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Balloting is now started for the 11th Supply Chain Asia Logistics Awards The 11th Supply Chain Asia Logistics Awards is going to be held in Singapore this year. Join us now as our online balloting is started. The Mall King of India  In an exclusive interview Kishore Biyani, the boss of India’s largest retail conglomerate, talks to our Mumbai correspondent, Shirish Nadkarni on supply chain challenges One of the greatest success stories in the retail industry in India is that of Kishore Biyani, chairman and founder of the Future Group, which has today become the country’s largest retailer by size. Forbes refers to him as the Mall King of India, who operates the Big Bazaar chain of hypermarkets through Pantaloon Retail India Ltd, his group’s listed flagship company. Among the group companies is Future Supply Chain Solutions Ltd (FSCSL), the group’s logistics and supply chain vertical that professes to be India’s first end-to-end consumer logistics company. It was born a little over four years ago, from a need to have a specialised end-to-end supply chain for consumer products. Over the years, the company has developed competencies in managing the various operations involved in supply chains across different product categories, and delivers millions of pieces to millions of consumers on a daily basis. Please click here to read the rest of this article Build it and they will come  China's transport minister visited Felixstowe in the UK in the autumn Competition is fierce in the deepsea liner trades and European ports are jostling to create new infrastructure to attract Asian shippers, reports Katherine Si Leading port Rotterdam is entering the fourth and final year of building its new Maasvlakte 2 port area, a massive land reclamation project that will expand the port by 220 hectares. Construction work has included building a new seawall and elaborate connecting infrastructure for road and rail links to the new area via bridge and viaduct. Rotterdam forecasts that its container volumes will rise from 11.1m teu in 2010 to 18m teu by 2035. Of the latter, it is hoped that 3m teu will be transported by rail to and from the port’s hinterland – which stretches as far south as Switzerland and northern Italy thanks to the Rotterdam-Genoa rail corridor, Europe’s busiest north-south rail conduit -compared to only around 0.6m teu at present. Please click here to read the rest of this article Emirates SkyCargo widens its reach Emirates SkyCargo, freight division the UAE airline, is busily expanding its international network in a bid to achieve the same leading status in cargo as Emirates has on the passenger side. Central to its ambition are claims that airfreight links between Asia and the Americas are fastest and easiest via its state-of-the-art Cargo Mega Terminal in Dubai. During the past month Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) and Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) have became the sixth and seventh points in North America to be linked, via the Middle East, with SkyCargo’s network of more than 100 destinations worldwide. Daily flights from DFW and SEA will offer trade ties “not only with the UAE, but also with markets in parts of South Asia, such as China, South Korea and Japan, and numerous points throughout Emirates’ extensive network in India and Africa,” said Sam Reenan, senior vp-cargo. Please click here to read the rest of this article Correspondent Jason Jiang identifies challenges in China’s cold chain sector China’s food figures make for fat numbers. Domestically, for instance there are more than 2,500 large meat factories, with a combined output of more than 60m tons a year. Likewise there’s more than 2,000 large frozen food factories with an annual output of more than 10m tons. There’s a similar output of cold beverages made in the People’s Republic, while 8m tons of dairy products are made at home and a huge 44m tons of aquatic products are made in China each year. No wonder, then, as Chinese have become richer and consumed more - and more diversely – demand for cold chain logistics has expanded at an annual rate of more than 8%. The shocking statistic, however, is one to put you off your appetite. Official estimates suggest that between 25 and 35% of all meat, vegetable and aquatic products in China, some RMB80bn in value, are damaged during transportation and storage every year. The opportunities in this huge sector are still being explored by international cold chain specialists as Supply Chain Asia explains. Contact Features |
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