Original news was published on 09 September, 2015

AAL announced the opening of a new office in Seoul, South Korea. The move confirms the company’s commitment to strengthening its infrastructure across key markets for heavy lift, breakbulk and project cargo.

AAL has been servicing the Korean market since its inception 20 years ago.  The company established a local presence in the country through the appointment of an owners’ representative in 2005; the new AAL office will add further commercial and technical capabilities to support the company’s growing global operations and to provide its customers with more value added services.

Wolfgang Harms, deputy managing director of AAL and its Chief Representative in the North Asia Region explained, “Establishing AAL Korea was the next logical step for us in the region, and bolsters our wider international growth strategy. This move also enables us to deliver service excellence to our Korean customers, with greater on-the-ground commercial and operational support, and a smoother interconnection with our rapidly growing network across Asia.

He added, “We have a very strong business base in Korea, built on good relationships with local customers and mutual trust. We see great potential going forward within all types of industries, and we want to invest further in our presence and the development of our brand in this important region.”

Jae Hong Kim, representative director of AAL Korea commented, “Korea is a pivotal Asian market for our global clients. With two decades of working locally, we understand our customers’ needs and, through our bespoke tramp and regular liner services, offer flexibility, efficiency and reliability.  We also provide open access to key global markets and a single-minded commitment to safe and efficient cargo handling.”

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We are also pleased that Managing Director, Peter Schweizer will be attending our coming Annual Meeting in Malaysia at 12,13,14 November 2015. The gathering will be a great opportunity to meet all OPCA partners. Please click here for full information on our event. We are looking forward to meet you all soon.

By their registration to the November meeting, now INTERNATIONAL PROJECT LOGISTICS PTY. LTD. has the privilege of becoming OPCA member till September 2016. It would be our pleasure to serve our new agent for a long term cooperation in our group.  

COMPANY PROFILE 

With over 25 years of global project logistics experience, International Project Logistics is a global logistics provider for companies requiring transport of heavy lift, project-related and oversized cargoes with a hands on approach. International Project Logistics is a 100% Australian owned and operated company with their head office conveniently located in Sandgate (Brisbane) Australia.

With highly experienced staff, International Project Logistics offers total logistics management, technical support and freight forwarding expertise to ensure a cost effective solution to accommodate specific delivery needs of our valued clients.

You can click here to see more information about services of our new agent.

Original news was published on 07 September, 2015

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has flown 28 cypress trees to Tashkent, Uzbekistan onboard one of its IL-76TD-90VD freighters.

The 7.5 m tall trees were grown at a nursery in Germany and transported to Brno in the Czech Republic, from where they were flown to Tashkent for a landscape reconstruction project - part of the city's preparations to host the 2016 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.

Volga-Dnepr operated the flight on behalf of Russian logistics company Haltec-Avia.

"The trees were packed inside special protective boxes that were too tall to be loaded using the aircraft's onboard crane system," explained Volga-Dnepr Airlines sales executive Vyacheslav Shakhov.

"In order to avoid the costly rental of external cranes we brought our own special loading equipment from Leipzig to the Czech Republic, which enabled us to load the trees using the aircraft's ramp and rail system, and a forklift truck."

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Dear Project Cargo Specialists, 

Great partners are going on to join Overseas Project Cargo Association all around the world. Today it is our pleasure to announce you that PT. GLOBAL FREIGHT CONSOLIDATAMA is our new member from INDONESIA.

We are also pleased that Managing Director, Angela Ramli  & Senior Manager Operation and Business Development, Tan Bien Hui will be attending our coming Annual Meeting in Malaysia at 12,13,14 November 2015. The gathering will be a great opportunity to meet all OPCA partners. Please click here for full information on our event. We are looking forward to meet you all soon.

By their registration to the November meeting, now PT. GLOBAL FREIGHT CONSOLIDATAMA has the privilege of becoming OPCA member till September 2016. It would be our pleasure to serve our new agent for a long term cooperation in our group.  

COMPANY PROFILE 

PT Global Freight Consolidatama began its practice in Indonesia on 1989 as a branch of the Singapore-based Global Group. What started as a humble beginning to improve multiple-scale businesses’ supply chain grew into one of the most reliable logistics service provider in the country.

 Headquartered in the West of Jakarta, our dedicated team is continuously striving to serve our vast line of customers and working side by side in delivering their products into wherever it needs to go, efficiently and effectively.

 We move by the ‘going for customer delight’ principle and we are proud to keep the promise alive up until today. Be it live aquatics, electronics merchandise, retail apparel to large scale aviation spare parts, we are committed to excel your company into greater heights, for we believe good supply chain solution is the key to keep your business growing.

You can click here to download company profile of PT. Global Freight Consolidatama.

