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L & T: STUDIES & REPORTS
* USA - Trucking industry's role in freight movement will continue to grow
Akron,OH,USA -Modern Tire Dealer -Nov 20, 2006: -- Trucks will move 69.2% of the United States' freight by the year 2011 and 69.5% by 2017, according to the American Trucking Associations' recently published U.S. Freight Transportation Forecast to 2017... The report also projects "robust growth in rail intermodal and air freight," according to ATA officials...
* USA - High tech logistics to boom ahead of holidays
USA -Transport Intelligence -20 Nov 2006: -- Companies involved in high tech logistics, including air cargo operators, freight forwarders and express operators are likely to enjoy strong increases in volumes in advance of the holiday season. Sales of semiconductors, which go in to all consumer electronics goods, are growing strongly... According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) global chip sales rose to $21.4 billion, an increase of 9.3 percent from September 2005, and a 4.2 increase from the $20.5 billion reported in August 2006...
* UK - Diversification key to Japanese shipping lines success
UK -Transport Intelligence -20 Nov 2006: -- The big three Japanese shipping and logistics companies are bucking the trend of a depressed container shipping market by expanding aggressively into other areas of shipping and logistics, with all three announcing higher profit forecasts for the end of 2006-7... Effectively what the Japanese have done – led by NYK- is pursued a portfolio strategy of niche markets, which now include considerable non-shipping businesses. However this leaves their comparatively small container businesses looking vulnerable in a consolidating sector...
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