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Trucking Markets * Australia - Last straw for container transport industry
After a number of weeks of problems, the situation at the port reached a crisis point over the weekend, with in temperatures hovering around 38.5 degrees
Sydney,NSW,Australia -Transport & Logistics -25 Nov 2009: -- New South Wales’ peak trucking industry body, ATA NSW has urged the State Government to act on landside reforms at Port Botany, following another week of delays at DP World’s terminal... Chair of ATA NSW’s Container Section Sub-Committee, Mike Moylan, said the weekend’s situation was the final straw for the trucking industry... Despite several requests, the stevedores refused to make today a storage-free day because of the maritime union’s stop-work meeting, which stopped all deliveries for hours this afternoon... But just to add insult to injury, after bringing the matter up last week of storage applying today with the MUA stoppage... (Photo by Greg Wood/AFP, from abc.net.au: The TWU wants Patrick to set up facilities for waiting truck drivers to offload their deliveries)
* Germany - DHL Eyes Sale of French Parcel Business
Francfurt,Germany -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Nov 24, 2009: -- Unit to lose $90 million in 2009; two French groups seen as likely buyers... Deutsche Post DHL, the global mail and logistics company, is seeking to sell its loss-making French parcel delivery business... The parcel unit, which employs around 3,500 of DHL's 14,000 strong French payroll, is expected to book an operating loss of around $90 million this year on revenue of $525 million... Unions, which revealed DHL's plans, said a sale likely will result in 1,000 to 1,500 job losses and could have a negative effect on the German company's other operations in France, including express and freight transport... Mory Groupe, a leading French logistics company with 7,000 employees and 2008 revenue of $1.35 billion, and Caravelle, a Paris-based private investment group, have emerged as the most likely buyers for the business...Labels: trucking markets worldwide
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