Gefco would provide logistics services to GM Europe and to its operations in Russia.
Greg Burns, chairman and chief executive of PLS Logistics Services Inc. in Pittsburgh decided this year to ask 100 trucking company executives.
After establishing its expertise as a global provider of logistics services involving vehicle shipments, the company has reached into other industries: steel, machinery, heavy chemicals, energy, construction and consumer goods.
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In addition to drilling services, Transocean also provides provides well and logistics services through its integrated services division and also turnkey drilling solutions, planning, engineering and management services and competes with companies like Noble Corp and Diamond Offshore Drilling.
Among its offerings: thermal imaging devices, combat display workstations, air combat training systems and logistics support services.
Orbital comprises a portfolio of UK-based logistics and marketing services businesses serving the travel, tourism, education, charity, publishing and healthcare sectors.
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Halliburton consists of two major divisions, KBR, which provides logistics and construction services, and the Energy Services Group, which concentrates on support services for oil explorers.
It is expanding rapidly to 2nd and 3rd tier cities, setting up call centers and logistics, and enhancing customer services.
Recent Chinese FDI flows were concentrated in manufacturing, but there is growing interest in real estate, logistics, tech, financial services and infrastructure.
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The Jacksonville, Florida-based train and intermodal transportation carrier works with trucking and logistics companies to provide shipping services across 23 states in the eastern U.S. and Canada, reporting improved revenue and profit margins across the board for the fourth quarter.
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Champagne owns Champagne Logistics, which specializes in transportation services.
Genesis Energy engages in three business segments: Pipeline transportation, refinery services, and supply and logistics.
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Last week, Hargreaves Services, a coal-mining and logistics company based in Durham, bought the debt linked to secured assets that belonged to another big Scottish coal producer ATH, which was forced into administration in December.
Transportation outfits have been merging, acquiring and adding services to position themselves as full-service logistics companies.
The transportation and logistics company operates in North America with trucking and intermodal services for supply chain management.
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The company's industry segments are primarily financial services and insurance comprising enterprises providing banking, finance and insurance services, manufacturing, enterprises in the energy, utilities, communication and services and retail, consumer packaged goods, logistics and life sciences.
The 100-year-old UPS now has a broader array of services, including freight forwarding, heavy airfreight and logistics planning, and is taking full advantage of burgeoning international trade to fuel growth, says Bank of America analyst Scott D.
The 100-year-old UPS now has a broader array of services, including freight forwarding, heavy airfreight and logistics planning, and is taking full advantage of burgeoning international trade to fuel growth, says Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) analyst Scott D.
As a result, the industry growth clusters (aviation, specialized business services, life sciences, innovative manufacturing, and supply chain and logistics) have been gaining traction in our metro area.
In addition to its traditional services of letter and parcel delivery, the Post Office now provides services such as e-commerce fulfilment, billing and customer management, logistics and warehousing.
In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
He points to logistics companies, major retailers and mobile telecommunications as sources of innovation in non-financial services, and to genetically modified seeds as the most prominent example in agriculture.
Sweden for telecommunications, the United Kingdom for financial services, Germany for manufacturing, electronics and automotive, and the Netherlands for logistics.
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Taobao sells no goods, but supplies the services that make it easier for others to trade: payment, instant messaging and even logistics.
If they are lucky, countries have nationals in service with fluency in the right languages, but it's common for armed services to have to utilize local people, indeed raising issues of trust as well as cost and logistics.
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