Archive for August 10th, 2005

Menlo Worldwide Named a Top 3PL Provider; Inbound Logistics Magazine Annual Survey Places Menlo Fourth Out of More Than 500 Competitors

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 10, 2005–Menlo Worldwide, a division of CNF Inc. (NYSE:CNF), is among the very best 3PL providers in the world, according to a survey conducted by the editors of Inbound Logistics magazine. As part of the magazine’s annual Top 100 3PL Provider Awards for 2005, Menlo Worldwide came in 4th place out […]

‘Green’ push by feds another shift in procurement

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Local businesses that sell to government may have to rethink the goods and services they offer thanks to a new federal emphasis on sustainable development.
The federal government has created the Office of Greening Government Operations (OGGO) to centralize a number of “greening” initiatives announced in recent years that have a direct bearing on the massive […]

Public procurement

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Optimum utilisation of scarce resources is the hallmark of good economic governance. But this standard of economic governance is never achieved in the vital sphere of government procurement in Bangladesh. Notwithstanding gradual privatisation of the economy from the middle seventies, government is still a big player in the economic scene of the country. Government […]

India Building A Military Satellite Reconnaissance System

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

India is building up a satellite-based Military Surveillance and Reconnaissance System that will become operational by 2007, allowing it to keep watch on developments in its area. “The program is in the advanced stages of development and is planned to be operational by 2007,” Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Parliament recently.
The system was […]