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Geodis Wilson Honours its Innovators

May 16, 2013 by

Paris, 15th May 2013

Geodis Wilson has once more honoured its employees who have shown particular creative prowess, as the Company announces the winners of its annual “Innovation Masters Award” recognising outstanding internal innovative initiatives throughout the logistic service provider’s global network.

The Innovation Masters Award (IMA) is Geodis Wilson’s internal competition designed to stimulate innovative thinking and to improve the performance, processes and products of the Company. The programme was initiated in 2011 in order to enhance Geodis Wilson’s aim of becoming the most innovative trendsetter in global freight management.

This year the award was presented to two teams of innovators and two individuals. The winners, who received their awards at the IMA Presentation Ceremony in Dubai, are:

  • From The Netherlands Cynthia Liauw, Erik Goosens and Rutger Jonker for their Milestone Scan Events project which is about linking the milestones automatically to Geodis Wilson´s track and trace system.
  • Johan Karlsson, Martin Henriksen and Peter Riis Rasmussen from Sweden and Denmark who proposed the development of Package Scanner APP that can be used via smartphones.
  • The Hong Kong office’s Steven Pike for his initiative, the Next Gen & Axapta Reporting Department that should centralize and standardise reporting.
  • From India Raj Kiran Pant’s 24×7 Customer Care idea for an increased customer satisfaction received the fourth award.

“The IMA-program is a product of Geodis Wilson’s corporate philosophy, which contains a commitment to become the innovation leader in the freight forwarding industry”, says Kim Pedersen. “Employee engagement is crucial to the success of this aim and we are justly proud of the standard of entries for the Award and of our dedicated employees, award-winners or not, they are the pivotal factor in delivering top-class customer service.”

The entry and subsequent selection process began in September 2012 and included over 250 submissions. These were whittled down by the regional judging panels to a shortlist of fifteen finalists before the ultimate winners were chosen by the executive board members and previous IMA winners.

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Photo Caption: (l-r) Pierre Blayau, CEO SNCF Geodis & Chairman of Geodis; Rutger Jonker (Team Netherlands); Martin Henriksen (Team Nordic); Steven Pike (Hong Kong); Raj Kiran Pant (India); Kim Pedersen, Executive Vice President, Geodis Wilson.

About Geodis Wilson and the Geodis Group

Geodis Wilson is a leading global freight management company. With 7.700 employees in more than 50 countries the company delivers tailor-made, integrated logistics solutions to customers enabling them to operate as ‘best in class.’ Geodis Wilson is the freight-forwarding arm of Geodis Group which became part of the French rail and freight group SNCF in 2008. With its 47.600 employees in 120 countries ‘SNCF GEODIS’ ranks among the top 7 companies in its field in the world.

For more information about Geodis Wilson go to – www.geodiswilson.com


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Evergreen named Best Trans-Pacific Shipping Line

May 13, 2013 by

May 13, 2013

Global ocean carrier Evergreen Line has been awarded Best Ocean Carrier—Transpacific by Cargonews Asia in the 27st Annual Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards (AFSCA) sponsored by the publication. The award was presented on 9 May, 2013 at a ceremony taking place at Conrad Beijing. Evergreen Line emerged as top choice out of 11 container carriers entered in the competition.

The criteria for the award are maintenance of schedule integrity, effective and easy to use IT systems backed by efficient and professional customer service systems, and comprehensive ports of call on the specific trade.

Evergreen Line operates 14 transpacific services, offering comprehensive port coverage in Asia and North America.  The carrier has been recognized for excellence in many competitions, most recently for its top rankings in “overall performance” and “consultation on schedule changes” categories of CI’s Asian Shipper Sentiment Survey published this February.

The AFSCA awards are designed to honor the respective winning organizations for demonstrating leadership as well as consistency in service quality, innovation, customer relationship management and reliability. The accolade is particularly significant because it signifies a vote of confidence in the carrier’s efforts to provide shippers with quality service.

Filed Under: Evergreen Line

Priority Freight Enhances its Presence at AP&M Europe

May 2, 2013 by

Priority Freight, the award winning global lead logistics provider of time-critical freight transport services is exhibiting for the second year at ‘ap&m europe 2013’ Europe’s leading networking event for the Commercial Aviation MRO & Aftermarket. The exhibition is being held in Olympia Grand Hall, London from the 7th to 9th of May.

