FEATURE FREIGHT FORWARDER FOCUS ASIA
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“strengthening intra‐Asia capabilities”
weak”, causing a move away from expensive air freight shipping to the cheaper ocean freight mode, Toll achieved what it describes as a “solid result in challenging conditions” over the last six months of 2011. Shipco Airfreight, a division of neutral
The government plans to build or upgrade 45 airports in the inland areas Such as Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxi, Qinghai, Gangsu, Shaanxi and Tibet
NVOCC (non vessel operating common carrier) Shipco Transport, operates from eight air freight offices in Asia as well as 11 gateways in the US. “In China, we see ourselves as a space
broker,” said Christos Spyrou, director of air freight development, China. “We are not limited to one or two airlines as a traditional master loader is, but have much more flexibility – and then we offer scheduled consolidations to more than 30 destinations.”
European interests Supply chain management leader SDV Logistics may be based in France, but it has a regional headquarters in Singapore and is frequently involved in the movement of freight to and from the Far East. It has warned of the air cargo sector linking Asia and Europe being heavily weakened by overcapacity. Moreover, an SDV spokesman remarks
that the trend looks set to last. Georges Van Hove, manager of air freight corporate procurement at SDV parent company Bolloré Logistics, says that the demand for freighter aircraft remains strong, despite the downturn in the air cargo industry. However, one cause for optimism for
the region, according to SDV, may be the investments that are being made in
China’s air cargo infrastructure. The government plans to build or upgrade 45 airports in the inland areas such as Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Gangsu, Shaanxi and Tibet, the SDV spokesman pointed out. Traffic is expected to increase at a rate of more than 20 percent a year to these areas. Weiss Röhlig, the logistics services
provider owned by Austria’s Gebrüder Weiss Group and Germany’s Röhlig, has also looked to the Far East for growth and has seen inorganic expansion as a way of quickly achieving its aim. It recently took over Osaka-based JHB Express, an air and sea freight forwarder. According to Joe Lässer, director air
and sea for Gebrüder Weiss: “The acquisition will strengthen our presence in the Japan market, complementing our existing operations in Tokyo. In addition, we will be able to strengthen our intra-Asia capabilities, which will be a significant benefit for our major trading partners in the US.” Other Europe-based transportation
specialists are expanding their footprint in China through a process of acquisition. For example, the acquisition of TDG and APC Beijing International by European forwarder Norbert Dentressangle is said to have played a big role in the expansion of the company and its increased sales results. APC Beijing operates a network of 16 offices covering all of China’s key coastal and inland regions. A company statement said the transaction “strengthens Norbert Dentressangle's network in China, a major hub for
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