On 30th of January 2015, CQR Vilnius was listed for the 4th consecutive time in the GAZELE TOP 1000 most successful and fastest growing Lithuanian SME companies
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The awards are organized by the Lithuanian business daily Verslo Zinios and during the official ceremony, winners were greeted by Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaite.
“We received this award because of a 281% growth over the last 3 years and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our employees for their contribution to this significant achievement. Well done!” said Director Justas Vernickas
Delamode Baltics was up against 3000 companies and was listed 149th in the final 1000 awarded.
On 24th January this year, CQR Riga celebrated its 20th anniversary
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Since its foundation in 1995, RINOSTA has gone from a small shipping agency in the port of Riga with just two members of staff to an experienced forwarding company with 22 employees operating across offices in Latvia and Lithuania.
“We are proud to say that we are amongst a handful of well-established and independent freight forwarding companies in the Baltic and we have gained a strong market position in the region. Myself and the team are dedicated to the business we love for at least the next 20 years!” said Manager Maria Zhilyaeva.
RINOSTA has been fortunate enough to keep its original staff who also celebrated two decades with the company. They are teaching the newer team members, sharing their valuable knowledge and precious experience.
“Whilst these past 20 years have not always been easy, they have certainly been exciting and important to all of us with every day bringing the team valuable knowledge, experience and greater confidence!” said Maria. “Finally, I would to thank all of you, our fellow members, for the partnerships we have developed. We value your support and assistance, and the passion you have shown in reaching our mutual objectives. We look forward to meeting you all at the CQR annual meeting in May!” said Maria.
Our CQR member in Amsterdam / Rotterdam is one of our newer members, representing the network in both Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Last week, we sat down with Inver Gase, Managing Director/Co-Owner at the NBK Amsterdam office, to find out more about this century old company and its 21st century operations.
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Q. When and how did you get into the freight forwarding industry?
A. I started my career in the airfreight forwarding industry, about 30 years ago. After graduating in Construction Engineering, (BEng) I became fed up with this industry and took an opportunity to launch a new career in the logistics industry, as a freight forwarder entrepreneur running my own show. After 20 years of operation, I sold this company.
Q. Can you tell us a little about the history of NBK AIR AND OCEAN and when you joined?
A. After selling my company I worked on the pay-roll for various companies at management level, but it didn’t give me the same satisfaction as when I was running my own business.
In 2012, I teamed-up with the NBK Group and shortly after that I decided to start-up NBK Air & Ocean BV at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol as a part-owner of this company. The brand NBK was established almost 100 years ago (1919) near the biggest port in Europe with a specialization in transportation of wood products. Through the Years, we have gained a lot of knowledge and experience which have enabled us to become a reliable 4PL service provider. This regards transport by road, sea, air, rail or a combination of these. We coordinate the logistics from the origin to the place of destination.
Q. Does your company specialise in any particular kind of shipment or service?
A. We are specialized in several fields of logistics, the Group NBK consists of several divisions, with 30000m2 warehousing, our own fleet of container trucks, hazardous cargo specialist, IATA and AEO licensed. Our no nonsense attitude combined with perseverance and clear, open communication makes the difference. We will always give our best service to each agent or client, no matter the size of the shipment.
Q. What would be the most significant shipment your company has handled?
A. The one that sticks most in my mind occurred on Christmas Day, 2012. A vessel belonging to one of our customers (a ship-owner) became stuck in Cartagena port, Colombia needing spare parts from The Netherlands. It was absolutely mandatory that these spares arrived within 24 hours at Cartagena airport, with no transhipping in Bogota. With much of the world shutdown for the holiday season, we knew it was going to be a challenge.
Thanks to trust we have built with our agent partners over the years, we were able to provide a seamless service. Our team managed to book all cargo on a KLM flight into Curacao on Christmas day and there our agent chartered a small aircraft for the short journey onto Cartagena. Despite the odds being stacked against us, we managed to make the delivery on time with the spare parts arriving on board the vessel on Christmas day evening.
Q. What are the challenges facing the freight forwarding industry in The Netherlands and/or the world at the moment?
A. Big challenges; well the industry is changing fast and competition is tough. In the Airfreight industry, we are seeing a large decrease in freighter/maindeck capacity. With new aircrafts, we are gaining tremendous belly capacity which is sold into the market at low cost. Our challenge is to find a match in cargo for a pure freighter service at high yield and substantial turnover on the larger belly capacity with lower yield.
In the end, we just keep doing what we do, providing the best service possible. With the capacity of the group and several different kinds of products, our continuity is secured.
Q. You are registered to attend our annual meeting in May this year. Why in your opinion is attending a network’s annual meeting so important?
A. Logistics remains a people’s business, making new friends and getting to know each other is the basis of long lasting relationships. Two members of the NBK team, Rini Verhoef and Bud Klein, are attending the annual meeting. It is always great to meet so many agents, partners, friends in one place without travelling across the globe constantly.
