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Datafield, editor of the mobile form application for iPhone, iPad and Android has joined the International Facility Management Association in order to keep strengthening its partnership with facility managers worldwide.

Performance Team is a reliable logistics services provider based in California. The company has more than 6.6 million square feet of state-of-the-art warehouse facilities to consolidate and deconsolidate goods, and a fleet of over 350 trucks to transport them to their target markets on time. The company’s efficient team members plan everything perfectly and ensure that all the consignments reach their target markets on time to enable retailers to better cater to their customers’ demands.

The Dutch economy perked up during the tail end of 2013, with a robust 0.7% quarter-on- quarter increase in real GDP confirming that a recovery is under way. We expect growth to accelerate in 2014, underpinned by a recovery in fixed investment and exports. However, we stress that the Netherlands' double digit (in % of GDP terms) current account surplus, leaves the economy particularly vulnerable if the eurozone r ecovery fails to gain momentum. This will feed into the fortunes of the country's freight industry also.

Seegrid Corporation, maker of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), was featured in Warehousing and Logistics International. Seegrid announced its strategic partnership with Topco Associates LLC, a $12.3 billion cooperative and leader in the grocery/supermarket industry, to provide vision-guided automated guided vehicles to Topco members.

Tires are an integral component of vehicles and are manufactured using raw materials such as natural rubber, nylon tire cord fabric, and carbon black. Rubber chemicals and synthetic rubber, including styrene-butadiene rubber and poly-butadiene rubber, are also used in manufacturing tires. Premium tires are high-cost tires which undergo several quality, durability, and speed tests, and are designed to deliver high performance. Premium tires are mainly used in premium class vehicles as they deliver improved performance, fuel efficiency, and ride quality.

MarketLine's Company Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Partnerships & Alliances and Investments reports offer a comprehensive breakdown of the organic and inorganic growth activity undertaken by an organization to sustain its competitive advantage.

As the makers of innovative lightweight route distribution solutions, Magline announced a new recognition program titled, Me & My Magliner! The Me & My Magliner program encourages customers, suppliers, dealers, and employees to submit photos and brief descriptions of route delivery champions using the Magliner hand truck. Magline is producing an 18 month calendar that will include photos of Magliner products and route delivery personnel in everyday settings. These are terrific people doing the work made easier with Magline products.

There are several important points to consider when it comes to hiring a luxury minibus for airport transfer or for attending any party. From affordable pricing to well-maintained buses and professional services, all serve an important basis of a Luxury Minibus Hire. In London, TSA Global is a reliable minibus transportation service provider that announces to maintain a fleet of excellent-condition luxury minibuses for hiring.

Nationwide freight movers have proved themselves through the years of dedication to customer service and hard work. Today Nationwide Freight Movers has grown into the well established trucking company. The specialized fleet of trucks is equipped to handle over dimensional and super loads, plus they are great at trucking all types of machinery and equipment for heavy construction, power plant, wind energy, and lift equipment. Nationwide freight movers routinely ship heavy haul and oversize loads all over the country for the specified clients.

Announcing the launch of FlightList Pro to the public and aviation industry in the U.S. and internationally, offering the only complete listing of every certified charter, cargo and air ambulance aircraft in the U.S. and 131 countries worldwide, including rotary wing, amphibians and airliners.

Cirkers announces to provide exceptional customer service for their art storage in NYC services. They are a leader in the industry for their highly skilled and knowledgeable staff and complete professional services, which sets them apart from other companies. In addition to this, they have experience working with all mediums and sizes of fine arts, antiques and other valuable belongings. All items are treated with the greatest care and attention.

According to the Hong Kong Department of Transport (HKDT), vehicle sales for the first four months of 2014 came in at 15,040 units, an increase of 6.1% year-on-year (y-o-y). This figure consists of new private car registrations, new goods vehicle registrations and new private light bus registrations.

According to the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), March 2014 auto sales in Thailand declined 46.7% year-on-year (y-o-y), to 83,983 units, bringing sales for Q114 to 224,171 units, a decrease of 45.8% y-o-y. Despite a rise in month-on-month (m-o-m) sales for the past two months, y-o-y growth rates remain firmly in negative territory.

