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NOTICIAS MES DE MARZO DE 2002 (NEWS)
 

27/03/02 Wallenius Wilhelmsen organizes for market growth and new synergies

Wallenius Wilhelmsen, the Norwegian-Swedish world leader in Roll-on Roll-off ocean services, logistics management and inland services, has changed its organization to better define its products and services.

Three new business units have been created:

- Ocean Services

- Logistics Management

- Inland Services.

"Our new organization will lead to even stronger customer focus in every field of our business. Each business unit will be managed with its own profit and loss responsibility," says Ingar Skaug, CEO of Wallenius Wilhelmsen.

"The past few years we have seen a tremendous new business potential in logistics management at the same time as our inland activities have grown. Now we get a strong focus to continue to grow our three core businesses but will also leverage synergies to develop business with global accounts, especially among global manufacturers of vehicles and heavy machinery for construction and agriculture."

The Ocean Services and Logistics Management business units will be run from Wallenius Wilhelmsen's offices in Oslo, Norway. The Inland Services business unit will be run from Wallenius Wilhelmsen's offices in London, UK. Wallenius Wilhelmsen's regional organization with headquarters in the US, Sweden/Belgium, Australia and Japan is not subject to change.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen is the world's largest provider of vehicle and Roll-On Roll-off transportation services. The company provides logistics management solutions, combining deep-sea and short-sea shipping with inland activities such as vehicle processing (pre-delivery services and inspections) and transportation. Wallenius Wilhelmsen transports 1.8 million vehicles by sea and 1.4 million vehicles by land annually.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen General Agents in Argentina :

Messrs. Agencia Maritima Robinson Tel: +54 11 4331 1482

26/03/02 The Port of Tanjung Pelepas, one of South East Asia most modern port introduces electronic vessel clearance

The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), South-east Asia's fastest growing port was officially opened by the Prime Minister of Malaysia on 13 March 2000. The port is located the Southern tip of Peninsular Malaysia, destined to become South-east Asia's leading transhipment hub because of its strategic location at the confluence of major international shipping routes has emerged recently as one of Port of Singapore Corp. most aggressive competitors. Easily accessible from the Straits of Malacca, PTP is situated in South-West Johor. Occupying 783 hectares, PTP is a naturally sheltered deep water port.

Since beginning operations, PTP has surged ahead in attracting regular main line services. In August 2000, PTP secured Maersk Sealand as a stratagic partner with the shift expected to bring an annual volume of 2 million TEUs yearly. PTP was also awarded the 'Best Emerging Container Terminal Award' by Lloyd's List in October 2000.

PTP is now shaping up as the region's most modern port with the latest port equipment and a user friendly state-of-the-art IT infrastructure connecting all port users and relevant agencies to guarantee a fast, reliable and efficient world-class service.

Electronic vessel clearance and five new rubber-tyred gantry cranes are expected to boost efficiency at Malaysia's nascent container port.

The paperless Vessel Clearance System (VCS) will do away with the previous system of requesting port clearances involving manual submissions to four government agencies, including: Royal Customs & Excise, Marine, Health and Immigration Departments.

The VCS is the first of its kind to be implemented in a Malaysian port and according to PTP's chief executive, Mohd Sidik Shaik Osman: 'The electronic Vessel Clearance System is part of the port's effort in providing efficient services in handling and also clearance. The implementation of the system will ensure better utilisation of resources by shipping agents, thus reducing redundancy. These innovations are in line with our aspiration to establish PTP as a leading transhipment hub in the region.'

The port also received five rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes from Noell Crane Systems in January this year as part of its first phase of expansion plans.

Capacity expansion which included 15 RTG cranes, the initial five of which it received in January.

The port currently has 52 RTGs, 14 Super Post Panamax quay cranes and an additional 10 quay cranes that will be operational by end-2002.

Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) handling capacity is expected to increase to 5.0 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a year with the receipt of its additional yard cranes.

22/03/02 NYK Joins Multiple Portals

NYK Line has announced that it will join three shipping industry e-Commerce portals: GT Nexus, INTTRA and Cargo Smart.

