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Chief executive officer Sean Pierce discusses the rapid growth of Yilport Container Terminal and reveals that there is much more to come from the business in the years ahead.

Defined by the International Monetary Fund as an emerging market economy, Turkey is recognised as one of the world’s newly industrialised countries. It is also known to possess one of the highest volumes of cargo transit activity in the region. This growth in containerisation has significantly raised the country’s profile as a hub for international trade.

For almost four decades Lanka Walltiles has remained a leading figure in the Sri Lankan ceramic tile market. Managing director Mahendra Jayasekera explains how unwavering quality and the embracing of new technologies have made this so.

Global tobacco giant British American Tobacco is realigning its supply chain function to improve operational efficiency. Gay Sutton talks to Bernd Meyer, Global Head of Plan, Logistics and Service about bringing these three erstwhile separate functions together.

Raúl Jacob, CFO of Peruvian operations and company comptroller, highlights the massive expansion programmes the company is undertaking, both in Peru and in Mexico.

After twenty years of market creation in China, profound changes have taken place that affect how international companies need to operate there. The last in our three part series examines how selling has become an important business function.

Walmart today announced a commitment to increase US sourcing of its products by $50 billion over the next ten years.

Speaking at the National Retail Federation's annual BIG Show, Walmart US President and CEO Bill Simon also announced plans to employ more US veterans and to help part-time associates who want to make the transition to full time work.

France Telecom currently has approximately 80 million customers across Africa and it will now commence work to ensure that phones sold by its operators there are pre-installed with the web browser.

The company has said that slow data speeds on African mobile networks have made it difficult up until now to support web-browsing. This new browser is expected to ease the burden on networks by using specially written code that reduces the amount of data that has to be passed back and forth when visiting popular websites.

Ford Motor Company plans to hire 2,200 salaried workers in the US this year, the largest increase in more than a decade, to support the pace of new product introductions.

The planned hiring is in addition to more than 8,100 combined hourly and salaried jobs Ford added in the US in 2012, as the company increased production capacity and expanded engineering, manufacturing and other areas. Approximately 1,000 of these positions were hourly jobs brought back to Ford plants in the US from other locations, including suppliers in Japan and Mexico.