Economic Logistics

(pressebox) Kempten, 04.09.2007 - Dachser - the international logistics provider - introduced daily scheduled services to as many as three new partners in Europe in its Food Logistics division at the beginning of 2007: to Corby Chilled Distribution in the UK, Delanchy in France, and Cavalieri in Italy. Corby is Dachser’s first partner in the […]

Saturday January 7, 2006
The Guardian
Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs by Lewis Page
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Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs: Blundering and Waste in the Armed Forces 356pp, Heinemann, £12.99
by Lewis Page 356pp, Heinemann, £12.99
So usual is it for weapons projects to be massively delayed and overspent that when the taxpayer has […]

BRUSSELS, Belgium: EU regulators on Thursday cleared German mail and package delivery firm Deutsche Post to buy British-based Exel PLC for euro5.5 billion ($6.48 billion), making it the world’s largest global delivery firm.
The European Commission said the takeover would see Deutsche Post significantly increase its market share for air freight forwarding in Finland, Hungary […]

The Ministry of Defence still faces big overspends, despite starting to bring procurement programmes under control, the National Audit Office has revealed.
It said it was unclear whether a fall in cost overruns last year marked the start of a sustained improvement in the MoD’s project management.
Defence procurement minister Lord Drayson said “progress” had been made.
Earlier […]

AMD (NYSE:AMD) welcomes the publication of an EU Procurement Guidance document by the United Kingdom’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) intended to help contracting authorities develop tender documents that comply with EU rules on non-discrimination in public procurement (e.g. EU directive .93/36). This publication follows similar documents already issued by the French, Italian, Swedish, […]