            

This decision by NYK management was attributed to their long standing, customer-focused philosophy, looking forward to provide customers with flexible options to access their NYK shipment information with maximum flexibility and convenience.

Mr. Tsunenari Tokugawa, Executive Vice President, NYK Line Tokyo commented, "NYK has a strong belief that customers should be the center of e-Commerce initiatives. Participation with GT Nexus, INTTRA and Cargo Smart is in line with our 'Customer Center' philosophy. We want to be more responsive to customers' diverse requirements and provide them with more options for doing business with NYK."

NYK has become competitive in the world of e-Commerce by promoting its own Internet and e-Commerce initiative, Pegasus. The success of Pegasus, with its advanced technology and, enables NYK to smoothly integrate with the three additional portals. Although many other carriers are members of one of the three, NYK Line will be the first carrier to join multiple portals.

NYK Line offers their own on-line applications through its website at www.nykline.com: Schedules; Container Tracking; Rate Inquiry; Booking; Shipping Instructions; Bill-of-Lading Processing; Cargo Tracing; Shipment Details.

Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK), founded in 1885, is Japanese largest marine transportation company with operations spanning the globe. NYK group operate some 758 vessels that provide a broad range of shipping services that include container, cruise, tramp, and specialized transport services. The Company also offers logistics services in a highly integrated transportation network.

NYK Line Signs on as Fifteenth Carrier in INTTRA's Global Logistics Network , Addition of Japan-based carrier expands INTTRA's presence in the Asian market, being the first Asian carrier to join the INTTRA. INTTRA has more than 1,200 registered shippers and freight forwarders around the globe, and has managed more than 160,000 bookings and 1.7 million container events since going live in October 2001.

Japan's largest container shipping line becomes 13th major ocean carrier to join GT Nexus Network, which now includes Japan's top three maritime shipping companies together with MOL (Mitsui-OSK Lines) and "K" Line. NYK Line is expected to begin supporting transactions over the GT Nexus Network within the next 30 days.

20/03/02 SHIPCO Transport Inc., the wellknown NVOCC launched upgraded website. Beyond a complete aesthetic revamp, the new website; including all their previous features is now more user friendly - www.shipco.com

Technology took the forefront for Shipco. The company launched new website (still to be found at www.shipco.com). As well as a complete aesthetic revamp, the new website is now more user friendly. While incorporating the same features as previous - interactive sailing schedule, on-line quotation and booking requests, these features have also been it is now been given an overhaul to make them more user friendly. Of specific interest to customers is surely the updated booking request feature.

Clients can now register on the website. They are immediately given a unique logon and password. Simply by entering this, their company details are automatically brought on to the screen. Once the required fields have been completed on the booking request form, a confirmed booking number is automatically supplied, meaning the customer can then proceed with their own paperwork, safe in the knowledge that their booking is already in the Shipco 's system and the number will apply to the shipment throughout the entire shipping process. The last version allows the printing of Bills of Lading in PDF format directly from the web site tracking program.

SHIPCO Transport Inc. was established in 1988 as a subsidiary of the European transportation group Scan-Shipping A/S, headquartered in Copenhagen - Denmark. SHIPCO is a neutral NVOCC working in close cooperation with its own offices and associates / agents around the world. As such, SHIPCO offers a wide range of services including Less than Container Load (LCL), Full Container Load (FCL), both import and export, as well as a comprehensive Airfreight Program and the facility to handle project cargo

On the back of all the technological advances for 2001, Shipco is sure that 2002 will see even more developments, further strengthening Shipco's position as one of the industry's leaders in e-commerce.

SHIPCO representative in Argentina:

Family Express S.R.L.

Web Site: http://www.family-express.com.ar

E-Mail: info@family-express.com.ar

18/03/02 Evergreen starts new service to the West Coast of South America

In May 2002, Evergreen Marine Corporation is to add the West Coast of South America to its global container service network through the launch of a new service linking its Caribbean hub port in Coco Solo, Panama with five ports in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile.