Original news was published on 01 September, 2015

Hansa Heavy Lift's vessel HHL Tyne has arrived at the Port of Duluth's Clure Public Marine Terminal carrying wind turbine components for the Thunder Spirit wind farm in North Dakota.

31 wind turbine blades, as well as nacelles, were loaded onboard HHL Tyne in Castellon, Spain and arrived at Duluth via the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway.

This is the fifth of seven shipments of Nordex wind energy equipment for the 107 MW farm to be offloaded at the Port of Duluth this summer, before being transported overland to Hettinger, North Dakota.

The wind energy project, under construction by Allete Clean Energy (ACE), will consist of 43 wind turbines and is scheduled for completion by December 2015.

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Original news was published on 21 August, 2015

Silk Way West has taken delivery of the third from an order of five Boeing 747-8 freighters.

The airline said its new freighter will perform flights to Singapore and Komatsu, Japan.

According to the contract with Boeing, Silk Way West will acquire two further 747-8 freighters from Boeing, with their arrival in Azerbaijan expected in the first half of 2016.

With the acquisition of new Boeing 747-8 freighters, Silk Way West expects to expand its air cargo business, the airline added.

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Congratulations GSN Freight Forwarding India Pvt Ltd.

We are very happy to share with you that our India member GSN FREIGHT FORWARDING PVT LTD has been certificated for ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System for providing 'Logistics Services' to their customers.

Hereby let us share with you that Mr. Malik Shariff already completed his registration for OPCA 2nd AGM KL, Malaysia.We are looking forward to meet you all in Kuala Lumpur.

Please click here to download last updated company profile of GSN Freight Forwarding India Pvt Ltd.

Original news was published on 19 August, 2015

Hansa Heavy Lift (HHL) successfully carried a shiploader weighing over 560 tonnes from Nantong, China to Portland, USA, for Sandvik Mining and Construction.

HHL vessel Richards Bay transported the shiploader measuring 36.50 m x 56.44 m x 31.50 m, discharging it at the Port of Portland where it was installed under the direction of Sandvik. 

"The biggest challenge was to lift the shiploader over the conveyor rail at the Port of Portland, whilst ensuring neither sustained damaged," said Gareth Hamer, head of cargo management for HHL Americas.

The operation took a total of five days. HHL required the use of three lifting beams to manoeuvre the shiploader, as it only had lifting trunnions on one side. The size of the cargo and narrow width of the pier meant that the third lifting beam had to be lowered onto a barge after the cargo had been discharged.

The transportation was completed safely and on time, HHL chief commercial officer Joerg Roehl stated.

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Dear Project Cargo Specialists, 

Very Professional agents are going on to join Overseas Project Cargo Association all around the world. Today we are very happy to announce you that INTEGRAL CHILE S.A. has joined among us from CHILE.

We are also pleased that CEO, Dalia Cordova  & Projects Manager, Maria Luz Carreno will be attending our coming Annual Meeting in Malaysia at 12,13,14 November 2015. The gathering will be a great opportunity to meet all OPCA partners. Please click here for full information on our event. We are looking forward to meet you all soon.

By their registration to the November meeting, now INTEGRAL CHILE S.A. has the privilege of becoming OPCA member till August 2016. It would be our pleasure to serve our new agent for a long term cooperation in our group.  

INTEGRAL CHILE S.A.    
ADDRESS: Apoquindo 6433 Oficina 214, Las Condes,7570014 Santiago, Chile 
CONTACTS: Dalia Cordova / CEO
Maria Luz Carreno / Projects Manager 
TEL: +56 2 2430 2430 
WEB: www.integralchile.com 

COMPANY PROFILE 

Integral Chile S.A. is a Logistics and Transport Engineering Company. They have high qualified personnel that permanently update their technological knowledge, also regularly update hardware and software to meet all user needs and demands. They focus in sales and customer satisfaction.

Services with added value

- Integrated Logistics
- Consulting
- Warehousing and Inventory Management
- Customs Services
- Grupage, Consolidation, Pallets, Packing and Labeling
- Distribution (at origin and destination)
- Online Tracking
- Door to Door service
- DDP-DDU service                           

Original news was published on 17 August, 2015

The Port of Setúbal is looking to develop one or two new areas.

The Portuguese Port of Setúbal is soliciting expressions of interest in the international market to develop one or two new port areas.

The first, in the central area of the port, located between the ro-ro terminal and the Sapec terminal, offers the potential to develop 1900m on new quays in three phases, with a final capacity for 1.5M TEU/year of shortsea and feeder traffic, on  top of the existing port capacity for 0.5M TEU.

The second, known as the "Blue Atlantic" project, envisages construction of 800m of new quay between the Alstom Terminal and the Trem Naval, with the possibility of developing a major new industrial and logistics park adjacent to SapecBay.   

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