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Opinion * Canada - 10 reasons why the transportation world is becoming increasingly flat
Ont,CAN -Truck News, by Dan Goodwill (*) -23 Feb 2007: -- In Thomas Friedman’s award winning book “The World is Flat,” he describes how the world’s competitive playing field has been leveled by a series of historic events. In this article I would like to outline the top ten developments that are flattening the transportation world for shippers and carriers:
1. Increased Customer Demands for Speed to Market and Supply Chain Reliability...
2. Increasing Requirements for Security
3. Ongoing Capacity Shortages
4. Fuel Cost Increases
5. Increase in Global Trade, specifically trade with China
6. Outsourcing
7. Expansion of Carrier and Logistics Company Service Portfolios
8. Logistics Industry Consolidation
9. Technological Innovation
10. U.S. Currency Devaluation
(*) Dan Goodwill is president of Dan Goodwill & Associates Inc. He has over 20 years of experience in the logistics and transportation industries in both Canada and the United States. Dan has held executive level positions in the industry including president of Yellow Transportation’s Canada division, president of Clarke Logistics (Canada’s largest Intermodal Marketing Company), general manager of the Railfast division of TNT and vice president, sales & marketing, TNT Overland Express.
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