Four ships are to be employed on this new Panama- West Coast South America (PWS) service. They are the 1.555TEU sisterships LT Africa and LT Europa plus the 964TEU Uni-Forever and 956TEU Uni-Fortune. All are equipped with their own shipboard cranes, a necessity on the West Coast of South America, and are equipped with onboard reefer plugs to meet with the local market requirements for refrigerated container capacity.

They will provide a fixed-day weekly service with the following port rotation: Coco Solo - Buenaventura - Guayaquil - Callao - Iquique - Valparaiso - Callao - Guayaquil - Buenaventura - Coco Solo.

The Colon Container Terminal (CCT) in Coco Solo currently features on two mainline Evergreen schedules, the AUE and NUE services with calls both eastbound and westbound, and is also the base port for a comprehensive Caribbean and Central American regional feeder network based around the line's CAN and CAS services.

The AUE and NUE services provide CCT with twice weekly connections to both Asia and the East Coast of North America while the NUE service also provides weekly connections to California and to North Europe.

The first sailing from Coco Solo will take place on May 2 and Evergreen will be accepting cargo in Asia, North America and Europe for West Coast South American destinations from early April onwards.

Announcing this new addition to the Evergreen service network, Evergreen Marine Corporation's President, Mr Marcel Chang, stated: "This service is especially important as South America is one of the growth regions of the world. We are already well established on the East Coast in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and further north in Venezuela and Colombia. We are delighted now to be able to offer our existing customers a strong and reliable service to and from Ecuador, Peru and Chile."

"We are also looking forward to welcoming new customers in South America. We believe they will appreciate our special brand of service. As one of the world's top three carriers, we provide a state-of-the-art level of operations that few other carriers can match."

15/03/02 UPS awarded as the "World's Most Admired" and "America's Most Admired" company

UPS has once again been rated the "World's Most Admired" company in its industry in a Fortune magazine survey, in the process ranking in the Top 10 among all companies on seven of the nine attributes evaluated.

The recognition by the magazine follows a similar ranking announced last week in which UPS was rated "America's Most Admired" company in its industry for the 19th consecutive year.

On the "World's Most Admired" list, UPS received an overall ranking of 8.10, far ahead of its nearest competitor. The rankings were compiled based on an evaluation of nine criteria, including quality of management; quality of products and services; innovation; long-term investment value; financial soundness; ability to attract, develop and retain talent; responsibility to the community and environment.

Beyond its No. 1 ranking in its industry category of "mail, package and freight delivery," UPS was named among the Top 10 of all companies worldwide on seven of the nine attributes evaluated. UPS was rated among the best in the world as a long-term investment value and for its innovativeness; employee talent; social responsibility; quality of management; financial soundness, and quality of products and services.

In both the "World's Most Admired" and "America's Most Admired" rankings, UPS also posted the highest average score of any transportation or airline company ranked by the magazine.

UPS, which has built one of the world's best known brands, operates in more than 200 countries and territories around the world and has been widely recognized in recent years for its expanding role in enabling global commerce.

UPS is the world's largest transportation company, offering the most extensive range of e-commerce and supply chain solutions for the movement of goods, information and funds.

14/03/02 P&O Nedlloyd revises it's service between Northern Europe and the East Coast South America

P&O Nedlloyd is expected to start an independent weekly service next May between Northern Europe and the East Coast of South America.

Container Line will use seven 1.600 TEU capacity vessels on a fixed day schedule. Ports of call, almost similar to the ones today called by the VSA3 Joint Service, are expected to be Tilbury - Rotterdam - Hamburg - Antwerp - Le Havre - Santos - Paranagua - Buenos Aires - Rio Grande - Itajai - Santos - Salvador proceeding it's northbound leg.

Bilbao, Lisbon and Recife could be called southbound every two weeks; while Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon with the same frequency northbound.

P&O Nedlloyd plan to end in May its present participation as member of the consortium VSA3, a Joint service consisting today of of P&O Nedlloyd, CSAV, Montemar, Contship; and slot charterers Senator and NYK. This service is using today in the trade 6 vessels with a capacity of 2.400 TEU each.

