The Global Trend in Logistics
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Political factors are the level of government intervention in the economy that include such as Antitrust regulations, tax policy, special incentives, foreign trade regulations, environmental and labor law, trade embargo, tariffs, political stability, industrial relations and others. In the context of logistics M&A, these will be important especially for firms that are operating in China, India, Vietnam. Using India as example, apart from the non-uniform tax structure, logistic companies in India have to pay numerous other taxes, octrois, and face multiple check posts and police harassment. High costs of operation and delays involving compliance with varying documentation requirements of different states make the business unattractive. On an average, a vehicle on Indian roads loses 1-2 days in complying with paperwork and formalities at different check posts en route to a destination. Fuel worth up to estimated USD 2.5 billion is spent on waiting at check posts annually.
Economical factors include economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates, increasing globalization, creation of WTO, trade agreements among regions such as ASEAN, NAFTA, EU), emergence of the Indian & Chinese economies and others. These factors have major impacts on how businesses operate and make decisions.
In the context of M&A for logistics sector, economic deregulation plays an important part. Economic deregulation has led to carriers such as airlines (Air France with KLM to in 2004) shipping lines (P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk in 2005) and network restructuring, mergers and consolidations (DHL and Exel in 2005, Schenker and Bax Global in 2006, EGL & TNT Logistics to form CEVA in 2007) in, greater efficiencies in the form of labor and equipment, and price reductions for shippers. Deregulation has also facilitated the growth of multimodal solutions (Sea-Air, Rail-Air etc) to improve freight mobility, options and cost to customers and provide product differentiation and innovation for
Political factors are the level of government intervention in the economy that include such as Antitrust regulations, tax policy, special incentives, foreign trade regulations, environmental and labor law, trade embargo, tariffs, political stability, industrial relations and others. In the context of logistics M&A, these will be important especially for firms that are operating in China, India, Vietnam. Using India as example, apart from the non-uniform tax structure, logistic companies in India have to pay numerous other taxes, octrois, and face multiple check posts and police harassment. High costs of operation and delays involving compliance with varying documentation requirements of different states make the business unattractive. On an average, a vehicle on Indian roads loses 1-2 days in complying with paperwork and formalities at different check posts en route to a destination. Fuel worth up to estimated USD 2.5 billion is spent on waiting at check posts annually.
Economical factors include economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates, increasing globalization, creation of WTO, trade agreements among regions such as ASEAN, NAFTA, EU), emergence of the Indian & Chinese economies and others. These factors have major impacts on how businesses operate and make decisions.
In the context of M&A for logistics sector, economic deregulation plays an important part. Economic deregulation has led to carriers such as airlines (Air France with KLM to in 2004) shipping lines (P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk in 2005) and network restructuring, mergers and consolidations (DHL and Exel in 2005, Schenker and Bax Global in 2006, EGL & TNT Logistics to form CEVA in 2007) in, greater efficiencies in the form of labor and equipment, and price reductions for shippers. Deregulation has also facilitated the growth of multimodal solutions (Sea-Air, Rail-Air etc) to improve freight mobility, options and cost to customers and provide product differentiation and innovation for