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...Fiat is hardly a magic pill for Chrysler, which is burdened by inefficient factories that need major overhauls to allow for production of smaller, smarter automobiles, says Giuseppe Berta, a Milan-based car-industry expert. "At this point, Chrysler can say it tried to get out of a corner, that it found a European company that makes more marketable cars," says Berta. "But if you want to actually use Chrysler facilities to construct a Cinquecento or Alfa MiTo, you're talking about a major cost." (See the 50 worst cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiat to Take 35% Stake in Chrysler | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

...Politicians from Italy's rich north tried to block the deal because Air France has promised to shift Italy's main hub from Milan's Malpensa back to Rome. On Monday, Milan mayor Letizia Moratti pleaded in vain for Alitalia's managers to reconsider a partnership with German carrier Lufthansa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Air France-KLM Bought 25% of Alitalia | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

Andiamo! High-speed train service has just launched in Italy, with trains, known as the Frecciarossa, traveling as fast as 217 m.p.h. The journey between Milan and Bologna takes just over an hour; from Milan to Rome, it's three and a half hours; and from Milan to Venice, 2 hr. 45 min. If you book your ticket before Jan. 13, you get a 10% discount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel News: An Inauguration Day How-To | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...answer will depend on how demand in China holds up over the next few months. But even if growth slows further, most of the biggest players in shipping are likely to survive. According to Oliviero Baccelli, a transportation economist at Bocconi University in Milan, that's because shippers have cut costs far faster and deeper than many of their counterparts in other industries. Shipping also enjoys a certain stability during tough times thanks to the enduring presence of family-run companies, and gradual consolidation over the past couple of decades has winnowed out the weak. "You have families who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As the World Economy Sinks, So Does Global Shipping | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...towards her sociology concentration and for electives. “On the academic front, that stuff is all stuff you can work out,” she says. Like Peisker, Campbell received credit for one core requirement per semester abroad. Campbell spent her first semester abroad taking courses in Milan, Italy. Her class on Leonardo da Vinci, “The Last Supper,” was conveniently located just around the corner. Another course was about television and media communication. With the huge American influence on such a subject, she says, she was “seeing our culture...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Broadening Horizons, Abroad | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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