P&O Nedlloyd is today part of the Conference between NWC and East Coast of South América together with following lines: Alianca, CMA CGM, Contship, CSAV, Libra, Hapag Lloyd, Hamburg Sud, Maersk Sealand, Montemar, NYK, SCL and Senator

Reasons for leaving the VSA 3 joint service should be concerns about this service, an schedule integrity not 100 per cent smooth, frequency fluctuations.

P&O Nedlloyd General Agent in Argentina is Agencia Marítima Dodero S.A.

12/03/02 Cooperation between Panalpina and Lufthansa Systems: Implementation of the IT solution AirWarder

Panalpina subsidiary ASB-Air and Lufthansa Systems have signed a contract for the implementation of a new logistics solution. AirWarder is an integrated system designed for logistics providers with large volumes of air cargo as well as for cargo airlines.

        

The subsidiary ASB-Air is Panalpina's inhouse carrier for time-definite and traditional airfreight services. To support and optimize its processes, ASB-Air needs a best-in-class IT solution. This is why it is cooperating with Lufthansa Systems, one of the world's leading suppliers of IT services for the aviation industry. AirWarder consists of Lufthansa Systems' cargo system UltraFreight, featuring a pro-active tracking&tracing module and a booking forecast engine.

Johannes Lang, CEO of Lufthansa Systems Business Solutions, explains the advantages of AirWarder: "The logistics market is highly dynamic. Only innovative products on modern platforms can offer the flexibility required in this market. The product AirWarder is the result of industry expertise and the IT know-how we have systematically generated at Lufthansa Systems. "

Panalpina CIO Monika Ribar adds: "The goal is to provide the user with a modern tool to work more efficiently and effectively. In our opinion, AirWarder is just such a tool. It is a product from a new IT generation and is thus of great importance to the whole Panalpina Group".

Robert Frei, who has overall responsibility for the GF-X platform at Panalpina, adds: "Both AirWarder and GF-X are innovative, trendsetting products that fit perfectly. GF-X will function as an interface between AirWarder and the carriers."

AirWarder will go operational in the third quarter of 2002. In subsequent phases, further functions will be added to support new logistics products.

Panalpina Group

Panalpina, one of the world's leading providers of forwarding and logistics services, specializes in intercontinental airfreight and seafreight consignments and associated supply chain management solutions. Panalpina provides global integrated door-to-door transport solutions, tailored to its clients' individual needs. The Panalpina Group has over 300 branches in 74 countries, and employs around 12,000 people worldwide.

Lufthansa Systems Group

With its 17 subsidiaries, Lufthansa Systems Group is among the leading international information technology companies in the airline and aviation markets. Based on its process know-how in the aviation industry, the group develops and operates flexible and innovative IT solutions that are increasingly being adopted by other industries as well. Lufthansa Systems employs 4,200 staff worldwide.

11/03/02 New Shipping Portal for American Airlines Cargo

American Airlines Cargo unveiled AACargoPlus.com, the airline's newest electronic distribution channel for air freight shippers who need one-stop bundled pick-up and delivery services. This new Web portal is powered by Integres Global Logistics, a virtual integrator, who has the support of several industry-leading transportation companies to provide component transportation services.

Air cargo customers have a number of Internet options at American Airlines to facilitate shipping packages and larger freight shipments. For the past year, AAToday.com has served American's same-day customers with full Internet service. In December, AACargo.com premiered, containing full information about American's shipping products and services available for freight forwarders and the general public.

"AACargoPlus.com fills a niche in our Internet portfolio for those companies who contact us today with end-to-end air freight needs", stated Richard Denhart, manager - marketing communications. "Because customers want to use the Internet to make their transportation processes more efficient, we will continue to enhance our electronic distribution channel offerings to better serve their needs."

AACargoPlus.com provides a range of shipment delivery options using Integres' routing engine and network of service providers on the ground and in the air. Customers can sign up immediately on the site to begin activating their online account. Once established, they will be able to book and track their shipments online from pick up through final delivery.

