Logistics Management - September 1, 2001

When pharmaceutical companies Astra AB of Sweden and Zeneca Group PLC of the United Kingdom decided to merge in 1999, James Kulda, director of customer relations and services, figured that combining operations for the two huge global drug-manufacturing companies would be complicated. How right he was.

• Columns
• Bohman on Pricing
• Fuel surcharges are not all created equal
• Copacino on Strategy
• The more things change, the more they stay the same
• Currie on Hazmat
• Incident reporting may soon get more complicated

• Departments
• Market Watch
• Recent Price Trends in Transportation Services
• New Products and Services
• New Products & Services
• Up Front
• An executive summary of industry news
• Viewpoint
• Managing for the recovery

• Features
• Giants of Shipping
• When the Bear comes to Call
• Global Logistics
• NAFTA's Alphabet Soup
• Logistics Technology
• Information Gap
• Logistics and E-Commerce
• Pots of gold
• Transportation Intermediaries
• Mergers in Transit

• News
• Air Freight
• Planes grounded, but Emery maintains operations
• Border Lines
• Border Lines
• Distribution
• Ford to restructure parts network
• Logistics Briefing
• People
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• Maritime
• Industry, government disagree on port security
• People
• UPS chief Kelly to retire
• Resources
• On your desktop: SupplyChainLinkExpo

• Supplement
• European Supplement
• Express services unite Europe: European Logistics Supplement