Road freight transport: 80% in Europe

Paris, 17 Feb, 2015.- The statistics of the European Union are strong. In the last decade, a shift towards road freight transport has
been recorded, especially in newer EU Member States. The highest
in reases in the share of road freight transport were observed in
Estonia (23 percentage points), Poland (19), Slovakia (19),
Slovenia (12) and Bulgaria (12). In contrast, 11 EU Member
States presented a shift towards more environmentally friendly
transport modes, most notably Belgium and Austria. In 2012,
road transport made up over half of freight transport in all EU
Member States, except for Latvia, where railway transport
accounted for the largest share (64%). High shares of rail transport
were also recorded in Estonia (47%), Austria (41%), Sweden (40%)
and Lithuania (38%). Considerable shares of inland waterways
were recorded in the Netherlands (39%), Belgium (24%) and
Romania (23%).

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Eurostat: “Cloud computing services used by one out of every five enterprises in the EU28”

Paris, Jan, 07, 2015.-  Instead of building their own IT infrastructure, enterprises have the possibility to access computing resources hosted by third parties on the internet. This shared pool of resources is most commonly known as “cloud computing”. As cloud computing services are delivered on-line, enterprises must have internet access to be able to use them, which was the case in 2014 for almost all enterprises (97%) employing 10 persons or more in the EU28.

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Business Trends for 2015

Paris, 20 november 2014.-  Professor Arturo Bris in Finance, Business School IMD (International Institute for Management Development) in Switzerland, there is a high probability that a global crisis occurs in 2015. This academic believes there are eight reasons that could cause a fall in several major markets worldwide. Although many countries today are in full recovery from the financial crisis of 2008, “we should not be so complacent,” said Bris. He said it costs us to “learn from history and not act properly when faced with an imminent threat.” Note however that the scope for action is limited. Another important source of information, Supply Chain Digital has five business trends predicted for the year 2015:

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Radiografía del sector logístico por el V Barómetro Círculo Logístico SIL

Cargadores y las 44 toneladas   andsoft

Barcelona, 14 de marzo del 2014.-  Según ha informado, la 16º edición del Salón Internacional de la Logística de Barcelona este estudio ha contado con la colaboración de 776 directores de logística españoles de distintos sectores de la industria que han participando por su condición de miembros del Círculo Logístico del SIL 2014. Entre las distintas cuestiones a las que han dado respuesta estos directores de logística cabe destacar el hecho de si son partidarios o no de la implantación de las 44 toneladas de carga máxima en el transporte de mercancías por carretera, los aspectos que más valoran a la hora de subcontratar un servicio logístico, las actividades logísticas que suelen subcontratar, sus principales preocupaciones logísticas, el grado de inversión que realizan en prácticas medioambientales o las cualidades que más valoran a la hora de contratar a un profesional del sector de la logística.

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