MAN Features
Press Newsletter June 2009
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MAN counts on BRIC countries
- The "B" in "BRIC" stands for Brazil. This acronym has become a much-discussed catchword in the financial sector. Russia, India and China are the other members of the quadriga. The BRIC countries play a central role in MAN's internationalization strategy.
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Continued improvement of transport efficiency
- MAN Nutzfahrzeuge and the other companies participating in the CoCar research project presented the results of their two-and-a-half years of scientific work in Munich. The researchers focused on the question of how today's wireless technologies can be used to make road traffic safer and more efficient.
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Forever and always
- Even high-tech products made by MAN will contain components that have changed surprisingly little over the years.
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Report from the Frontline
- Frontline Management oversees more than 60 newbuilding projects in South Korea, China and India. Each one will have MAN Diesel engines. Frontline is the world's largest crude-oil transport company.
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The inferno of Rotterdam
- Those who come here have only one thing on their minds: fighting fire, smoke and fear. Controlled chaos rules supreme at Europe’s only elite academy for firefighters.
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‘Panics are nothing new’
- Exactly 600 years ago, starting in Belgian Bruges, stock exchanges prevailed throughout the world. Today, the economic and financial system is caught up in a profound crisis. Stock market historian Hartmut Kiehling sees parallels to earlier crashes – and actually harbors some hope of improvement.
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Diesel’s heirs
- Ideas are capital. This fundamental truth has always been a key part of the MAN story. Even today, more than 150 years after the birth of Rudolf Diesel, it’s the employees and their ideas that account for MAN’s success.
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Sounding deep blue’s mysteries
- The Maria S. Merian is regarded as the world’s most modern research ship. During its crisscrossing of the high seas, the high-tech cruiser also sails to serve climate research. The vessel is powered by environmentally friendly MAN diesel generators.
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