By Talc Admin on
29/12/2009 11:58 AM
The holiday season is a time of reflection for many of us. The odd new book to read, the occassional discussion with friends about things that matter. Often we just move back into our daily grind in the New Year and the books and conversations are forgotten. The cricket and the bottom line loom large in our thoughts. Just sometimes an idea lingers....
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By Talc Admin on
21/12/2009 7:12 PM
Copenhagen has come and gone. The issues remain. The ten carbon questions raised by TALC in July 2008 are still on the books. Do you have answers yet?
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By Talc Admin on
11/12/2009 7:48 PM
Nothing can prepare you for leaving the place. You can't wait to be back on familiar territory and yet when you are, you miss the place. Hard to say why. There is a newness and a strangeness, a disturbing element and a sense that this place is going somewhere.
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By Talc Admin on
10/12/2009 6:49 PM
What a city! There are thousands of factories in the Pearl River Delta, millions of workers, and they all seem to be determined to stare down the GFC. The economists are up beat, the logistics companies enthusiastic. What could possibly be wrong with this picture?
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By Talc Admin on
9/12/2009 4:15 PM
The Shenzhen International Logistics and Transportation Fair is billed as the biggest in Asia. It just might be that. There are over 300 exhibitors and many foreign visitors. For a region that carries 10% of total world manufacturing output it has grown from a small rural village in the 1980s to a dominant city of 10 million in 2009.
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By Talc Admin on
4/12/2009 1:42 PM
We came THAT close to an announcement on a $180 billion transport plan yesterday. We only missed out by a splii motion and the defeat of a Premier! After a year of waiting and hoping, we are faced with more waiting and hoping. When will people in Government come to appreciate that industry needs certainty, long term planning and serious investment options. Industry does not need another Premier telling them about being humble, daunted, proud. caring, or being ready to "give it a red hot go".
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By Talc Admin on
3/12/2009 8:44 AM
The last week in Canberra was enlightening, if a little confusing at times. We now have a socialistic Labor Government supporting free capitalist markets through an ETS, and capitalistic Liberal Opposition supporting direct action through socialist government regulation; and the Greens not supporting anyone - apparently no CPRS is better than a less-than-perfect CPRS for the Greens. What does it mean for the rest of us?
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By Talc Admin on
2/12/2009 1:41 PM
When government says "transport" at the State level it almost always means "public transport". Commuters, not containers. When challenged some years ago that freight logistics did not seem to have the same high profile as public transport in the State, a senior politican was heard to reply "freight don't vote". I guess that just about sums it up - for now.
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By Talc Admin on
19/11/2009 3:35 PM
How many times have you been into a store, ordered a bargain, wanted the fantastic sales person to marry into your family because they were so good at what they did; and then waited and waited for the item to actually arrive? When it does arrive it's the wrong specification! What is it with the logistics of retail sales that causes everyone so much angst?
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By Talc Admin on
13/11/2009 1:55 PM
Remember the good old days of fax machines, phones that had cords attached to the wall, and computers that weighed more than a small refrigerator? Recall what our problems were? Running out of fax paper, buying really long extension cords for the phone and waiting for hours for the PC to warm up and process information. Well, welcome to the new era of on line collaboration and serious confusion. Now we have twitter, blogs, forums, wikis, web optimisation strategies - more jargon and more to misunderstand.
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