Power crisis in Q4 for Asia and Europe – and what this means for Logistics
How is the power crisis currently affecting Asia and Europe? China has already been hit the hardest in this current power crisis while thousands factories are currently producing at capacity limits to catch up on needed pandemic-related orders from around the world. The Chinese electronics industry in particular is already suffering from supply bottlenecks and […]
Q2 2021: Transport prices increase relatively stable
The producer price index for services is a business cycle indicator that provides information on price developments in numerous service sectors. This information is used for the analysis of inflation and its sources, but also for the deflation of value measures in the services sector. Figure 1 shows aggregate output prices for services in the […]
Fast Focus: Sunny Fernandes
Entering the UK only with passport from October onwards
Anyone entering the UK after 1 October 2021 will need a passport. The British Ministry of Transport has reminded us of this. As can be read on the Ministry’s website, a visa is still not necessary. An exception applies to those who are resident in Great Britain and have “settled status” or also “pre-settled status”. […]
Business Mergers & Acquisitions: Forms and examples
Definition and basics A merger is a contract between two or more companies in which a cooperation is agreed according to a certain pattern. This can be a cooperation, a concentration or a merger. Cooperation between companies is either a two-way collaboration for a project that one company could not handle alone or a strategic […]
Fast Focus: Juliane Linck
In the niche: specialisation opportunities in logistics
Many logisticians in the EU would probably agree with this statement today: If there were a little less competition, the situation would certainly not be worse for one’s own company. No wonder, the competitive pressure in the industry is very high – perhaps even higher than in most other industries on the continent. In view […]
Fast Focus: Yousra M.
Companies continue to rely on global supply chains
The current survey of 5000 German companies shows that most companies do not want to change much in their material procurement. However, in order to increase the resilience of supply chains, the expansion of storage facilities and the expansion of the supplier network are driven. 44 percent of companies in the industrial sector in the […]
Saloodo!’s MEA wins The Most Innovative Company in Technology Award
