CQR Tel Aviv was recently hired to transport a million-pound work of art from Portugal to Israel by one of its prestigious Israeli clients. The piece of art consisted of 1000 steel figures and stood 12m X 2.9m and weighed 4,500kg.
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Due to the high value and oversized dimensions, Jacky Line got together 3 of its experienced team who were then solely responsible for arranging the lashing, securing, escorting, loading under deck from origin up to placing the statue at its final destination, a private residence.
Moving an object of this nature is no easy feat as the pictures show, but including positioning of the crane with up to150 tons support, Jacky Line is proud to say that the whole project went smoothly from beginning to end.
From across 63 countries, 117 members of the industry’s only network of audited partners, Conqueror Freight Network, gathered for its 3rd Annual Meeting in May 2014.The Intercontinental, Kuala Lumpur provided the setting for the annual Conqueror meeting, where participants were there to assist each other in driving forward their businesses in pursuit of conquering the world.
“Cooperation is one important element in our triad of tools for boosting the business volume of our members; another is our city-exclusivity, like the multinationals, and the third and most important is our annual meeting. As you can see, members are making the most of their individual meetings as well as competing for each other’s attention away from them,” explained Mr Antonio Torres, Managing Director of Conqueror Freight Network.
“I have to say that prior to last year’s meeting, I was sceptical about the benefits of attending such meetings but I can honestly say that as a direct result of meeting our fellow members in 2013, we saw a noticeable increase in shipments from fellow members and I firmly believe that the same will happen again this year,” said one member.
Conqueror Freight Network is no longer the new kid on the block. This well-established alliance of carefully selected independent freight forwarders is also celebrating a significant milestone at its annual meeting; covering 200 cities in 100 countries; its current coverage stands at 214 cities in 105 countries.
Last month, saw the launch at Yantai airport of the first step in CQR Qingdao’s latest venture as Air Incheon’s GSA & GHA in China
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Currently, they are operating 3 flights per week (Tues, Thurs, Sat) from Yantai to Incheon and Narita airports with full cargo freighters (Boeing 737) and narrow body aircrafts but they are expecting to increase to 5 flights a week very soon.
Customers include DHL Express, LG and Foxconn and the majority of the cargo is time-sensitive and electronic products which are packed in PMC pallet(main)&PAG/PAJ pallet and LD3/AKE containers(main)&AAY containers.
The team are responsible for all documentation, government approval and permission (by CAAC,ECRA),ground handling agreements, signing with the airport group, organizing necessary training and translating training materials into Chinese, aircraft movement data(MVT&FPL) receiving and dispatching, collecting and sending, aircraft inward/outward declaring etc., and of course marketing surveys and sales.
“This is real challenge for SF Systems Qingdao because this is the first time we have been involved in air market operations so deeply, in addition of course to doing local sales work as normal. This is an important step for our company’s development,” explained XiangYu, General Manager Assistant.
In addition to the normal trade routes between China, Korea and Japan, they are also operating services from Incheon to Yuzhno-Sakhalin in Russia for the oil and gas industry with a regular service but at more reasonable rates.
“We hope that our fellow CQR members who have these kinds of shipments in this area will contact SF Systems Qingdao to be their air project cargo solution provider,” said Xiang Yu.
From across 63 countries, 117 members of the industry’s only network of audited partners, Conqueror Freight Network, gathered for its 3rd Annual Meeting, 9th – 11th May. The Intercontinental, Kuala Lumpur provided the setting for the 3rd Annual Conqueror Meeting, hosting 117 agents from across 63 countries who were all their to assist each other in driving forward their businesses in pursuit of conquering the world.
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“Co-operation is one important element in our triad of tools for boosting the business volume of our members; another is our city-exclusivity, like the multinationals, and the third and most important is our annual meeting. As you can see, members are making the most of their individual meetings as well as competing for each other’s attention away from them,” explained Antonio Torres, Managing Director of Conqueror Freight Network.
I have to say that prior to last year’s meeting, I was sceptical about the benefits of attending such meetings but I can honestly say that as a direct result of meeting our fellow members in 2013, we saw a noticeable increase in shipments from fellow members and I firmly believe that the same will happen again this year,” said one member.
Conqueror Freight Network is no longer the new kid on the block. This well-established alliance of carefully selected independent freight forwarders is also celebrating a significant milestone at its annual meeting; covering 200 cities in 100 countries; its current coverage stands at 214 cities in 105 countries.
The network has a combined annual turnover of USD 2.2 billion employing over 17,000 freight professionals who handle over 1.05 million shipments each year comprising of 175.000 tons of airfreight cargo and 600.000 TEUS of seafreight cargo, making this exclusive network a top 10 player in the global market.
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“With only 1 in every 10 applications passing our selection process, reaching such a milestone is not as easy as you may think,” emphasised Torres, “We have worked hard to find only the best agents for the network and removing any company found to be only taking shipments and not offering any.”
Back in November, we informed you that CQR Itajai had been nominated as the official logistics provider for the 11th Transat Jacques Vabre ocean race. On behalf of CQR Itajai, we would like to give you an update on how it went.
