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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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