Information technology solutions provider NIIT Technologies will join hands with the Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats) to market a state-of-the-art automated air cargo handling system to airports around the world.

Betting on the introduction of the Goods & Services Tax (GST) regime by April 2010, logistics players in the country had planned mega investments. Now, the government has hinted at a delay in the implementation of GST.

Bharti Enterprises is one of India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, agri-business, financial services, retail and manufacturing. Bharti Airtel, a group company, is one of Asia’s leading providers of telecommunications services.

Each country in the Asian region needs to make efforts to form a “reverse logistics” network in tune with the expanding green industry, an economic expert said yesterday.

We have 70 stores now, which we plan to increase to 200 in one year. Most of these these would be under our brand ‘Easy Day’. We already have ‘Easy Day’ neighbourhood stores in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, and compact hypermarkets called ‘Easyday Market’ in Punjab.

When Warren Buffett recently invested $ 26 billion to acquire full control of the Burlington Northern Railroad in the United States, his investment was less about transportation in America, but far more about confidence in international trade and the value of logistics infrastructure as the global economy gradually builds momentum to break away from the great recession. When fully evaluated, this decision has significant implications for India.

Till recently, the logistics activities of AP Moller-Maersk Group were managed under two brands — Maersk Logistics (for supply chain management services) and Damco (for freight forwarding services).