NEWS Roundup
products. Kodak previously an- sales in the first year. The Hong will be installed at Lerentang’s has imposed restrictions on
nounced expansion of customer Kong-based company funnels 20,000 sqm regional DC in shipments of certain dangerous
service and internal operations clothes, toys and sporting goods Zhengding, near Shijiazhuang goods during the 2010 Shanghai
in Xiamen, and last August re- to brand-name retailers includ- City and will be integrated with World Exposition. The carrier
located its Southeast Asia-based ing Kohl’s, Target, Marks and their automated storage and re- announced that from April 15
Logistics center to Xiamen. Spencer and Talbots. Originally trieval systems (ASRS) including to November 15 all port termi-
conveyors and a pick-to-light nals located in the middle and
China’s largest logis-
system. It will also integrate with upstream parts of the Huangpu
tics park to be built in
Lerentang’s host ERP system. River are prohibited from han-
Changsha
dling dangerous cargo. In addi-
ENRUI International Logis-
Fears of Notebook PC
tion, all port terminals, except
tics Centre, the largest one of its
shortage grow
for Yangshan terminals, will be
kind in China, has started con- A leading Taiwanese laptop prohibited from handling dan-
struction at Jinxia Logistics Park maker has warned that labor gerous cargo from April 30 to
in central China’s Changsha City shortages in China’s booming October 31. Furthermore, the
in Hunan province. The RMB3.8 coastal cities could affect the export of fireworks at WaiGao-
billion (US$560 million) facility
William K. Fung, Group
supply of computers amid an Qiao (WGQ) terminals will re-
Managing director Li&Fung
covers 133 hectares with a total
Limited
expected surge in world demand. quire local authority’s approval
construction area of two million The labor situation could also on a per voyage basis. APL rec-
sqm and will have the largest a company that connected buy- lead to shortages of components ommended its customers “exer-
scale and the most comprehen- ers and sellers, in recent years Li ranging from memory chips to cise caution when accepting pro-
sive range of logistics services & Fung has expanded to control hard drives to computer cases. hibited dangerous cargo as there
for industrial raw materials and more and more of the supply He said the labor shortfall could is no recourse when the vessel
finished products in China. The chain, from logistics to produc- worsen following the Lunar New will arrive between the prohib-
unique project is planned to in- tion to product design. Last Year holiday because many fac- ited periods.”
clude a traffic network of high- year it took over Liz Claiborne’s tory workers visiting their home
ways, railways, waterways and sourcing arm; in October it towns might not return to the
China Post logistics
air transport. Plans also include bought U.S.-based Wear Me Ap- major coastal manufacturing
selects RedPrairie WMS
service areas to handle steel, parel’s clothing and accessories zones where Compal and other
for Guangxi dC
chemicals, paper, building ma- operations, whose products are electronics companies produce Guangxi China Post Logistics
terials and equipment plus 1,000 sold at retailers like Macy’s. personal computers. Taiwanese has selected RedPrairie’s Ware-
categories of raw material and makers account for more than house Management solution to
services to provide manufactur-
lerentang chooses
80% of the world’s laptop out- direct operations in its 8,000sqm
ers and operators with products
Manhattan WMS
put by setting up assembly lines distribution center in Guangxi.
and services. Lerentang Group, a lead- in China to take advantage of Guangxi China Post was par-
ing distributor and retailer of the mainland’s cheaper labor. ticularly interested in managing
li & Fung to partner
pharmaceutical products based inventory at a granular level,
with Wal-Mart
in Hebei Province, has chosen
Shanghai bans danger-
with visibility into individual se-
Li&Fung has signed a new Manhattan’s Warehouse Man-
ous cargo shipments
rial numbers. The company also
non-exclusive agreement to sup- agement solution (WMS) as the
during Expo
cited access control and global
ply clothes and other consumer technology backbone to support APL, the container shipping capabilities as core purchasing
goods to Wal-Mart Stores Inc, a its distribution operations serv- arm of Singapore’s NOL, is criteria for their selection of
partnership which could gener- ing upstream and downstream warning that the Shanghai Mari- RedPrairie’s Warehouse Manage-
ate an additional US$2 billion of customers across China. WMS time Safety Authority (SMSA) ment solution.
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