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The freight forwarding market has been a major beneficiary of an increasingly globalised world economy. The development of extended supply chains, integrating manufacturers, suppliers and retailers on a worldwide basis, has led to significant year-on-year growth in international trade volumes. Freight forwarders revenues - and profits - have surged and this has resulted in structural changes to what for many years was a conservative and stable industry.

These changes have included an unprecedented level of mergers and acquisitions from which a small number of global players has emerged. Many long standing brands have been subsumed: MSAS, AEI, Emery, Danzas, ASG, Wilson, Circle, to name but a few. In their place have evolved mega-carriers such as DHL Global Forwarding, Schenker, UPS Supply Chain Solutions and Kuehne + Nagel. As with the rest of the logistics market, private equity is also starting to play a major role in the sector’s development.

The levels of profitability in the market, its growth prospects and the asset light nature of freight forwarders’ business models have made the sector highly attractive to investors. The industry’s attribute of counter-cyclicality - that is, its ability to increase margins in times of economic downturn - gives it an advantage over other segments of the logistics market.

This is not to say that there are no clouds on the horizon. A cooling US economy would have serious repercussions on trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic trade, although the growth of intra-Asian volumes would go some way to mitigate this. In addition, freight forwarders have a poor reputation with some customers for being a low value adding resource, providing a range of commoditised, cost based services. Major challenges remain in overcoming these negative perceptions.

What information does Global Freight Forwarding contain?

Global Freight Forwarding contains a comprehensive overview of all the major trends and developments affecting the industry. The report looks in detail at the structure of the industry, examining in turn each of its constituent parts.

A major section of the report contains tables, graphs and analysis of the latest trade figures, examining the origin and destination of goods flows, by country, region and product type.

The report also includes the results of two recent usage and perception surveys undertaken by Transport Intelligence polling 300 shippers and freight forwarders. These identify, amongst other things, how forwarders must improve their service offering if they are to better align with their customer needs.

Global Freight Forwarding provides a range of market size and forecasts using a uniquely comprehensive methodology. In addition it provides market share for the leading players and ranking of the largest total, air and sea freight forwarders.

Finally, the report contains profiles of all the leading companies in the market providing financial, operational and strategic insight of the key players.

Market share, size and forecasts

Global Freight Forwarding includes market sizes, growth rates and forecasts broken down regionally (North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific) as well as by air, sea and customs brokerage sectors.

In addition, the report contains an exclusive and wholly independent source of market share figures. The report ranks the leading players in the total freight forwarding market as well as those in the individual air and sea freight sectors.

A major section of the report looks at the trade flows of goods using the latest published data. It identifies the major export and import markets, and the key trade flows by product.

Extensive shipper and forwarder surveys

Global Freight Forwarding contains two extensive surveys made up of 300 respondents. All parties involved in the industry, representing all the major companies - both shippers and forwarders were surveys.

The survey provides the latest insight into usage behaviour and perception of shippers; expected volume growth; the best rated freight forwarders and lists many of the key challenges which face the industry.

Company profiles

The report contains profiles of all the leading global freight forwarders. Information on these companies includes :

• Background;
• financial data and analysis;
• operations; services;
• latest news and strategic development.

Companies include: Schenker/Bax Global; DHL Global Forwarding; Kuehne + Nagel, Panalpina; Expeditors, UPS SCS; EGL; Nippon Express, Geodis, Agility, Kintetsu WE and UTi Worldwide.

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Russia Oil and Gas Sector: Realities, Priorities, Opportunities will cover the key trends in the industry, and government and major companies plans to develop upstream oil and gas projects in Russia; will specify future tasks for oilfield services, designers and builders of oil and gas infrastructure; present corporate long term plans for developing the downstream and petrochemical capacity. 

The conference focus will be placed on the dynamics of Russia’s investment and business climate and real opportunities for foreign involvement in upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas projects. 

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The conference will be attended by top officials from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, major Russian upstream, transportation, oilfield services, investment companies, leading experts and market analysts.

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As at mid-2006, women aged over 45 made up 21.2% of the UK population. This percentage is forecast to grow to 22.6% by 2012, and to 23.9% by 2021. This section of the population is made up of women with very different experiences of life — the older groups with experience of post-war austerity and the younger groups with `baby-boomer’ expectations of a comfortable and materially well-provided for, and long, life.

Financial expectations are different — the number of women in the 75-plus age bracket is 60.3% greater than that of men in this age group. Women have a much longer life expectancy than men, and many of them live alone on low incomes, largely dependent on the state pension. On the other hand, women in the 45 to 64 age groups have the highest average household expenditure of any age group currently in the UK.

