Archive for 'Logistics' Category
MARAD Launches America’s Marine Highway Initiative
20 February 2007MARAD, the Maritime Administration, is launching America’s Marine Highway Initiative to highlight and promote the U.S. Marine Transportation System (MTS) and along with the launch, they have created a new website to serve as a clearinghouse for the waterborne transportation community and to facilitate the sharing of information in an effort to promote waterborne transportation [...]
Andre Grikitis New Head of Intermarine
8 February 2007The board of directors of Intermarine has elected Andre Grikitis as its new President and Chief Executive Officer. Andre will assume the position held by Roger Kavanagh, founder and prior CEO of Intermarine, who recently died after a lengthy battle with cancer. Andre stepped into the role as Interim-President in September 2006. Prior to taking [...]
Requirements for Imports into Azerbijan
4 February 2007Doing business in Azerbijan will require a partner with a strong presence and understanding of what is required to import into Azerbijan. Azerbijan is a former Soviet Republic which gained independence with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Azerbijan has a population just under 8 million, their main export is oil, the majority [...]
Shipping Container Datacenters - Project Blackbox
9 November 2006Take one standard 20 foot shipping container, fill it with everything normally found in a state-of-the-art datacenter and what do you have? Project Blackbox, a Sun Microsystems project designed to create a complete portable datacenter, easily shipped anywhere and ready to go on arrival.
Project Blackbox packages compute, storage, and network infrastructure capabilities into scalable, modular [...]
Bangladesh trade halted
2 September 2006Imports and exports in and out of Bangladesh have been suspended due to a protest by a newly organized group calling themselves the Chittagong Feeder Trade Commitee (CFTC). Apparently, the CFTC imposed a 130 dollar surcharge due to port congestion which prompted action by the high court. Read the rest of the article here at Lanka Business Online. [...]