About American Airlines

American Airlines offers cargo service on virtually every flight it operates, providing more than 14 million pounds of daily lift capacity to major cities in Europe, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Asia and throughout the United States. With the combined flight network of American Airlines, American Eagle and American Connection, American Airlines Cargo provides one of the most comprehensive worldwide cargo networks in the industry.

06/03/02 According to figures released by the Port of Hamburg Marketing Association, Asia has 5 container ports between the top 10 - Port of Hamburg, second in Europe after Rotterdam in top place for port growth in Europe

Hamburg now ranks eighth among world container ports - Cargo handling record despite economic downturn in Germany. In handling cargoes totalling 92.4 million t the Port of Hamburg's growth rate in 2001 was 8.5 percent up on the previous year.

Hamburg was thus among the small group of European ports to achieve substantial growth in 2001. The port succeeded yet again in gaining market share. With growth accelerating by 8.5 percent generally and with container traffic up by 10.4 percent, Hamburg reported the highest growth rates anywhere in Europe. In all cargo-handling categories, i.e., containers, conventional cargoes and bulk cargoes, volume was up on the previous year's. Rotterdam and Antwerp reported lower volumes of cargoes handled. The Bremen ports achieved a slight advance of 2.7 percent. For the first time Hamburg achieved faster growth than its partner city Marseilles.

Containers represent about 54 percent of all cargoes handled. Here Hamburg performed considerably better than its competitors, indeed by a considerable margin. The number of containers handled advanced by 10.4 percent to 4.7 million TEU (20'-equivalent standard containers). The worldwide economic downturn in 2001 caused stagnation in the quantity of containers handled by the world's top ten container ports. Hamburg also strengthened its place as the second largest container port In Europe.

On container traffic all the leading Chinese carriers are customers in Hamburg. Among these are COSCO, China Shipping Container Line and Sinotrans. Hamburg offers the most frequent sailings to China of any port in Northern Europe. As in the previous year, China accounted for the largest slice of container traffic growth of any country in East Asia. Such traffic was 13.5 percent up on the previous year.

Almost 50 percent of all container handling in Hamburg is in the trade with Asia. Many leading liner services and alliances of shipping companies have concentrated their services on Hamburg as mainport for North Europe. In 2001 America's share of Hamburg container traffic rose to 15.2 percent (2000: 13.9 percent). For the first time more containers were handled for North America (387,000 TEU, up by 35.6 percent) than for Latin America (325,000 TEU, up by 7 percent). Outwardcargoes for the Latin American trades stagnated in the second half of the year, the reasons being the economic crisis in Argentina and devaluation of the Brazilian currency.

The fact that Hamburg container terminals succeeded in gaining the loyalty of new liner services attracting high cargo volumes also strengthened Hamburg's position as a hub port an distribution center for feeder services. Several new liner services started up between Hamburg and the Baltic region. Expansion of traffic with Hamburg's partner city of St. Petersburg was another important feature of 2001. Container traffic between Hamburg and the Baltic grewby 18.7 percent and reached 959,000 TEU. Traffic withSt. Petersburg rose by no less than 79.7 percent to 165,000 TEU.    

        

  Container throughtput in TEU of the World's major Ports (Top 20)
  1998       1999       2000      
  HONG KONG 14.582.000 16.210.792 18.098.000
  SINGAPORE 15.136.000 15.944.793 17.090.000
  PUSAN 5.752.955 6.439.589 7.540.387
  KAOHSIUNG 6.271.053 6.985.361 7.425.832
  ROTTERDAM 6.010.502 6.343.020 6.274.000
  SHANGHAI 3.068.421 4.216.000 5.613.000
  LOS ANGELES 3.378.218 3.828.852 4.879.429
  LONG BEACH 4.097.689 4.408.480 4.600.787
  HAMBURG 3.546.940 3.738.307 4.248.247
  ANTWERP 3.265.750 3.614.246 4.082.334
  JAKARTA 1.898.069 2.273.303 3.368.629
  PORT KELANG 1.820.018 2.550.419 3.206.753
  NEW YORK 2.465.993 2.828.878 3.178.310
  DUBAI 2.804.104 2.844.634 3.058.866
  TOKYO 2.494.826 2.695.593 2.898.724
  FELIXSTOWE 2.523.639 2.696.659 2.793.217
  BREMEN / B'HAVEN 1.812.441 2.180.955 2.712.420
  GIOIA TAURO 2.125.640 2.253.401 2.652.701
  SAN JUAN 2.071.385 2.084.711 2.392.749
  YOKOHAMA 2.091.420 2.172.919 2.317.393