Much of this income is self-generated: there are much higher levels of female employment in the UK now than there were a decade ago — and employment levels for part-time work, in particular, have soared. Many of these jobs have been taken up by older groups. However, women’s median income is still much lower than men’s, across all age groups, and many older women are still reliant on the income of a husband or partner for their lifestyle and level of affluence.

The Government is trying to encourage greater participation in the workplace by women — particularly in those areas traditionally associated with male employment and where there are skills shortages. The pay gap between men and women’s earnings is still unacceptably wide and a large factor is women’s occupational segregation into low-skilled, low-paid professions — so-called `female’ roles.

The difficulties for older women in employment are not easy to unravel. Various factors, such as older motherhood, an increased need to be carers for aging parents, and young people living at home for longer, all make it more difficult and complicated for women to remain consistently in work and to build up their own pension provision. Pension membership among women has also increased over the past decade — for part-time workers, however, membership is still inadequate. Among women aged between 45 and 54, economic inactivity is still high — double that for men; the major reasons given for this among women are ill health but also the need to care for family and relatives. It anticipates that, over the next decade, benefit reform will become a top agenda issue. The difficulties for people who want to work flexibly — for example, women carers, parents, and older people — will gain focus and lead to reforms, which will hopefully resolve the benefits/work conflicts and improve women’s working and pension prospects.

Women’s employment situation is, however, only one aspect of the overall picture of participation by older women in society. This report also highlights the fact that involvement in voluntary activities — either formal or informal volunteering — is actually increasing among older women (with a few exceptions). There is greater need for this as government care provision is becoming more targeted and more women are expected to care for elderly or sick relatives. The role of grandparents has also become more significant over the past few decades. Older women and men are more involved in looking after grandchildren while their parents work than were previous generations. So, while many older women are still not fully active in the workplace, their role in their community is still significant. Many working, and indeed non-working, women are also increasing their amount of caring or voluntary involvement, creating demands on themselves that previous generations did not perhaps experience.

Marketing to women over the age of 45 is, therefore, a complicated issue — since again, there is no `one group’ to be precisely targeted. This report suggests that positive role models — perhaps using icons aged over 50 — could be a strong strategy, even for the financial-services industry. As equity-release schemes develop and more women look to their homes to supplement their income in old age, the need to target these women in positive and non-patronising ways is likely to gain currency. Within clothing retailing, for example, the use of older role models (most notably Twiggy by high-street retailer Marks and Spencer) has already proved highly successful. Unilever has also turned its attention to those aged over 45 — so-called `real women’ — in its recent marketing of the Dove Pro Age range of skin, deodorant and haircare products. These trends are undoubtedly set to expand over the next decade as the current baby-boomer generation moves into retirement. The decade of the older woman — those aged over 50 and even over 60 — could soon be upon us.

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Demand for biofuels will expand almost 20 percent per year through 2011 to 92 million
metric tons, despite recent concerns about the impact of biofuels on the environment and world food supplies. Market expansion will be led by a more than doubling of the global market for bioethanol, with the biodiesel market achieving even more rapid growth. Other biofuels will also achieve double digit gains, though from a much smaller base.

Economic, environmental issues spur biofuel demand

The world market for biofuels has expanded rapidly in recent years as a combination of domestic politics, rising oil prices, increasing concerns about global warming, and potential economic opportunity have spurred a broad range of countries to pass laws that support biofuel industries. World bioethanol demand has benefitted from a powerful farm lobby in the United States that has succeeded in passing a renewable fuel mandate, as well as rising oil prices that have boosted bioethanol demand in Brazil. Growing concerns about global warming have helped stimulate both bioethanol and biodiesel demand in the European Union, while several countries in the Asia/Pacific region have institutedbiofuel programs as a means of boosting their local economies. Though protective sentiments will remain high, global trade in biofuels will continue to develop, as many countries in Western Europe, NorthAmerica and Asia/Pacific find that they cannot fully satisfy demand with domestic production. Despite, or perhaps even because of, the success of biofuels in recent years, questions have begun to arise about the wisdom of using biofuels as an alternative energy source going forward. While the impact of biofuels on world food supplies is expected to be a short term issue, the potential negative impact of biofuels on the environment could have longer term consequences. In spite of these concerns, though, countries’ overarching need for energy security and domestic economic development will continue to drive rapid increases in consumption, most notably in the large North American market.

Economic, environmental issues spur biofuel demand

World biofuel production will track increases in demand as most countries seek to foster domestic biofuel industries, both to reduce reliance upon imported oil, and to foster domestic economic development. This will continue to favor the development of cereal-based (maize and wheat) bioethanol capacity in North America and Western Europe, as well as sugarcane- ased bioethanol production in Latin America. Likewise, biodiesel production will center on soy oil in the Americas, rapeseed oil in Europe, and palm (and increasingly jatropha) in the Asia/Pacific. Next-generation cellulosic bioethanol and algal biodiesel technologies will become commercially signifi- cant in the longer term.

