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Gateway Issue 2, 2010

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Commentary

  • Getting ocean cargo moving again
  • Business Technology and Customer Innovation:  Two sides of the same coin

Transportation

Air

  • Air-cargo experts see traffic recovering to 2007 peak by end of year
  • US cargo screening deadline looms for airlines
  • Scanning and screening
  • Driving efficiencies and improving competitiveness

Sea

  • Report says global ocean container trade will grow around 11% in 2010
  • US ports climb out of shipping slump
  • Container traffic at Chinese ports reached an all time high in first quarter
  • Meanwhile, at the port of Rotterdam and Antwerp
  • Foldable shipping containers try to stack up

Supply Chains and Logistics

  • Wind Systems:  Engineering solutions can mitigate increasingly complex infrastructure problems, allowing you to eliminate risk from your wind project before transportation begins
  • Global logistics and exprses market to reach US $4 tr by 2013
  • How the US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act could forever change the supply chain

Global Trade Management

  • BDP/Centrx Compliance Seminar
  • BDP Singapore awarded BizSAFE Enterprise Star Accreditation
  • Companies outsourcing compliance as trade, security regulations increase
  • Insurance, long considered a financial side issue, is moving closer to center stage

Business Factors

  • Growing confident
  • US exports to China remain strong
  • The power of yuan
  • Too much, too soon?
  • Onshoring or reshoring – will it add up to success?

Sectors

  • Chemicals
  • Retail/Consumer Goods
  • Life Sciences/Healthcare

Region Watch / Country Profiles

  • China
  • India
  • Brasil

Green

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