Despite carrying 90 percent of the planet's trade, nobody has mapped the network of links between the world's ports. Until now.
The International Maritime Organization based in London estimates that 90 percent of the world's trade is moved around the planet by sea. Given the fascination that complexity scientists have with rail, air and road networks, it seems strange that so little attention has been paid to the maritime network.
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Washington, DC - The study shows that as the U.S. enters a period of low growth in gasoline consumption, the combination of new global refining centers and the rising costs imposed by the legislation will distort the competitive position of domestic refiners and could idle and bring permanent closure to as much as 8 million barrels per day (mb/d) of the nation’s 17.5 mb/d of domestic refining capacity. Direct and indirect job losses could rise to 400,000 across the 2015-2030 forecast period.
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MIAMI, - Charlotte Gallogly, president of the World Trade Center Miami, is reporting record sales for three signature World Trade Center Miami events scheduled for early November (http://www.worldtrade.org) in Miami: the 12th Americas Food & Beverage Show, 10th Air Cargo Americas and 4th SeaCargo Americas. The three international events, targeting food and beverage executives and aviation and maritime CEOs and regulators, are designed to promote and facilitate multi-lateral trade, with a focus on the Americas.
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 Cheetah Software Systems, Inc. has announced the Customer Visibility System, a new addition to the Cheetah solution that offers a powerful competitive advantage to delivery and LTL carriers.
Westlake Village, CA - Cheetah Software Systems, Inc. has announced the Customer Visibility System, a new addition to the Cheetah solution that offers a powerful competitive advantage to delivery and LTL carriers. Today's carriers must provide accurate, relevant, real-time order status information to their customers that can be quickly and easily accessed. Cheetah Customer Visibility provides this information by integrating seamlessly in the Cheetah Freight and Cheetah Delivery solutions, giving end-customers the ability to easily and immediately determine order status, driver location, ETAs, and more.
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HOUSTON,TX - Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P., an industry leader among pipeline and terminal providers, has selected the Syntex IMPACT ERM(R) Suite as its company-wide QHSE management solution. Syntex Management Systems, Inc., the world's leading provider of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), will implement its highly configurable and robust IMPACT ERM(R) Suite software solution, providing Sunoco Logistics with a single platform for incident tracking, action item management and trends analysis to identify proactive QHSE performance improvements.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn.- Inventory Locator Service,® LLC (ILS), the most active business-to-business e-marketplace for the aviation, defense and marine industries, is pleased to announce the release of a new suite of Supply Chain Management solutions: ILS Procurement Management, ILS Inventory Management, and ILS Sales Management. Leveraging state of the art technology, ILS is able to offer this suite of services at a low cost of entry, allowing customers to scale the solution to fit their business size and needs and pay on a fixed-cost subscription basis. An additional offering, ILS MRO Management is currently in development.
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