Just as UPS is experimenting with 3D printing as a way to improve its position in the logistics market, GE Appliances (now owned by the Chinese durable goods manufacturer Haier) has made its own 3D lab in Louisville for prototyping new products with FirstBuild.
"Look at Holland and Germany, which have privatised their mail businesses and now have leading positions in international logistics," he says.
Positions in freight, logistics, hospitality, real estate and executive roles at regional headquarters of large companies are in high demand.
Additionally, some of the most valuable advisory positions — those involving experience in logistics or human intelligence or fire support — often go understaffed or neglected.
It certainly isn't the case in logistics, where gaining a position on the board takes a huge amount of tenacity.
Mr. Leshin was in the trucking business and eventually landed a senior position at a logistics company.
He pointed out that another community college on the South Side was already preparing students for open positions in transportation and logistics.
When I first started my career in logistics, female drivers weren't the only novelty – it was any woman in any position.
Most of his group's money comes from transport and logistics, with a strong position in Africa, and from petrol distribution in France.
There's irony in American President Lines' surging position in the high-growth business of international logistics.
