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【正文】 Identify and explain the labour market and the employment relations issues in SingaporeIn this report, we want to concentrate on the feasibility of Linfox expanding its operations in Singapore. Linfox is Asia Pacific’s largest privately owned supply chain solutions provider. Its transport, warehousing, property and airport operations are represented in seven countries throughout the AsiaPacific region including Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China. It has not concentrated on penetrating the Singaporean logistic operations in the past. We recognise the potentials that Linfox can realise from expanding into the Singapore logistic industry such as greater access to further Southeast Asia market and also providing logistic services to the international distribution markets that utilises the transhipment hub or air and cargo node. This expansion strategy would plement Linfox’s vision and purpose to be the supply chain solutions provider of choice throughout the AsiaPacific region.The logistic industry is integral to the Singapore economy and offers a wide range of opportunities to panies seeking to offer logistics services (Ng, 2003). The sector covers the broad range of activities concerned with effective and efficient movement of semifinished or finished goods from one business to another and from manufacturer/distributors and retailers to the end users (Ng, 2003). Typical activities include freight transportation, warehousing, material handling, protective packaging, inventory control, order processing, marketing and forecasting (Ng, 2003).In Singapore, logistics as a whole contributed about US$ billion or 8% to the nation’s gross domestic product, employing about 93,000 people (Ng, 2003). Over the next decade, the join governmentindustry vision is for Singapore to develop as a premier integrated transport and logistics hub with leading edge capabilities in maritime, aviation and land transportation as well as logistics management excellence (Ng, 2003). If this succeeds, it is expected that the logistics sector’s contribution to the Singapore GDP will grow from the current 8% to 13% of GDP (Ng, 2003). Employment in this sector is also estimated to increase to more than 120,000 by 2012 (Ng, 2003).A key expansion has been the development of the elogistics business (Ng, 2003). This transformation of logistical processes through electronic means of moving, storing and manipulating data, information and knowledge have enabled panies to deliver customerconfigured products and value added services (Ng, 2003). Significant opportunities for the logistics services in Singapore are also derived from the increased outsourcing of logistical functions and the growth of third party logistics (3PL)/fourth party logistics (4PL) (Ng, 2003). Outsourcing to 3PLs/4PLs, both ensure that panies avoid locking capital in warehouses, trucks, containers etc as well as satisfies the need for more sophisticated services like multimodal transport and international trade pliance (Ng, 2003).There are more than 3,000 local and foreign transport and logistics panies operating in Singapore (Ng, 2003). As Singapore looks to panies who can bring world class services to the logistics industry, the efficiency and quality of the service play a very important role in acceptance of world class solutions. To fulfil Singapore’s vision of developing the country as the premier integrated transport and logistics hub, the government has proposed a series of initiatives to attract more logistics operators into Singapore and thus provided greater opportunities to logistics services providers (Ng, 2003). One of the key initiatives that Singapore has undertaken is the Logistics Enhancement and Application Program (LEAP), a platform for government and private sector collaboration (Ng, 2003).Singapore is building on its already leading position as a logistics hub (Ng, 2003). Its central location in Southeast Asia as the crossroads of international shipping routes, coupled with the development of an extensive air network and efficient telemunications and financial services port has developed Singapore into a transhipment hub and air and cargo node (Ng, 2003).In order to successfully achieve this expansion strategy, there are a number of key issues that Linfox will need to acknowledge such as the need for flexibility in Singapore’s labour market, their ageing pop
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