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Strategic Vision at National Foods

Iconic Australian company National Foods has a proud history, having invested heavily post milk deregulation, in state of the art milk and dairy manufacturing capability.
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ALC’s People Program of Work

In February 2009 as part of the ALC Annual Forum, industry again confirmed the area of ‘People’ as a nationally significant issue to the ongoing growth of the freight task.
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Intermec cuts time and cost for BP

BP Australia has rolled out a new Retriever Communications mobility solution underpinned by Intermec's CN3 mobile computer technology.
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Freightworks International becomes C8FREIGHTWORKS

As of the 1st of July 2009, the company known as Freightworks International became C8FREIGHTWORKS– just one of the companies operating under the new C8GROUP banner.
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Freight forwarding conference defies gloom

A record number of sponsors and over 100 freight forwarding executives from 34 countries will attend the Project Professionals Group annual conference in Corpus Christi, Texas in July.
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Financial failure tops supply chain risks

Financial failure poses the greatest risk to global supply chains say 75% of companies, according to the 2009 Risk in 21st Century Supply Chains survey, from global risk adviser Aon and partner State of Flux.
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Two out of Three Ain’t Bad

The decision by the Prime Minister and Premiers in Darwin to create single national regulators for heavy vehicles and for maritime transport is nothing short of historic according to the ALC.
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QR signs up with global coal giant Peabody

National transport and logistics company QR has announced an 11 year contract with Peabody Energy Australia, a subsidiary of the world’s largest private sector coal producer Peabody Energy.
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Efficient engines have halved energy intensity

The use of more efficient engines has halved the transport sector’s energy intensity over the last thirty years, figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently show.
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