Where have all the truck drivers gone?

When people talk about the transport and logistics market, they usually think trucks, ships, planes and trains or even roads, airports and ports. What won’t be at the front of their minds are the people required to operate these assets, or the managers who plan the movement of goods across global supply chains.

This is not merely an inconvenient fact. Right across the world, the industry is being undermined by a skills shortage which is impacting efficiencies, not just for the transport and logistics sector but also for the manufacturers and retailers who use their services.

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Regional and Country Competitiveness

The European Union (EU) is going through one of the most difficult periods since its establishment, with multiple challenges facing the region’s policy-makers.
While many countries are struggling to recover from the worst financial and economic downturn since the Great Depression and some economies are even facing sovereign default for the first time in 60 years, political discontent is mounting. Some gloomy forecasts portend a lost decade for growth unless decisive action is taken at scale and speed to address the bottlenecks to reform that are strangling economic development. However, amid all of the short-term fire fighting, it is critical not to lose sight of the fact that to address the underlying concerns in the region, Europe must become more competitive.

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15 Smart Things Adam Smith Said About Money

Adam Smith. Father of capitalism. Coined "the invisible hand." Wrote the oft referred to but rarely read, "Wealth of Nations."

He was also a deeply odd guy who mumbled to himself in public, lived with his mother until she died and ordered all of his many papers burned upon his death. But that is all beside the point.

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