Gennady Timchenko: Gunvor’s founder changed oil trading

Logistics and infrastructures. Gennady Timchenko’s motto over the years has been to improve logistics and infrastructures. The only way to do business for a “niche player” who wants to buy and sell competitive oil. When Timchenko founded the independent oil trading...

Logistical Challenges Facing Sudan Elections

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by the Khartoum regime in the north and rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), based in the south of Sudan, is approaching a decisive and possibly its most difficult-to-implement phase so far: the April 2010 elections....

Prisons + Tshirts = Jobs

Michael Norburyhttp://bringhomethepoliticians.comThe following is a comment I posted to a California newspaper's online Op-Ed complaining that the idea being considered to release 27,000 low risk and elderly prisoners was being unfairly opposed citing that just because the...

Trading: the keys of Timchenko's Gunvor's success

Very few people outside oil circles have ever heard of Gunvor, a Dutch company with trading desks in Geneva and Singapore, even though it is now the third largest oil trader in the world with an annual turnover of around 70 billion dollars and profits “in the hundreds of...

Obama Rumors: Kathleen Sebelius for Vice President

Stay tuned to any media outlet, barber shop, beauty shop, coffee shop, bus, train, plane, or automobile. The Obama VP pick rumors are bound to grow exponentially in the coming hours."We have a credible lead that Barack Obama will be announcing Kathleen Sebelius for Vice...

Blackwater: the Coca-Cola of Security Contractors, But Not For Long

Remember Blackwater? They're kind of hard to forget for obvious reasons, but not necessarily as well-known for others. But, take it from them, security was never "part of the master plan." Or the brand.Publicly,...

Former Indonesian logistics chief gets 10 years for graft

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - An Indonesian court sentenced the former head of the National Logistics Agency to 10 years jail for graft Monday and ordered him to pay million of dollars in fines and restitution.Wijarnoko...

METRO Group, Checkpoint Systems expand RFID `Tag It Easy!` program

""Tag It Easy!" is part of METRO Group's Advanced Logistics Asia (ALA) initiative to jointly enhance logistics processes with its Asian suppliers using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to track merchandise throughout the supply chain. Because many suppliers in the region...

VP asks major cities to develop mass transport systems

""We must develop ideal and low-priced mass transport systems as a solution to transportation problems," he said when opening Indonesia Transport & Logistics Expo 2007 at the Jakarta Convention Center...

Former Bulog chief collapses during court hearing

"The corrupt act he was accused of having committed in the importation of Australian cows for meat cosumption during the post-fasting festivities, Christmas and New Year 2001 had caused a loss of Rp11 billion to...

Circle K Launches New Authentic Hispanic Products Program in Southwest

""Circle K has been working with Inca and Core-Mark to launch this unique and authentic Hispanic program," said Chris Wilson, director of marketing at Circle K. "We have been looking for a consolidated program like this for some time. By offering complete plan-o-gram services...

The Draft / Military Conscription

POLL:     "I would support the introduction of the draft so my country could achieve world domination." "I would support the introduction of the draft to prevent an enemy country from achieving world domination." "I would oppose...

Truckin

" Change the speed limit and you reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced by commercial trucking. And you don't need a new clean air act to do it. Just the will to do it. Trucking Alliance Leader says "Canada could do better""

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Armed with a pair of high-powered binoculars and an infrared camera, the Georgia Army National Guard soldier can easily spot those trying to step across several strands of trampled, rusty barbed wire — all that separates Mexico from the promise of the United States.

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