — Industry, Issue 4 February 2008
As the global halal food market continues to grow rapidly, logistics providers must ensure their standards match their commercial appetites.
The halal sector is definitely the flavour of the month in the logistics industry, even if no one can agree on just how big it is. Some say $150 billion, $245 billion, or as much as $570 billion – one source even goes as far as $2.1 trillion.
January 1st, 2008 — Industry, Issue 3 Dec/Jan 2008
They say a man telling a lie will avoid looking you in the eye. But ask Enver Moretti, CEO/President, Emerging Markets Region for DHL Global Forwarding, the deferred air, road and sea freight arm of the DHL Group, if he has ever played into local games of corruption when working in countries such as Angola and Nigeria and he has no problem making eye contact.
Enver Moretti, CEO/President, Emerging Markets Region, DHL Global Forwarding, combines upright principles and Italian passion to break his company into some of the world’s trouble spots
January 1st, 2008 — Industry, Issue 3 Dec/Jan 2008
Can the Middle East learn a lesson from the worst oil spill in South Korean history.
Authorities acknowledge that early morning Friday, December 7, a barge collided with the super-tanker Hebei Spirit, severely puncturing it some five miles off the coast of South Chuncheong Province. Roughly 80,000 barrels of crude spilled into the Yellow Sea before crews assembled to patch the substantial leaks.
November 1st, 2007 — Industry, Issue 2 November 2007
Naima Saleh Agha, Khaled Fawzy, Siva Vankineni and Faried Riza Nusyiran
Siva Rama C. Vankineni smiles as he poses for photos with his “Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year” trophy. In most pictures taken at the 2007 FIATA World Congress, he is surrounded by his three fellow nominees, who look surprisingly proud despite the knowledge they will leave the conference without the final prize.
November 1st, 2007 — Industry, Issue 2 November 2007
It’s safe to say security was one of the most talked-about issues at the 2007 FIATA World Congress. Richard Di Nucci with the U.S. Customs Service, speaking in the “100%Transportation Security Myth or Reality” forum, reminded the audience that his country will require all U.S.-bound cargo to undergo radiation inspections by 2012.
November 1st, 2007 — Industry, Issue 2 November 2007
FIATA’s new president William Gottlieb shares his views on everything from family to free trade.
When FIATA President William, “Bill”, Gottlieb joined David Kirsch Forwarders in Montreal, the company his grandfather founded a century before, he says he knew very little about the business. “I had a blank look on my face like most people do when they say ‘What do you do for a living?’ and I say ‘I’m a freight forwarder’.”
Gottlieb says he now tells people he’s “like a travel agent, but for cargo”. Gottlieb says he started out “being a runner, delivering papers” and eventually moved his way up to President.
