Tag: Sea Transport

FedEx Trade Networks Opens New West Coast Gateways to Support Ocean-Ground Distribution Service

Posted by | Jun 25, 2008 | |

FedEx Trade Networks has opened two new gateways to support the FedEx Trade Networks Ocean-Ground Distribution service. The new West Coast gateways are located in Seattle, Wash., and Oakland, Calif., and will offer customers flexible options when shipping goods from Asia to multiple destinations in the U.S. The gateways will service the Seattle/Tacoma and Oakland/San Francisco ports.
FedEx Trade Networks Ocean-Ground Distribution is an alternative shipping method enabling customers to move cargo from Asia to multiple U.S. destinations in one seamless process. The innovative service combines FedEx Trade Networks ocean freight forwarding and customs brokerage services with the U.S. transportation and delivery services of FedEx Freight, FedEx National LTL, FedEx Ground, or FedEx Express. By managing the logistics, FedEx Trade Networks helps customers eliminate hand-offs and unnecessary steps to reduce cycle times and warehouse handling costs. FedEx Trade Networks Ocean-Ground Distribution customers benefit from the simplicity of working with one FedEx point of contact.
Seattle/Tacoma and Oakland/San Francisco will complement the existing Los Angeles and Chicago gateways and offer customers more options when importing from Asia, with three West Coast gateways.
FedEx Trade Networks operates offices and distribution centers in both the Seattle/Tacoma and Oakland /San Francisco locations with the capabilities to facilitate additional Ocean-Ground Distribution business.

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Azkar opens new office in Shanghai

Posted by | Jun 20, 2008 | |

The opening of Azkar Overseas new facilities, the subsidiary of Transportes Azkar, S.A., has been today in China specifically in Shanghai city. The act has been present, among others, Executive Vice President and CEO of Azkar, Jose Antonio Orozco, as well as the Mayor of Lugo, Jose Lopez Orozco, and Vice Chairman of the County Council, Lara Mendez, both were in a trade mission in China.

Azkar moves to another bigger facilities that it will be managed by a group of expert professionals fluent in Chinese, Spanish, Russian and English.

Azkar has the capacity to coordinate directly the providers with the suppliers of its customers in Asia, with China as the main point of origin, but without ruling out other countries of the Asia Southeast Region. The Company also offers high-performance logistics services for storage, order preparation (including kitting, assembly, mounting, etc), mercahandise control and distribution, as part of the integral service.

In this manner, AZKAR offers its customers a powerful international network for the management of imports and exports of goods, from any origin or destination in the world outside Europe, through Azkar Overseas, as in Europe traffic through Azkar Bisa International, or at the Iberian Peninsula and islands. The company has 73 facilities in Spain and Portugal, more than 500,000 m2 built on more than 1 million m2 of land, 5,000 employees and a fleet of 2,400 trucks.

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Sinotrans mulls logistics merger with Yangtze Transportation (PRC)

Posted by | Jun 18, 2008 | |

Sinotrans, the Chinese conglomerate partnered with DHL is considering merging with the country’s top river-shipping operator to create a national logistics giant, sending shares in its main listed arm up 6 percent on Wednesday.

Sinotrans Ltd, a joint venture partner of DHL and Korean Air, said its controlling shareholder of the same name was thinking of merging with the China Yangtze Transportation (Group) Corp.

If it goes ahead, the move would create a sprawling transport corporation operating everything from marine, oil and river shipping to express delivery, freight forwarding and warehousing, as Beijing spurs consolidation of a large but fragmented sector.

Analysts believe the deal will open opportunities for Sinotrans’ listed units — Sinotrans Ltd and Sinotrans Shipping Ltd — to buy assets from their state parent in future, though it will not have an immediate impact on listed firms.

After merging with Yangtze Transportation, which had total assets of 41.2 billion yuan (USD 5.8 billion) in 2007, Sinotrans would become the nation’s largest shipping and logistics conglomerate after the marine-oriented COSCO group.

Sinotrans and Yangtze Transportation, which controls two mainland Chinese-listed firms (Nanjing Tanker and Changjiang Phoenix) will form a group named the China Logistics Group to hold the interests of both parties, media reports said this week.

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DHL Global Forwarding Japan launches “Web-booking”

Posted by | Jun 16, 2008 | |

DHL Global Forwarding Japan K.K. – the air and ocean freight forwarding arm in Japan of DHL– has launched “Web-booking,” an online booking service for consolidated ocean cargo(LCL).
“Web-booking” realizes easy online searching of schedules for consolidated transport and planned arrival dates for transport bound to any country in the world; this information will also be available for download in PDF and Excel formats in near future.
Completion of the simple online user registration process facilitates future bookings because it eliminates the need to re-input basic information such as company name and address.
Archived customer booking histories means it is not necessary to re-input detailed cargo information if the cargo being shipped is similar to previous export shipments.
Customers can select their vessel according to destination, can check information regarding the vessel’s operational condition, and can confirm its actual departure and arrival times.
A rewards program for frequent users of the “Web-booking” service is planned to be unveiled in the future.
The launch of DHL Global Forwarding’s “Web-booking” service means that customers now can book ocean export shipments and receive accurate information on the departure and arrival of vessels around the clock.

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DHL Global Forwarding achieves worldwide Cargo 2000 Phase 2 certification

Posted by | Apr 3, 2008 | |

DHL Global Forwarding has achieved Phase 2 certification for Cargo 2000’s quality management system that covers the planning, control and measurement of the door-to-door process for air cargo shipments at House Air Waybill level.

The certification is for all DHL Global Forwarding sites worldwide. The company has been working toward global Phase 2 accreditation since gaining certification of its initial pilot stations five years ago.

Phase 2 of the Cargo 2000 program covers all of the intermediate activities performed by freight forwarders, addressing all key milestones in the air cargo quality measurement process for door-to-door deliveries at house air-waybill level. DHL Global Forwarding currently plans, measures and reports more than 300,000 shipments per month within the Cargo 2000 quality system.

The Cargo 2000 program is being implemented in three distinct phases. Phase 1 manages airport-to-airport movements (shipment planning & tracking at MAWB level). Phase 2 provides interactive monitoring of door-to-door movement (shipment planning and tracking at HAWB level). Phase 3 manages shipment planning and tracking at individual piece level plus document tracking.

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