_IRF Road Scholar Program
___January 18-27, 2012, USA, Washington, This annual 10-day program introduces top transportation graduate students (recipients of IRF grants) from around the world to IRF members & the road industry leadership. The program offers an ideal recruitment opportunity for IRF members.
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_RORO Shipping Conference
___7-8 Febr 2012, Copenhagen, Optimising Environmental Perfor- mance & Financial Viability: Solutions for the Ro-Ro Fleet Ports & terminals: Discover exactly what facilities shipowners will require from ports in the near future; Find out what steps your peers are taking to prepare for 2015;
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_Independence days
____January 1, 2012
Cameroon, Independence from France and Britain. Haiti, Declaration of inde- pendence from France in 1804. Sudan, Independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956. January 4, 2012 Myanmar, Independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 |
AMERICA News
_Expeditors Int'l of Washington, Inc
__Expeditors is engaged in the business of global logistics management, freight forwar- ding and consolidation, for both air and ocean freight. Its gross revenues in 2010 were $5.9bn. It is a non-asset based carrier, not owning any transportation assets, provides brokerage and additional services, which include value added distribution,...
_Ford Model T and Henry Ford
__Ford paved the road for more than 100 years of truck-making, in 1908 the Model T is introduced for $825 (in 1918 standard Model T chassis sold for just $325). 15 million are produced through 1927.
AMERICA South News
_Trucking in Argentina & Brazilia
___Brazilian trucking industry is consti- tuted by approx 46000 companies, 95% of which are small and medium companies.
Trucking services in Argentina are operated on a free market basis with no government control over tariffs, with the main component for determining freight tariffs being fuel prices. |
__EUROPE News
_DB Schenker Logistics
__DB Schenker Logistics is one of the business units that operates under the DB Mobility Logistics sub-group of Deutsche Bahn. DB Schenker Logistics has three main operating divisions: 1.EU Land Transportation, 2.Air & Ocean Freight & 3.Contract Logistics / SCM (Supply Chain Management). In 2010, it had revenues of €14.3bn.
_Constantza Port container terminals
___Four container terminals operate in the Port of Constantza with a throughput that has registered an ascendant trend over the last 10 years. Constantza Port-Pier IIS is the new container terminal.
ARABIAN COUNTRIES
_IRF Middle East Regional Congress
__Jan. 8-11, 2012, Manama, Bahrain, The largest and most important IRF event in the Middle East in 2012, this regional congress will consist of executive and technical sessions featuring innovation, sustainability and best practices in the areas of road safety, intelligent transport systems (ITS), pavements, and asset management.
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ASIA News
_CIMC - China Int'l Marine Container
__The core business of CIMC is container ma- nufacturing with over 34 production bases in 11 major cities along the coast of China. CIMC is the only supplier who can provide the whole series containers including dry van, reefer, tank and various special containers with complete own intellectual property rights.
_China truck industry was booming
__Now Chinatrucks is setting up a team to visit China trucks industry. If you have any idea of purchasing China trucks or some other business cooperation plans, please don't hesitate to join our Visiting China Trucks Industry Tour
OCEANIA
_Intermodal Asia 2012
__10th Febr. 2012 Melbourne, Rialto, Australia, Two days Exhibition of 70 int'l shipping lines, ports, container termi- nal equipment and services suppliers taking place next to the Conference and 30 world-class experts container transportation and logistics, the world's leading ports, shippers, cargo owners, shipping lines, freight forwarders terminal operators, railway operators and port-rail equipment services suppliers....
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