Conqueror’s representative in Rome, Milan and Macerata has launched a new service: Relocation
With a view to providing their clients with a complete service and to meet the increasing demands of the global market, G.L.T. Group has integrated their forwarding and logistics capabilities with this strategic service. The team provides highly qualified and tailored services for major companies, transferring their own and their clients’ personnel on assignments in Italy and throughout the world.
Whilst this may be a new service for G.L.T. Group, their Relocation specialists boast considerable international experience acquired with leading global companies, such as Technip, Saudi Aramco, Total, BP, Neste Oil, Agip Gas Libya, CNRL, Petrocanada, Odebrecht, Pavlodar Oil Chemistry Refinery, Sasol, Sabic.The team ensures a rapid, stress-free transfer for Clients’ personal belongings and their families, minimizing wasted time and simplifying the bureaucratic formalities to stay in their new place of residence. Their clients need not worry about the relocation of their own or their clients’ personal belongings as any problem is managed properly and professionally by their multilingual staff.
The services are tailored to their client’s specific requirements and always agreed with the client’s Human Resources Department, so as to ensure the particular needs, cultural sensitivities, religions and customs are taken into consideration. A rapid and serene settlement in their new Italian reality also ensures a rapid start to their production at their new workplace. And last but not least, thanks to strategic alliances with consolidated international relocation companies, G.L.T. Group is able to guarantee best-in-class services worldwide.
Relocation services are directly executed by W.L.O. World Logistics Organization, G.L.T. Group’s Company dedicated to integrated logistics.
ELITE Association of Logistics Networks of which Conqueror is a member has been featured in the most recent issue of Voice of the Independent, the only global publication devoted entirely to the freight forwarding community.
The magazine’s circulation comprises 23,000 global freight forwarder offices plus 2,500 industry partners including airlines, airports, ports, shipping lines, GSAs, charter brokers and industry associations.
CQR Istanbul will be performing all of Grief’s transport activities in the field of industrial packaging and packaging equipment from Grief’s facilities to England, Scandinavia and Switzerland. In addition, they will provide all customs operations in Sweden, Austria and England.
Grief is just one of CQR Istanbul’s newest clients, they will also begin serving on contract based operations to Carrefour Global Sourcing. The team will undertake Carrefour’s textile and outdoor clothing export products which were bought from Turkish manufacturers. The goods will be transported by road to Sweden, France, İtaly, Poland, Romania and Spain.
Conqueror would like to congratulate CQR Istanbul on these contracts!
Capt. S.B. Mazumder is Executive Director of Conqueror’s exclusive agent in Kolkata. Recently he spoke with us about how this company has grown from its humble origins to a logistics powerhouse in all the major cities across India.
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Q. Could you tell us a little about the history of the Seahorse Ship Agencies?
A. The company was founded in 1979 by two brothers Capt. Avinash C. Batra and Capt. Somesh C. Batra – both Master Mariners with a sea faring background. Initially, the business was started as a Cargo Surveyors and gradually it expanded into a shipping agency, empty container depot operator and also freight forwarding and logistics activities. Over the years, having expanded into various shipping activities, several companies were registered to “avoid conflict of interests among the various principals” and we call ourselves “THE SEAHORSE GROUP OF COMPANIES”. A few years prior to the global recession in 2008, we were also operating as NVOCC operators with leased containers. Fortunately, all containers were off hired just prior to the recession.
Over the years we have grown to a fairly large group of companies operating as the Indian Agent for several renowned Shipping Lines, namely Yang Ming Line, Korea Marine Transport Company Ltd., Ceylon Shipping Co. Ltd., Sanko Steamship Co. Ltd., BHP Billiton, and a few Chinese Tramp Ship Owners and Operators. Today, our group is considered to be one of the most professionally run shipping companies in India.
Q. When and how did you get into the industry and when did you join Seahorse?
A. I joined the company as Regional Manager on 1st June 1982 when the companies’ first branch office was opened in Kolkata Port. Gradually our offices expanded to the other metro cities of Chennai, New Delhi, Cochin, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam, Bangalore, Ludhiana, Ahmedabad, Kandla etc. In view of my long association with this group, I was elevated to the all India position of Executive Director based in Kolkata.
Q. The company has been in operation for 34 years now, what have been its most significant achievements during those years?
A. Firstly, I would have to say the commencement and expansion from a single office in Mumbai to 16 across India with a work force of about 370. I can honestly say that our staff are our biggest asset. Our reputation as a professional company resulted in acquiring the all India agency of 8 internationally renowned container shipping lines, bulk & break bulk shipping lines & agencies of two of the world’s leading container leasing companies, namely Textainer and Triton. Most of our Container Shipping Principals after several years of operating with us, have opened their own offices in India which has become the fashion. However, two of our valued Principals namely Yang Ming Line and Sanko Steamship Co. Ltd have both opened joint venture companies with our group in India at all port locations.
We also operate another fairly large business i.e. One of our Group Companies is the largest empty container storage depot operator in India having our own depots at every Port and ICD in India. We are continuously named the ‘Best Depot’ by the world’s largest container leasing company Textainer.
Q. Does Seahorse specialise in any particular type of shipment?
A. Moving import projects in India has become one of our key areas. Even though we are not a particularly large operator, we enjoy the challenge and financial rewards they bring. One of our most memorable such shipments was the movement of a water treatment plant machinery which arrived in 60 x 40’ OT/FR cargo from the Port of Haldia to the plant about 650 Km away.
Q. What was it about CONQUEROR that initially attracted you?
A. As a freight forwarder, we had used ‘unknown companies’ in the past from all over the world as partners. As a result, we have faced a considerable loss of business due to poor service from several overseas agents and a lot of unnecessary charges were collected at some destinations. Hence, we were keen to become a member of a good worldwide freight network and thus we came across CQR and decided to join up.
Q. How does being in CONQUEROR help Seahorse Ship Agencies?
A. We have found the member companies to be generally pro-active, prompt in response and professionally sound. Business growth generally is slower at the moment due to the global recession but we are confident that as part of this network, we will see better days ahead.
We are proud to announce that we have opened our own office at port Rijeka, which is located in the northern Adriatic Sea. The port of Riijeka is the largest port in Croatia handling the largest portion of the country’s imports and exports.
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The port of Rijeka is at the southern terminus of the Pan-European transport network corridor, representing a maritime extension of the rail and road routes leading to and from Rijeka. They include modern roads such as the A6 motorway, forming a part of the European route E65 and connecting Zagreb, Budapest and Vienna, and the A7 motorway, a part of the European route E61 and the E65. Rail links comprise single-track railway lines to Zagreb and to Pivka, Slovenia. There are plans to upgrade to a high performance, double-track railway.
We use the natural advantage of port Rijeka to ensure the quality of the services to our customers and partners. Our goals are to provide top-quality port services and develop business between port Rijeka and Central and Central-Eastern European countries.
Our professional staff can handle all type of cargoes (bulk, containers, ro-ro, frigo).
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!
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.
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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!
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.
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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.
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!
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.
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Evaristo brings over a decade’s worth of experience in increasingly responsible roles within the Logistics and Freight Forwarding Industry to his new role.