Imagine you go to a car dealer and ask the manufacturer to produce a vehicle that has a maximum speed of exactly 218 km/h and must not weigh more than one tonne.
Two years ago, the French Decathlon, the world's largest sporting goods retailer, faced many challenges known to global retailers (especially today), with labour shortages, rapid growth in online sales, unpredictable demand-life cycles, and higher expectations for faster and cheaper deliveries rendering warehouse management an increasingly difficult task.
The Kujawsko-Pomorskie region, situated alongside Europe's main transport routes, is well-suited to house complex logistics and storage centres as well as for the development of transportation solutions that combine rail, road, and inland waterways.
With 337.45 million tonnes, the seaports of the Baltic Sea region handled slightly less general cargo last year than in 2018, a drop of 1.2% year-on-year, and a contraction of 0.61 percentage points in its overall share of the region's total.
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) recently released a series of articles on how governments and businesses, particularly their leaders, can assist populations in coping with the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), and how to best prepare for the new reality after the crisis is over.