NEWS Roundup
li & Fung and
owned electrical appli-
Hudson’s Bay
ance retailers in China,
announce
has started building its
Partnership
second logistics project
Hong Kong based in the Tongzhou District
exporter and consumer of Beijing. The facility
goods supply chain man- will cost RMB300 mil-
agement firm Li & Fung lion and has a potential
(Trading) Company and floor area of 81,461 m
2
.
the Hudson’s Bay Trad- The center is expected to
ing Company have an- provide services to more
nounced a global sourc- than 100 planned stores
ing strategic partnership in Beijing and its suburbs
for Hudson’s Bay’s four and to realize RMB 11
main retail banners, the billion in sales revenue in
Bay, Zellers, Home Out- 2012. Suning Appliances
fitters and Lord & Taylor. will have opened 41 new the capacity of carrying
ddS logistics
manager, Orca Traction,
Li & Fung Limited is the stores and re-opened 37 105.9 tons of goods, to
takes over Narval
Dolphin incvoicing and
world’s leading consumer renovated stores in De- its cargo fleet. This in- logistic Software Narval Transit. DDS says
goods supply chain man- cember. creases their capacity by French TMS leader with this takeover, they
agement company, man- 92%. They have also add- DDS Logistics has taken will expand their services
aging the supply chain for Greater Air Cargo ed new routes to Europe over the team and prod- for carriers and forward-
retailers. Capacity for China and the US, one from ucts of international ers. DDS will open a lo-
Southern Shanghai to Frankfurt transport software spe- gistics branch at the Le
Suning Appliance China Southern Air- and one from Shanghai cialist Narval Logistic Havre Port where Narval
starts 2nd Beijing lines, currently the largest to Chicago. Southern an- Software. TMS’s offer is currently based.
logistics project fleet in China, has added nounced plans to intro- will include their four
Suning Appliance, one two Boeing 777 jets to it’s duce four more Boeing flagship products in-
of the largest privately- brood, each plane with 777s by 2011. cluding the Narval sales
FM Inaugurates New DC
tions around the east China region. Unilever
now enjoys faster delivery from its factories
to the DC (because they avoid intra-city traf-
On December 3, FM Logistic held an in- state-of-the-art IT and safety systems, and fic), and because the DC is located near key
auguration ceremony for its new DC in an overall design supporting global-quality highways, Unilever also maintains lead time
Taicang, northwest of Shanghai. The initial DC performance (through-put, accuracy, se- for deliveries to retailers. FM will eventually
phase of the DC features 25,000 square curity). For its largest client in the new DC, build another 100,000 square meters of ca-
meters of warehouse space, cross docking, Unilever, FM distributes to retail destina- pacity on the site.
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