“The aviation, aerospace and AOG sectors remain areas where a particular type of specialised logistics services such as ours are often called for to deliver parts for both construction and maintenance in a time-critical and reliable manner.” comments Priority Freight’s Group Managing Director Neal Williams.  “Attending ‘ap&m’ last year my colleagues and I were impressed by the quantity and calibre of airlines, manufacturers, parts suppliers and maintenance companies that were gathered there.  We certainly want to be part of that dynamic community.”

Priority Freight will be showcasing its expedited freight services that have been honed to the height of efficiency by years of experience in the demanding aviation and automotive sector on Stand F54 at the exhibition this year.  The company has an experienced multilingual staff that operates from nine offices located in seven European countries. It provides emergency freight solutions to time-critical transport problems 24/7, 365 days a year around the world.

‘ap&m europe’ is proud of the place it holds in the airline supply chain, facilitating business exchanges and contacts between airlines and their technical supply base. Covering the full range of MRO and related services, exhibitors, delegates and visitors between them represent the full spectrum of activities which go into keeping airlines flying.

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Notes for Editors:

About Priority Freight: Established in 1996, Priority Freight’s reliability and competitiveness have allowed it to progress rapidly. Now with over 90 employees, the family-run business continues to take pride in maintaining its core values of trustworthiness and value for money. Priority Freight is one of Europe’s leading time-critical freight specialists, helping clients to meet complex and urgent international delivery challenges worldwide. Priority Freight has offices throughout Europe and members of its experienced staff are available 24/7, 365 days a year, meeting its customers’ time-critical transport needs and often beating seemingly impossible deadlines. www.priorityfreight.com

Priority Freight Representatives attending ‘ap&m Europe’ include:

Andrew Austin, CEO

Neal Williams, Group Managing Director

Angela Lynch, Business Development Manager

Stuart Jones, Business Development Manager

Mike Spellman, Managing Director – Heathrow

Arek Kowalewski, Managing Director – Poland

Filed Under: Priority Freight

Evergreen Gears up for Trans-Pacific Peak Season

April 24, 2013 by

In preparation for the coming peak season on Trans-Pacific trade, Evergreen Line is announcing major service enhancements. Next month it will launch a new weekly direct service linking central China with the US West Coast.  In addition the line intends to further strengthen its Trans-Pacific service network via slot exchange arrangements with strategic partners

Employing five vessels of 4,000 TEU, Evergreen Line will start its own China–Pacific South West (CPS2) Service with an inaugural sailing from Ningbo on the 14th of May.  The port rotation will then follow as Shanghai, Los Angeles, Oakland and Ningbo.

Furthermore, Evergreen will utilise the new CPS2 and its existing HTW services to provide capacity for a slot exchange arrangement with COSCO’s CEN, and Hanjin’s CAX and PSX services.  The rotations of these loops are as follows:

CPS2 (Evergreen)：Ningbo, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Oakland, Ningbo

HTW (Evergreen)：Taipei, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Yantian, Los Angeles, Oakland, Taipei

CEN (COSCO)：Dalian, Xingang, Qingdao, Long Beach, Oakland, Dalian

CAX (Hanjin)：Shanghai, Kwangyang, Busan, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, Tokyo, Osaka, Busan, Shanghai

PSX (Hanjin)：Kaohsiung, Yantian, Shekou, Shanghai, Busan, Long Beach, Oakland, Busan, Kwangyang, Kaohsiung

Filed Under: Evergreen Line

Major Investment for Dachser

April 23, 2013 by

Northampton, 23 April, 2013

The UK subsidiary of one of Europe’s leading global logistics players, Dachser, has announced a major investment in a brand new integrated logistics centre close to its existing premises at Brackmills, Northampton.

Artists impression of Dachser UK's new Northampton facility

Dachser is purchasing a 16.38 acre site, and the freehold facility will comprise a 64,000 sq. ft cross-dock as well as a 114,000 sq ft contract logistics warehouse and 21,000 sq ft of office accommodation over two storeys.

Contracts were exchanged last month, and the project is expected to be completed in March 2014.

