Entries Tagged 'Issue 7 May 2008' ↓

Secure Enough? Understanding and Managing Supply Chain Risk

We’ve all heard of the domino–effect – it’s when a small change causes a similar
change nearby, which then causes another similar change, and so on in linear
sequence. However, if that small change happens to be a disruption in the supply
chain link, the consequences are nasty.

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Heavy Vehicles on the Way

Scania R 440 6x2*4 Highline with  box-body and trailer. Sweden Photo: Dan Boman 2007  07769-017

Swedish truck builder Scania is establishing an industrial facility in Dubai for bodybuilding and equipping complete commercial vehicles and buses.

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Looking Forward

John Patullo, CEO of CEVA Logistics, has plenty of winning strategies and plans to take his company forward

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John Patullo, CEO, CEVA Logistics

 

At the end of 2005, TNT announced its intention to sell its activities in contractual logistics. At the end of 2006, they were yielded to the investment company Apollo Management, which immediately renamed them CEVA Logistics. Then, in August 2007, Apollo bought the American group of forwarding EGL. Four days later, John Patullo was named Chief Executive Officer of CEVA Logistics.

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