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CQR Delhi provides multinational services to a multinational client

Posted on 5 December, 2013 | by admin

CQR Delhi was recently chosen to provide ‘third country shipments solutions’ by one of its prestigious multinational clients. This contract is on a weekly basis for a number of months moving 10MT Solar Cell / Solar Wafers by air from China to the USA.

“We decided to call on CQR Qingdao for assistance with these shipments and as a result together we have already moved over 100MT and this is going to continue for the next few months. Together with S.F. Systems (Qingdao) Ltd, we have been able to provide a solution that only the multinationals could have offered,”explained Three Aces Global Director, Pankaj Agarwal.

Well done to CQR Delhi on initiating such a great partnership!

CQR Lagos become TRACE certified

Posted on 29 November, 2013 | by admin

TRACE has successfully completed a TRACE Certification due diligence review of Conqueror’s agent in Lagos, Nigeria

Trace has certified the company’s commitment to transparency in international commercial transactions.

TRACE works with companies to establish effective compliance programs tailored to address the unique circumstances of each company and designed to mitigate specific risks.

It is clear that an effective anti-bribery compliance programme not only provides companies with a defence against liability, but also assures shareholders, partners and clients that the organization operates transparently and ethically.

Members can be more confident than ever with regard to CQR Lagos!

Conqueror partners with 3rd Annual Supply Chain Middle East Strategy Summit

Posted on 27 November, 2013 | by admin

Supply Chain Strategy is an essential element for operational efficiency that plays a vital role in an organizations success. The importance of knowledgeable professionals skilled in SCM is critical to business operations.

The 3rd Annual Supply Chain Middle East Strategy Summit to be held on 11-12 February 2014 in Dubai will bring together supply chain experts and professionals to analyze on global trends.

The summit will expand on the opportunities and scope of growth within the Middle East and latest strategies of key functions. The 2 day conference will have panel discussions on the importance of sustainability and custom clearance within the GCC.

The conference over the past two years has proved itself to be a premier gathering of supply chain practitioners with more than 20 eminent speakers and over 150 high level delegates from gulf countries and worldwide.

Contact details:

Alphy Nangani – T: +971 4609 1570 – E: alphy.nangani@fleminggulf.com

To find out about discounts available for Conqueror members.

Please contact Anna Barton on abarton@conquerornetwork.com

To see other industry events Conqueror is partnering, click here.

CQR Mexico City welcomes new pricing manager

Posted on 22 November, 2013 | by admin

CQR Mexico City is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Evaristo Landero as the company’s new Pricing Manager

Evaristo brings over a decade’s worth of experience in increasingly responsible roles within the Logistics and Freight Forwarding Industry to his new role.

Evaristo will work closely with Conqueror members assisting them with any pricing queries. He will be working alongside Romina Guevara, Customer Service Director who, if you attended our meeting in Bangkok, you will have met and Operations Supervisor, Sandra Gamez.

Of working at Itrans, Evaristo had this to say,“It is a pleasure to be part of the team and I look forward to increasing the partnerships between Itrans and Conqueror members in the near future.”

On behalf of the CQR Head Office team and the network, we welcome Evaristo and wish him all the best with his career!

Prior planning prevents poor performance

Posted on 15 November, 2013 | by admin

Over the past few months, Conqueror’s exclusive agent in Athens, has been making a number of road transportations of steel cargo to be used in construction at Bad Bentheim in the north of Germany; 36 in fact.

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The dimensions were 14.00m X 3.50m X 4.00m with an average weight of 21.5 tons each. “To date our team has moved a total of 650 tons of steel over land on low bed – heavy duty trailers,” explained Vlasis Maragos, Operations Manager.

C.V.M.’s motto is ‘We can visualize your movements,’ meaning that have the ability to provide a smooth and stress-free door to door service for its clients and partners. These steel loadings in particular needed careful forethought, planning and coordination to ensure the correct transport permits for Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, and Germany as well as escort cars.

As the well-known phrase says, “’Prior planning prevents poor performance’, and this is what every member of our team understands and works by,” emphasized Vlasis.

CQR Mumbai strikes gold!

