Entries Tagged 'Issue 13 December 2008' ↓
by Kathryn SemcowDecember 1st, 2008 — Interview, Issue 13 December 2008
Mix one part contract logistics and one part freight management and what do you get? One of the world’s largest networks with presence scattered around the world.
Gianfranco Sgro, President, CEVA Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa and Shamsudeen Ahmed, Regional Director, CEVA
What’s in a name these days? It is very easy to lose track of company titles amidst the infinite consolidation happening in the market. First we had TNT, until private equity group Apollo Management purchased its logistics division in 2006, renaming it CEVA. Then, in mid-2007, CEVA merged with EGL Global Logistics and integrated it under the CEVA brand.
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by Jacob JosephDecember 1st, 2008 — Issue 13 December 2008, LOG.Cafe
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman, Dubai World
“A good leader is one who can connect a bird’s-eye view with a worm’s-eye view of the world.” That’s how N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor, Infosys, describes leadership. Having spent 12 hours with His Excellency Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman of Dubai World and its subsidiary companies at sea level in the Algerian port of Djen Djen and at 45,000 feet aboard this private jet, I am qualified to say he is someone with a very good view of the world from any altitude or angle.
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by Kathryn SemcowDecember 1st, 2008 — Interview, Issue 13 December 2008
Cargo 2000 is taking the air cargo industry a step above
Lothar Moehle, Regional Director EMEA, Cargo 2000
Lothar Moehle is a patient man. The Regional Director EMEA for Cargo 2000 seems to know that soon enough most airlines and forwarders will join his organisation, replacing airway bills with electronic data and sending regular freight status updates. “It’s just a matter of old IT systems, and to replace those can be quite an investment,” says Moehle. “Many companies simply have other priorities.”
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by Kathryn SemcowDecember 1st, 2008 — Innovation, Issue 13 December 2008
The Emirates Group software division is softening up to cargo
Duncan Alexander, Vice President, Mercator
Who would have thought that one day international companies would be using software developed in the Middle East? Innovation coming out of this region, and copied in others, after all, is mostly unheard of. This is not the case, however, for Mercator, the software arm of the Emirates Group, which is marketing its developments to airlines around the world.
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