Posts Tagged "bali logistics"

This time last year European Abnormal Freight Ltd (EAF) was asked in April 2011 to help move the 117 tonne, 4 metre square granite Tsunami Memorial from France to London. As freight forwarding projects go it was the biggest transportation of a single piece of stone in the UK or France since the building of Stonehenge and the tale of how the giant piece came to arrive at the Natural History Museums gardens is worth telling. Transports Courcelle in France were granted the haulage contract whilst EAF was appointed the UK Transport Project Manager whose management role was to provide full route planning with owner Marc Wodehouse taking personal control. The UK Highways Agency had stipulated that, once the convoy arrived by ferry from Cherbourg into Poole,...

Following our story earlier today commenting on the Q3 statistics of container shipping giant Maersk, the logistics arm of the Danish group, Damco, has now released its own independent third quarter figures. These reveal that year to date Damco’s ocean freight volumes increased 14% compared with the same period in 2010 and airfreight tonnage was up by 23% lifted through the acquisition of China based NTS. Supply chain activity volumes fell back 3% and net revenue rose to $2,156 million, a 6% jump, whilst gross profits increased to $567.7 million up 8%. The year to date EBIT is static at $73.2 million. Rolf Habben-Jansen, Chief Executive Officer, Damco commented: “The traditional annual peak season in Q3 was rather muted this year. Our result...

KOMPAS.com — Wakil Presiden Boediono dijadwalkan akan membuka forum Indonesia Logistics Summit (ILS) 2011 yang diadakan di Jakarta Convention Center (JCC), Jakarta, Kamis (10/11/2011) siang. Pertemuan yang membahas segala sesuatu terkait logistik ini akan berlangsung selama dua hari, yakni 10-11 November 2011. Adapun tema yang diusung adalah “Locally Integrated, Globally Connected”. Beberapa sesi diskusi akan menghiasi pertemuan yang akan diikuti oleh para pelaku usaha, pejabat pemerintah, hingga lembaga internasional seperti Bank Dunia. Diskusi akan dilakukan demi memecahkan permasalahan yang terjadi di bidang logistik, khususnya dalam menghadapi integrasi bidang ini di lingkup ASEAN pada tahun 2013. Salah satu masalah...

Bali Cargo – Nilai ekspor Provinsi Bali ke Rusia mencapai 1,4 juta dolar AS selama periode Januari-September 2011 atau mengalami kenaikan hingga 34,5 persen dibandingkan periode sama 2010 yang hanya 1,1 juta dolar AS. “Kenaikan nilai ekspor nonmigas itu antara lain disumbangkan oleh aneka barang kerajinan buatan masyarakat daerah ini, hasil pertanian dan perkebunan,” kata Kasi Ekspor Dinas Perindustrian dan Perdagangan Bali, Putu Bagiada, di Denpasar, Sabtu. Perdagangan luar negeri ke Rusia cukup menggembirakan dalam situasi yang kurang menguntungkan terutama jika dikaitkan dengan krisis ekonomi yang terjadi di Eropa dan Amerika Serikat. Bertambah banyak realisasi perdagangan aneka barang kerajinan bernilai seni buatan pengrajin Bali itu...

AFGHANISTAN / IRAQ / MONGOLIA – Specialist freight service providers Move One Logistics have announced the opening of three new facilities in Asia to help provide their customers with improved services in some of the most difficult operating regions on Earth. In April Move One announced that it had begun construction of a new base of operation at Az Zubayr, part of a wider restructuring and centralization of Move One’s Southern Iraq offices. Since then the new compound has developed rapidly and is now operational and open for business. The new facility will be used as Move One’s primary receiving and distribution centre. Centrally located it will provide logistics and project management services to the oil industry not only at both the North and South...