Posted on 8 November, 2013 | by admin

CQR Mumbai, has literally landed on a gold mine in terms of a group of specialized shipments it has been handling recently

The Modern Cargo team was chosen by global gold exporter Udaji International to move two Volvo Gold Excavators from the port of Mumbai to Tema in Ghana for use in the countries mines.

As I’m sure you can imagine, anything which is used for digging for gold is not going to be small! Each machine weighed 30 MT with dimensions of 34.44 by 10.46 by 11.25 feet (L W H).

This first shipment of two excavators was a trial run for the team so it really was all hands on deck to ensure success in securing the shipping of a further 16 such machines from Mumbai and 3 from Chennai.

After much planning and consultation, the shipping got underway and CQR Mumbai arranged transportation from the shipper’s door to the port of Mumbai on flat-bed trailers and then driven onto the Ro-Ro vessel.

With this Modern Cargo Services has further consolidated its position in the market as reliable service provider not only for general cargo shipments but also for the movement of specialized cargo.

Shipping hazardous cargo

Posted on 1 November, 2013 | by admin

Paperwork is probably the least favourite yet the most important part of shipping dangerous/hazardous goods and as a result, many forwarders shy away from them. This week, we are featuring two of our members who regularly make such shipments and whose teams thrive on the need for accuracy and time management.

One of those companies is CQR Kandla. Every week, they ship 10-15 containers of chemicals on behalf of M/s. Industrial Solvent Pvt Ltd from Mundra to cities in every corner of the world.

During the week we spoke with them, the team were handling various chemicals including Menthol, Toluene, Acetone, Hexane, Glycol and Ether EB packed in drums and liquid form. These were packed into a 20′ GP /40′ DC / 40′ Reefer / 20′ ISO tank and carried by CMA, MSC Evergreen, Zim and OSL. The Kandla team were responsible for all packing and stuffing.

When asked what one of the main challenges was of handling these shipments, Branch Manager, Ms Sheeja, had this to say, “The biggest challenge is dealing with shipping lines for DG approvals and of course the documentation process and the labelling of the chemicals. Thankfully, with these shipments being a weekly event, our team have become experts at this!”

Our second member to frequently ship non-hazardous chemicals is CQR Denmark. They ship additives to oil and gas producing countries around the Black and Caspian Seas. Their most recent shipment travelled from Rotterdam to Klaipeda by sea and then onward by truck with container chassis to Novorossiysk.

4 X 20′ ISO tank containers / capacity 24,000L / weight net 18-18.5 ton

As if the completion of all the import and export documentation wasn’t challenging enough to the time management of this shipment, Russia has introduced a new customs guarantee, whereby the TIR convention between itself and Belarus was cancelled. Nevertheless, this did not hamper the team as the shipment arrived intact and on time. They retain their status as ‘experts’ in this field.

Conqueror partners with TOC Container Supply Chain Middle East

Posted on 24 October, 2013 | by admin

Container Supply Chain Conference

Attend the Container Supply Chain conference to win new business hearing from and networking with Shippers, Carriers and 3PLs. The most impressive industry line up ever seen in the Middle East combined with a comprehensive networking programme.

Expert CSC speakers include:

DP World Mohammed Sharaf, Group CEO

DP World Mohammed Al Muallem, SVP & MD DP World UAE Region

Saudi Ports Authority Musaad Bin Abdurahman Al-Drees, Director General

Abu Dhabi Terminals Martijn Van de Linde, CEO

Maersk Line Lars Oestergaard Nielsen MD UAE, Qatar, Iran & Oman

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics Madhav Kurup, CEO (Middle East & N. Africa)

Gulftainer Jay New Commercial Director

Milaha Michel Deleuran, Executive Vice President

Trade exhibition & TECH TOC conference

Attend the free trade exhibition & TECH TOC the terminal operations conference and be up to date with the latest port & terminal innovations. Both the Trade Exhibition & the TECH TOC track are free to visitors simply register for priority entrance & free event guide on arrival.