 

04/03/02 Global Freight Exchange (GF-X), the neutral internet-based marketplace for airfreight capacity, announced that Air France Cargo is joining the exchange and both Lufthansa Cargo and British Airways World Cargo are strengthening their commitment by naming GF-X their preferred electronic channel.

Air France Cargo is joining GF-X immediately and will make its products available via the Exchange as soon as its technical integration is complete. "Air France Cargo has decided to join GF-X to benefit from the most advanced electronic marketplace in the industry. This will help us to make our differentiated product offering electronically available to the leading international forwarders," said Marc Boudier, Executive Vice President of Air France Cargo.

Lufthansa Cargo, a member of GF-X since 2000, announced that forwarders will be able to book its major product td.Pro as well as allotments via GF-X in the near term. Currently Lufthansa Cargo offers td.Flash on GF-X, but will be rolling out more products in 2002. Dr. Andreas Otto, Member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo, commented, "In the future we will be working even more closely together with GF-X and our forwarders in order to drive the migration to e-business in the air cargo industry."

British Airways World Cargo, also a member of GF-X since 2000, announced that they will continue to implement GF-X as their preferred e-commerce channel. "Our business is global by nature and it therefore makes sense to automate the booking process with a common global platform, rather than with regional solutions," said Gareth Kirkwood, Managing Director of British Airways World Cargo.

Finally, GF-X has achieved another record month during January in terms of booking numbers. The average growth rate month on month since it went live in October 2000 is over 60% with bookings now exceeding 30,000 per month.

01/03/02 Logistics.com Inc., the leader in logistics planning and execution solutions for shippers and carriers, announced an alliance with CargoSmart Limited, the portal for ocean shipping.

The alliance will provide shippers with a new level of control and convenience in procuring rates and managing their global shipments online. The partnership gives shippers a one-stop site where they can procure rates and manage their ocean shipments by combining Logistics.com's powerful OptiBid LaneT procurement solution with CargoSmart's array of powerful online management services including interactive sailing schedules, instant booking confirmation, cargo tracking and tracing, shipment milestone notification and relationship manager.

             

"By incorporating Logistics.com's leading-edge procurement technology into CargoSmart, we are offering our customers a highly strategic addition and creating the industry's most comprehensive ocean shipping platform," said Joseph O'Brien, marketing director of CargoSmart. "Together, Logistics.com and CargoSmart are changing the face of ocean shipping, leveraging the efficiency of the Internet and our dozens of years of industry expertise."

Logistics.com's OptiBid Lane solution improves service and reduces costs by streamlining interaction with carriers, giving the carriers the detailed information they need to bid more confidently and competitively and reducing the time needed to acquire transportation services from weeks to, in some cases, only a few days. CargoSmart's dynamic suite of information and communication tools provides real-time, around the clock shipment visibility, improving responsiveness and efficiency.

About Logistics.com

Based in Burlington, Mass., Logistics.com delivers logistics planning and execution solutions that guarantee cost savings to shippers and carriers, while maximizing service and improving capital utilization. The company links all players in logistics and adjacent industries on a standard communication and application integration platform, Logistics Event Management Architecture (LEMA).

About CargoSmart.com

CargoSmart (www.cargosmart.com), launched on October 11, 2.000 is one of most advanced portals for the container transportation industry. Customers use CargoSmart's open software platform to help manage their shipments with multiple carriers and share information with their shipping associates online. CargoSmart's online management services include Sailing Schedule, Internet Booking Request, Shipment Detail, Cargo Tracking, E-mail Notifications, Shipment Coverage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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