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Hired by the organisers, Quantum successfully coordinated the entire logistics operation, including all the air and ocean shipments of the support materials for the event from France to Brazil, customs clearance, management of supplies and boats and inland transportation from port and airport to the ocean race village and back again.
At the end of the event the boats were returned to Lorient on board a break bulk ship in which the stowage happened by lashing and lifting the boats from seaside of the vessel directly on deck in a delicate counter board operation. To see how delicate, check out Quantum’s video!
In total, the team were responsible for 28 boats of all classes.
16 Class 40’s
4 Multi 50’s
6 IMOCA’S
2 MOD 70’s
Conqueror would like to congratulate the team on this achievement!
Our member in Lagos is pleased to announce the appointment of its new General Manager, Mr Alfred Albert Thamm.
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Mr Thamm is a very experienced international and notable logistician with almost thirty years experience in almost every aspect of Shipping and Logistics, including; commercial sales and marketing, general operations, mining and construction, O + G, Charter operations, Ships and Port Operations and Energy.
During his career, Mr Thamm has been Logistics Manager at Sandvik Material Handling, Johannesburg; Key Account Manager with F. H. Bertling Logistics, Johannesburg; General Manager, Bertling Logistics, Ghana; Logistics Manager with OBT Shipping Limited, Freetown Sierra Leone. His last position prior to Fortune Global was DHL Industrial Projects, Accra Ghana where he worked as Industrial Project Manager.
Mr Thamm will be available to take all your business inquiries on behalf of Fortune Global.
In November 2013, the EU declared that after years of isolation Myanmar was beginning to open its doors to democracy, foreign investment and a liberal economy and thus that companies in both Europe and Myanmar would be able to take advantage of new opportunities as the country reintegrates into the global economy.
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One company benefitting from this new status quo is CQR Klaipeda (JSC Baltic Marine) who recently took responsibility for shipping six water filters from Liban via Klaipeda to Yangon.
The team carried out an end to end service with upgrade, paint covering, customs formalities, loading, lashing, securing to name but a few of the tasks. The water filters were loaded onto two flat-racks and shipped by OOCL. The team were responsible for making the upgrade at the customer’s request in Klaipeda prior to the onward journey to Yangon.
When asked if there were any particular challenges to this shipment, Mantas Sakalauskas General Manager told us that, ‘Choosing the correct covering for the filters was crucial firstly to avoid any potential scratches. But also something which could cope with the climate it would be going to, the tropics! Any water on the paint would of course risk corrosion.’
Of course while this was a challenge it was not an unbeatable one for the JSC Baltic Marine and the 6 water filters were successfully delivered on May Day.
From across 63 countries, 117 members of the industry’s only network of audited partners, Conqueror Freight Network, gathered for its 3rd Annual Meeting, 9th – 11th May
The Intercontinental, Kuala Lumpur provided the setting for the 3rd Annual Conqueror Meeting, hosting 117 agents from across 63 countries who were all their to assist each other in driving forward their businesses in pursuit of conquering the world.
“Co-operation is one important element in our triad of tools for boosting the business volume of our members; another is our city-exclusivity, like the multinationals, and the third and most important is our annual meeting. As you can see, members are making the most of their individual meetings as well as competing for each other’s attention away from them,” explained Antonio Torres, Managing Director of Conqueror Freight Network.
MALAYSIA – WORLDWIDE – The third annual meeting of the Conqueror Freight Network in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month saw 117 members from 63 countries gather to celebrate the success of what has been called ‘the new kid on the block’ which now covers 214 cities in 105 countries by way of its audited partners. The network now boasts a combined annual turnover of $2.2 billion employing over 17,000 freight professionals who handle over a million shipments each year comprising 175.000 tons of airfreight cargo and 600,000 TEU of ocean borne cargo, which Conqueror says makes it a top ten player in the global market.
“With only 1 in every 10 applications passing our selection process, reaching such a milestone is not as easy as you may think. We have worked hard to find only the best agents for the network and removing any company found to be only taking shipments and not offering any. Marketing can be incredibly costly to independent companies and yet they cannot allow themselves to become stagnant in this area which is why we try to assist our members as much as we can. We want to give our agents the tools to compete in an ever competitive global market. Our third meeting has seen an increase of 31% in territories represented. I don’t think I need say anymore!”
In addition to the 2000 one to one meetings on offer, delegates at the recent event were treated to the latest phase in Conqueror’s strategy for helping its members better market themselves against the multinationals, which began last year with a personalised member brochure. This year saw the launch of a personalised member website, of which the designing costs will be completely absorbed by the network. Antonio Torres, Managing Director of the Conqueror Freight Network, commented:
“Co-operation is one important element in our triad of tools for boosting the business volume of our members; another is our city-exclusivity, like the multinationals, and the third and most important is our annual meeting. As you can see, members are making the most of their individual meetings as well as competing for each other’s attention away from them.
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From across 63 countries, 117 members of the industry’s only network of audited partners, Conqueror Freight Network, gathered for its 3rd Annual Meeting, 9th – 11th May
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The Intercontinental, Kuala Lumpur provided the setting for the 3rd Annual Conqueror Meeting, hosting 117 agents from across 63 countries who were all their to assist each other in driving forward their businesses in pursuit of conquering the world.
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