Q. What are your goals for the meeting?
A. Work hard, party hard! Our aims are to meet our partners and introduce them to NBK and vice-versa. The knowledge we will gain from the meeting, will ensure we can provide our clients with a higher level of service and cooperation of our agencies around the globe.
NBK Air & Ocean BV is a perfect example of the type of members we want in our network. A team committed to growing their business through mutual cooperation.
CQR Chongqing, is a company specialized in handling oversized and overweight cargo
One of their most recent such shipments was for one unit crawler excavator which was shipped from Shanghai, China to Asuncion, Paraguay. The team organized a seamless and successful end to end service which in part was down to the company being a VIP customer of the main port in Shanghai, enjoying priority of entering the port, discharging cargoes and tally at the port by arranging professional staff working at the port site to meet any needs for their customers.
“Over the years, we have built up good relationships within the industry and the external providers we use are hired on a regular basis. We always ensure that they are operating correctly and efficiently in order to guarantee customer satisfaction,” explained Commercial Director, Joy Hu.
Over the past few months, CQR’s exclusive agent in Kanpur, has been shipping literally tons of cargo by air; including 13MT of stainless steel sheets to Dammam
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Due to the weight of the cargo, moving from Mumbai Airport was carried out with special packing instructions. The scope of work for the team included freight, packing, documentation, custom clearance and airport handling.
Whilst 13MT is a significant air shipment, it is not the team’s largest recent air shipment. They also moved a 73MT transformer from Bangalore to Angola on a chartered flight and 4 engineering valves weighing approx. 29.4 MT from Mumbai to Riyadh on nose loading plane, specially positioned for the loading of the shipment.
We would like to congratulate the team on the successful handling of these shipments!
We are pleased to inform members that CQR Mumbai, has received the Top Agent Award from Emirates Skycargo for the States of Maharashtra and Gujarat in India.
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“Agents are vitally important to us – their success is a key part of our success at Emirates SkyCargo. Working as partners, they form an integral part of our overall accomplishment in achieving growth across all of the markets that we operate in,” said Pradeep Kumar, Emirates’ Senior Vice President, Cargo – Revenue Optimisation. “We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our agents for their invaluable contribution to our business. It is due to their consistent efforts that we have are in such a prominent and well regarded position in the industry today.”
It’s always a pleasure to hear CQR agents spoken of so highly. CQR Head Office would like to congratulate CQR Mumbai on this achievement!
Conqueror Almaty’s project division is renowned for its handling capabilities and almost legendary when it comes to taking on large, complex, intricate projects. They recently lived up to their reputation when they were asked to handle and deliver crushers from Spain to Kazakhstan for a mining project.
The scope of work handled by the team was indeed comprehensive; including crating, sea freight, road freight and customs clearance at destination. Given the cargo weight, mobile cranes had to be positioned for loading onto the vessel chartered for the trip from Bilbao to St. Petersburg.
At St. Petersburg, personnel from their project office supervised reloading onto sea-river barges for the journey down the Volga Don River to the Caspian Sea Port of Astrakhan. Upon docking, the Crushers were offloaded and lashed onto low bed trailers, courtesy of Globalink’s road freight division, and departed at once for the job site. Clearance at destination was an exercise in efficiency and brought to close a well-planned and brilliantly executed job.
We are pleased to announce that CQR Sialkot, has been announced as best supporting agent to Delta Airways
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Operations Manager, Ummar Sadiq, said that, “Awards like this show that we are providing a good service and that our customers are satisfied. We strive to be the best forwarder in Sialkot and awards like this certainly help cement that idea.”
This recognition comes in the same year as the company celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Conqueror would like to congratulate the team for their brilliant feat!
CQR Kolkata was recently charged with moving an oversize steel Shiva statue from the site at Isha Yoga Centre, Coimbatore, India to the Isha Institute of Inner Sciences, McMinnville, Tennessee, USA
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Despite thick forest and inadequate roads, the team managed to deliver the statue to Chennai Port and provide customs clearance and correct documentation. From there, it was loaded onto the vessel for Tanjung Pelapas where it was then transhipped to another vessel for the voyage from New York to Savannah. In view of the size of the statue, it had to be dismantled into 2 pieces and shipped on 2 x 40′ Flat Rack Containers.
Seahorse Shipping told us that this assignment was specially undertaken as a spiritual cause and on behalf of the whole Conqueror team, we would like to congratulate them on this.
Such was the significance of this shipment, that EXIM News featured it recently. To see the article, click here.
In a remote area 450km outside Kolkata, our agent undertook the rather difficult job of transporting six abandoned railway engines by road to the city where it was to be placed on flat rack containers, secured by lashings and successfully shipped to Felixstowe Port
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Each engine was taken apart at origin and shipped part by part which was rather challenging given the dilapidated condition of the engines. Getting the parts there without any further deterioration in their condition was crucial as once in the UK, they were to be reconditioned and exhibited.
Regional Forwarding Manager, Mr Ronee Sengupta told us, “The engines arrived safely at their destination which provided the perfect end to what was an extremely satisfying job for all involved.”
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