‘The growth in our UK business has been significant over the past few years, and an expansion of our existing capacity was essential in order to sustain our development’, commented Nick Lowe. Dachser’s UK Managing Director. ‘By replacing our several facilities in Northampton with a brand new logistics centre on one site, we will be able to operate very efficiently and maximise the opportunities for ourselves and our customers.’

The new premises will accommodate a 65% increase in existing capacity for contract logistics and value-added services, as well as providing more than double the current size of cross-dock operation to support in particular the rapidly increasing volumes of European exports and imports.

‘We are also looking to the future’,  added Lowe. ‘We have incorporated provision for a 26,000 sq ft extension of the cross-dock facility, a benefit that we fully anticipate making use of in several years’ time given our expectations for continued growth. We are delighted to have secured this site, which is ideal from a logistics viewpoint and allows us to retain existing staff and create many new jobs locally. The significant capital investment in our own freehold demonstrates our long-term commitment to the expansion of our UK business.’

Dachser UK also has branches in Dartford and Rochdale, both of which are seeing a steady growth in business volumes too as the Company continues to increase its market share. A new sales office has recently been opened in Reading, serving the M4 corridor region, and more branches in other areas of the UK are planned for the future.

Daily line-hauls are operated from all three current locations, ensuring fast and efficient direct connections to many hub centres in Dachser’s comprehensive pan-European network. In this way, the Company provides an extremely reliable door-to-door distribution service for palletised consignments with all the benefits of track&trace visibility.

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ABOUT DACHSER UK

DACHSER UK is part of the Dachser group, a major international logistics provider which on 31 Dec.  2012 generated total sales worth EUR 4.41 billion. 21,650 staff working in 347 locations worldwide handled 49.8 million consignments comprising 37.46 million tonnes.

For more information, please visit  www.dachser.co.uk

Filed Under: Dachser UK

Evergreen Names Newest Vessels

April 18, 2013 by

Evergreen Names Newest Vessels

April 18, 2013–Ever Liven, the tenth in a series of L-type containership to be operated by Evergreen Line, was christened by S.S. Lin, the Evergreen Group’s First Vice Group Chairman, at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Korea today. The official rope-cutting of the new 8,452-TEU vessel was performed by Mrs. Tsai Su-Hua in a ceremony attended by dignitaries from Taiwan, Korea and other nations.

The conglomerate’s Vice Group Chairman Kuo Shiuan-Yu will preside at the naming ceremony of Ever Logic, the eleventh vessel in the series on April 19; the rope-cutting on this occasion will be conducted by Mrs. Kuo Yeh Chiung-Yu.

The two ships will join Evergreen Line’s Far East – Europe routes after their delivery into service in late April.  From a fleet deployment perspective, the L-type containerships are very flexible, fulfilling the demands of various markets.  In addition to the east-west long-haul trades from Asia to Europe and North America, L-type ships can be employed on north-south routes linking Asia to South Africa and South America. Equipped with such vessels, Evergreen Line believes it is more able to adjust its fleet capacity across a number of trades to meet the variable demand of the global market as a whole.

With the primary aims of upgrading and renewing its fleet  as well as better catering for its customers’ future space requirements, Evergreen Group commenced its new shipbuilding programme in 2010 with an order for 20 L-type vessels from Samsung Heavy Industries.  In 2011, Evergreen ordered a further 10 vessels of the same specification from Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp.  Eighteen of the thirty newbuildings are expected to be delivered by the end of 2013.

Filed Under: Evergreen Line

New Reading Sales Office for Dachser

April 17, 2013 by

Northampton, 17 April, 2013

As part of a strategy to extend its network of UK and European distribution services to all key markets in the country, Dachser UK have established a sales office for the M4 corridor and appointed two experienced business development managers to cover the region.

Gary Fitchett

Gary Fitchett and Darren Phillips are both established professionals in the UK freight transport and logistics market, having a total of over fifty years’ service in the business between them.  Based at a newly-established Dachser sales office in Reading, Gary will cover central southern England while Darren is responsible for the southwest. The office is a satellite of the existing regional sales team based at Dachser’s Dartford branch.