We anticipate that growth in Brazil's freight transport volumes will outperform the Latin American giant's real GDP growth in 2014 and over our medium-term forecast period (2014-2018), across all modes. Continued growth in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nation's mining and agribusiness sectors will ensure that the road, rail and ports sectors will continue to experience healthy expansion, while air freight will benefit from the growing demands of the country's expanding middle class. Further, the sector will benefit from Brazil's role as a major exporter of a host of commodities.

Many people think of limousine service in connection to and from airports, and this causes them to miss out on other great times to hire a limo. To help dispel this misconception, Lion City Limo (http://www.lioncitylimo.com.sg/) today announced its new limousine services, including chauffeured limousine transfers. It also announced its recent site redesign, which makes it much easier to check prices and hire limousines and other vehicles.

We remain positive about the Pakistani economy, emphasising the strength of the recovery, the beneficial impact of IMF-supported reform initiatives, measures to overhaul the energy sector, and the upcoming privatisation programme. We are maintaining our existing growth outlook - GDP estimated to grow by 3.4% in fiscal year 2013-14 and forecast to accelerate to 4.0% in 2014/15, but believe that risks have tipped somewhat to the upside.

We maintain our cautious view for China's shipping sector. While the outlook for China's traditional economic growth drivers such as heavy industry and real estate construction remains cloudy, the outlook facing the more consumer-focussed industries is relatively strong over the medium term. Overall, though, as the traditional sectors remain the dominant drivers of the economy, we remain cautious in our real GDP growth outlook. We expect the economy to expand by 7.1% in 2014, before slowing to average 6.1% over the next five years and caution that there are downside risks to this forecast.

Magline, Inc. has developed innovative lightweight route distribution solutions for the last 100 yards of delivery to end users. Technology has changed much of the supply chain in logistics.

Our outlook for the Iranian freight transport sector in 2014 is that the country will begin to see a return to growth in volumes, in part due to base effects, and in part due to the more moderate stance adopted by new President Rouhani, and the loosening of sanctions against the country. Although the ports and shipping continue to face significant challenges, rail freight continues to see strong investment.

Oman continues to develop into a regional powerhouse for the shipping and transhipment of dry bulk goods such as iron ore. To this end a new port is being constructed at Duqm and new cargo terminals at Salalah and Sohar. The new Duqm port will also boast a new oil refinery. Further port developments include the announcement that all cargo operations are to be moved from the Muscat port of Sultan Qaboos to Sohar by the end of 2014. All of this is aided by Oman's position on the Arabian Sea, outside the Gulf, enabling it to offer shorter shipping lines than ports within the congested body of water. On the macroeconomic side, growth in the Omani ports sector will be supported by expanding GDP and rising private consumption.

Although the domestic autos market in Serbia is far from developed, we believe the production segment is set to establish its reputation as a highly competitive manufacturing base in the Eastern European region over the coming years. Its proximity to high-potential markets such as Russia, improving export ties with the EU and the hefty investments from Fiat will be key factors helping the production segment recover to pre-1999 levels.

The Polish recovery is strengthening, and has led us to upgrade our forecasts for this year and for 2015. One of the key drivers is growing external demand, which has boosted exports and begun to reduce unemployment.

Manila International Container Terminal (MICT) is set to hold the top position in Philippines' maritime sector in terms of container throughput in 2014, with BMI forecasting the continuation of steady growth.

The port of Constantza is forecast to see growth both in terms of both total tonnage and container throughput in 2014 in line with Romania's continued economic recovery and eurozone's projected return to growth.

We forecast that Iran will return to economic growth in 2014, with real GDP set to expand by 2.8% following our 2013 estimate of a 2.9% contraction. Container shipping also is set to take tentative steps to recovery. Risks to the upside to both of these forecasts are presented by the growing rapprochement between Iran and the international community. However, the country's shipping sector has been impacted severely by sanctions in recent years - another hit came in 2013 following the introduction of strengthened US sanctions on July 1, which resulted in all major shipping lines ceasing to call at Iranian ports. At the time of writing in April 2014, it appeared that shipping lines would be returning to Iran as rapprochement continued. However, this had not been confirmed and there were no indications as to when it was expected to happen.