Study coverage

It offers historical demand data plus forecasts for 2011 and 2016 by type and application in 6 regions and 17 countries worldwide. In addition, the study assesses key technologies, evaluates market shares and profiles 29 global competitors.

Table of Content

Executive Summary
1 Summary Table
Maket Environment
Macroeconomic Overview
Demographics
World Petroleum Industry Outlook
Gasoline
Diesel
Other Fuels
World Motor Vehicle Trends
World Agricultural Outlook
Corn
Soybeans
Sugarcane & Sugar Beets
Other Biofuel Crops
World Fats & Oils Industry Outlook
Environmental Policy & Regulation
Global Warming
Food Versus Fuel
Energy Policy
Water Use
Competitive Alternative Fuels Outlook

LIST OF TABLES & CHARTS:
1 World Gross Domestic Product by Region
2 World Population by Region
3 World Motor Vehicle Park
4 World Refined Products Demand
5 World Gasoline Demand
6 World Diesel Demand
7 World Corn Production
8 World Soybean Production
9 World Sugar Crop Production
10 World Fats & Oils Production

Technology

Processing Technologies
Enzymatic Hydrolysis
Fermentation
Transesterification
Pyrolysis and Gasification
Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
Technology by Biofuel
Bioethanol
Biodiesel
Pure Vegetable Oil
Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL)
Biobutanol
Biomethanol
Biocrude
Other Biofuels

WORLD OVERVIEW
Demand
Bioethanol
Biodiesel
Other
Production
Bioethanol
Starch-based
Sugar-based
Other
Biodiesel
Vegetable Oils
Palm Oil
Other
Other Biofuels
Regional Overview
Demand
Production
Trade

LIST OF TABLES & CHARTS:
1 Biofuel Demand by Type & Region
Cht World Biofuel Demand by Type, 2006
2 Bioethanol Demand by Region
Cht World Bioethanol Demand by Region, 2006
3 Biodiesel Demand by Region
Cht World Biodiesel Demand by Region, 2006
4 Other Biofuels Demand by Region
5 Biofuel Production by Type & Region
Cht World Biofuel Demand by Application, 2006
6 Bioethanol Production by
Raw Material & Region
Cht World Bioethanol Production
by Raw Material, 2006
7 Bioethanol Production from
Starch Crops by Region
8 Bioethanol Production from
Sugar Crops by Region
9 Bioethanol Production from
Other Materials by Region
10 Biodiesel Production by
Raw Material & Region
Cht World Biodiesel Production
by Raw Material, 2006
11 Biodiesel Production from
Vegetable Oil by Type & Region
12 Biodiesel Production from Palm Oil by Region
13 Biodiesel Production from
Other Materials by Region
14 Other Biofuels Production by Region
15 Biofuel Demand by Region
Cht World Biofuel Demand by Region, 2006
16 Biofuel Production by Region
Cht World Biofuel Production by Region, 2006
17 World Biofuel Net Exports by Region
North America
United States
Canad
Mexico

LIST OF TABLES & CHARTS:
1 North America Regional Indicators
2 North America Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
3 United States Indicators
4 United States Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
5 Canada Indicators
6 Canada Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
7 Mexico Indicators
8 Mexico Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
Western Europe
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
United Kingdom
Other Western Europe

LIST OF TABLES & CHARTS:
1 Western Europe Regional Indicators
2 Western Europe Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
3 Germany Indicators
4 Germany Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
5 France Indicators
6 France Biofuel Demand by Type & Application
7 Italy Indicators
8 Italy Biofuel Demand by Type & Application
9 Spain Indicators
10 Spain Biofuel Demand by Type & Application
11 United Kingdom Indicators
12 United Kingdom Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
13 Other Western Europe Indicators
14 Other Western Europe Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
Asia/Pacific
China
Malaysia
India
Japan
Indonesia
Other Asia/Pacific
LIST OF TABLES & CHARTS:
1 Asia/Pacific Regional Indicators
2 Asia/Pacific Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
3 China Indicators
4 China Biofuel Demand by Type & Application
5 Malaysia Indicators
6 Malaysia Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
7 India Indicators
8 India Biofuel Demand by Type & Application
9 Japan Indicators
10 Japan Biofuel Demand by Type & Application
11 Indonesia Kingdom Indicators
12 Indonesia Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
13 Other Asia/Pacific Indicators
14 Other Asia/Pacific Biofuel Demand
by Type & Application
Other REGIONS
Latin America
Brazil
Other Latin America
Eastern Europe
Polan
Czech Republic
Other Eastern Europe
Africa/Mideast
South Africa
Other Africa/Mideast

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