In welcoming the two new recruits Nick Lowe, Dachser’s UK MD said, “Our strategy to create a steady and sustainable expansion of our business in the UK, through both acquisition and organic growth, continues.  In the north west, our purchase of JA Leach Transport and the integration of its business to create our new Rochdale branch has gone well.  Now, with the addition of these two highly experienced and motivated account managers to our already well-established southern regional sales team, our plans to further develop our business in the south will take a further step forward.”

Dachser offers a comprehensive door-to-door European delivery service for UK exporters and importers, connecting its three branches in the UK,

Darren Phillips

in Rochdale, Dartford and Northampton, with the well-established Dachser network in Europe. An integrated, state-of-the-art shipment control and tracking system as well as EDI connections are available throughout the network.

Lowe notes, “We continue to experience demand from all sizes of UK companies for single and multiple pallet consignments to destinations in all parts of Europe.  We have experienced a further increase of 15% in export volumes over the past year, and this trend is encouraging us to invest carefully in expanding our customer base throughout the UK.”

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ABOUT DACHSER UK

DACHSER UK is part of the Dachser group, a major international logistics provider which on 31 Dec.  2012 generated total sales worth EUR 4.41 billion. 21,650 staff working in 347 locations worldwide handled 49.8 million consignments comprising 37.5 million tonnes.

For more information, please visit  www.dachser.co.uk

Filed Under: Dachser UK

“K” LINE (INDIA) Private Limited enters into coastal shipping operation in India

April 17, 2013 by

“K” Line (India) Private Limited (hereinafter KLIN), “K” Line’s subsidiary company in India, is further expanding its services in India by entering into coastal shipping operations.

KLIN commenced its coastal transportation in India with the movement of iron ore cargo, having shipped about 55,000 Metric Tons of iron ore from the East coast to Mumbai on the West coast of India utilizing a one-spot chartered vessel.

This transportation was introduced to meet an increase in demand for coastal transportation of bulk cargo such as iron ore and coal. We plan to further expand into the coastal transportation business in other areas of Asia.

In India, satisfactory progress has been made in the transportation of motorcycles by Triple Decker Motorcycle Carriers and land transportation of steel materials. These services are in line with our desire to provide comprehensive logistics services to meet customer needs that utilize strong local ties.

Filed Under: "K" Line

Evergreen’s New Asia-South America Service to Start in May

April 16, 2013 by

In partnership with Wan Hai Line (WHL), PIL and COSCO, Evergreen Line is further improving its service network in South America.  In early May the new Asia – West Coast of South America (WSA2) Service will be launched, linking Taiwan and China with five countries along the West Coasts of Central America and South America.

Employing nine vessels of 3,500-3,900 TEU, the start of the weekly service will be marked by the inaugural sailing from Kaohsiung on the 4th of May.  The port rotation will then follow as Shekou – Hong Kong – Ningbo – Shanghai – Manzanillo (Mexico) – Lazaro Cardenas (Mexico) – Puerto Quetzal (Guatemala) – Buenaventura (Colombia) – Callao (Peru) – Guayaquil (Ecuador) – Manzanillo – Kaohsiung.  Evergreen Line will provide one of the ships, WHL four, PIL three and COSCO the remaining one.

The region of South America covered by the service is enjoying strong economic growth forecasts that support Evergreen’s strategy of network expansion to/from these West Coast ports. According to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook report published in January, Latin America as a whole is forecast to attain economic growth rates of 3.6% in 2013 and 3.9% in 2014 compared to 3% in 2012.  The report suggests that stable cargo growth can be expected for the region’s trade with Asia.

Filed Under: Evergreen Line

Evergreen Line to Upgrade Far East-South America Service

April 15, 2013 by

Evergreen Line is to join forces with COSCO and ZIM in order to upgrade the fleet operating its Far East – South America Service (ESA).  Linking China, Singapore and the East Coast of South America from May 11th, 2013, the new loop will enable Evergreen Line to meet the growing demand on this trade and provide customers with an evermore efficient service.

A total of ten ships of 8,500 teu will be deployed on the new ESA service, replacing the existing fleet of 3,000 teu vessels.  Evergreen Line will provide five of these ships, COSCO three and ZIM the remaining two.  The Brazilian ports of Rio Grande and Itapoa will be added to the current service rotation, which becomes: Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Hong Kong, Singapore, Santos, Paranagua, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Rio Grande, Itapoa, Santos, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Filed Under: Evergreen Line
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