Expert TECH TOC speakers include:

Aqaba Container Terminal Anas Al Muhaisen, Operations Manager

APM Terminals Pipav Prakash Tulsiani, Managing Director

Jade Software Capt. Kaustubh Dalvi, Director of Business Development

Solid Port Solutions Joost Achterkamp, Managing Director

Bander Abbas Port Authority Behzad Alsafi, Senior Expert Port & Maritime Organisation of Iran

Exhibitors include:

DP World • Liebherr • Saudi Ports Authority • Kalmar • Gulftainer • Gaussin • Abu Dhabi Terminals • ABB Crane Systems • Jade Software • Hyster • MCS • Siemens • Prysmian • Musco Lighting • Camco….

For more information, please contact:

Suzanne Tiago | Marketing Manager | TOC Events Worldwide

E: marketing@toc-events.com | T: 00 44 207 027 7023.

To find out about discounts available for Conqueror members, please contact Anna Barton on abarton@conquerornetwork.com .

To see other industry events Conqueror is partnering, click here

Interview with CQR Dalian

Posted on 18 October, 2013 | by admin

Balance Wang, General Manager and owner of our member in Dalian, recently chatted with the CQR team about the company and how it has changed in the ten years since its foundation. He also let us in on his most memorable shipments and what the next 10 years hold for the company.

Q. Tell us a little about your company.

A. Dalian Uniline Shipping was founded 10 years ago and is approved and registered by China’s economic and trade commission NVOCC (MOC-NV05344). Our head office is in Dalian and this is the office we hold in Conqueror, but we also have branches in the main ports in China such as Tianjin, Shanghai, Qingdao, Haerbin. I am extremely fortunate to have a professional team who are capable of providing door to door services for DDP and DDU shipments including loading and customs.

Q. Does your company specialise in any particular kind of shipment?

A. China ranks in the top 5 countries globally for food exports and so consequently a one-stop-shop export service for perishables is big business for us. In addition, we are also experienced in exporting large machines and minerals.

Q. What would be Dalian’s most memorable shipment to date?

A. Well there have been many over the past decade but if I have to choose, it would be a 5000ton end-end shipment of soybeans to Korea in just 7 days. We successfully completed the seeming impossible job and it certainly proved our team’s ability to liaise and cooperate well.

Q. Next year, the company will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. Over the past decade, what has been your proudest moment as manager?

A. I think my proudest moment is now, as I look back over the past decade and see the branches we have established, our quick but yet stable business expansion and the professional staff which have joined us to make Dalian even stronger. We have also gradually developed lasting business partnerships with overseas agents.

Q. Where do you see Dalian Uniline Shipping in another 10 years?

A. We should see a significant increase in the volume of business the company is handling and thanks to the strengthening of international cooperation, we should have even more partnerships worldwide. I also hope that over the next decade our company will be ranked in the top 10 international logistics companies in the industry.

Q. Both you and Coco attended this year’s annual meeting. How useful was it to meet members face to face in terms of building business relationships?

A. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for the conference. We met and got to know many agents which we now consider partners. It was a great opportunity to learn about the different services they can provide us with and how we can help each other in our mutual goal of expanding our businesses.

Q. Do you plan on attending the 3rd Annual Conqueror Meeting in Kuala Lumpur next year?

A. Yes, we will be there so that we can get to know more agents and increase our cooperation with other members.

We are thrilled to hear Balance and Coco will be attending next year’s annual meeting. They certainly understand the benefits it can bring their business.

Conqueror makes it to 3PLnews.com

Posted on 17 October, 2013 | by admin

Conqueror, the world’s first virtual multinational, is now an official partner to industry exhibitions worldwide.

Designed to bring small and medium sized independent forwarders together to compete with the big multinationals, Conqueror understands the need to spread the name of their global brand to their members potential clients and partners.

“Conqueror is an attractive option for shippers who seek the service quality that only independent local agents provide, combined with the global scope, dimensions, and competitiveness of a large multinational group. Our international campaign publicizing the brand stresses the quality of our membership and the discipline of our organization,” explained Antonio Torres, Managing Director.

Currently the network has coverage in 193 cities in 97 countries and employs more than 15,000 people. Conqueror is a member of ELITE, the industry’s only recognized grouping of quality independent freight forwarder networks, representing over 3,550 companies with annual revenues in excess of US$60 billion

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