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Article: Europe is spreading its logistics wings: western European chemical companies are increasingly outsourcing logistics and transportation activities.(Chemical Distribution 97)
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- Chemical Market Reporter
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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Western European chemical companies are increasingly outsourcing logistics and transportation activities.
Outsourcing of logistics by Western European chemical companies has started to gain momentum, which is likely to proceed even faster over the next few years with the imminent introduction of a single currency in the European Union. This is placing increased demands on European distributors--even the larger companies-who are striving to set up parallel international structures to match the global operations or pan-European activities of their customers.
"The vast majority of European chemical companies are now contracting out large chunks of their ...