Assumptions validated by railway and logistics experts within the SPECTRUM consortium.
Publicly organised collection by volunteers and economical railway transport logistics started as early as 1865 under the leadership of the notable industrialist Hans Caspar Escher (Escher Wyss AG) when the first modern Swiss paper manufacturing plant was built in Biberist.
Translated into military strategy by the overarmed Great Powers, as the historian A. J. P. Taylor liked to note, the imperatives of railway timetables drove the logistics of preëmptive mobilization.
He argues forcefully that it was "the earliest example of a truly modern war — fought with new industrial technologies, modern rifles, steamships and railways, novel forms of logistics and communication like the telegraph, important innovations in military medicine and war reporters and photographers directly on the scene".
SNCF, the French railway, has similar ambitions in logistics.DB AG will remain 100% state-owned, as will its subsidiary DB Netz.
Additional minor partners include logistics service providers, railway companies, distribution and trucking companies, big box retailers, ecommerce companies, municipal waste disposal, local farmers, local fisheries, and more.
At present, he says, it can handle only 40%.Mr Huang reckons that railway expansion will bring down logistics costs, which he says amount to 18% of GDP in China compared with 10% in America.
For example, the country's main anti-corruption agency, the National Accountability Bureau, has been stymied in examining the railways department and a military logistics and supply company, reportedly because of intervention by senior army officers.
