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SDV moves into supply chain management


The core business of French Bolloré group’s forwarding subsidiary SDV has historically been intercontinental air and ocean freight. However, by monitoring and responding to its customers’ changing needs, it has broadened the scope of its expertise and is now a


global leader in supply chain management. SDV offers a full range of services and industry expertise, with solutions matching the complete logistics needs of importers


and production: exporters,


upstream and downstream of


organising


transport, Customs and regulatory compliance, logistics, industrial


projects and supply chain services.


Through a combination of internal growth, acquisitions and strategic alliances, SDV has developed a powerful network spread across 90 countries, with


520 offices and 28,000 dedicated employees.


SDV continues to expand its operations in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and South Asia and Asia-Pacific, while maintaining its position as the leader on the African continent.


Forwarding and logistics in Leicester


Leicester-based specialist the Widdowson Group will be showcasing its logistics services at Multimodal. It operates four main divisions; UK transport, logistics warehousing, contract packing and freight forwarding. The transport department provides both full and


groupage loads using a large fleet of over 120 vehicles and 200 trailers while the freight forwarding division provides a diverse range of international services. It also has over 550,000 sq ft of modern warehousing offering dedicated or shared user storage.


Dachser and Leach: 12 months on


Nearly twelve months after the completion of the sale of JA Leach Transport, Dachser has fully integrated the Rochdale- based operation into its Europe- wide network.


All Rochdale-based have staff transferred to Dachser and have since received extensive coaching and training from the staff base at the UK headquarters in Northampton, with additional technical


support from the


corporate HQ in Germany. The warehouse and offices have also been fully refurbished and supplied with new IT equipment. The Rochdale depot now


serves as Dachser’s North of England hub. State-of-the-art shipment control and tracking systems are available, as well as EDI connections.


European export services are now operated from the Rochdale facility and enjoyed by a wider customer base throughout northern England, but the traditional Leach customer base has been retained.


UK managing director, Nick Lowe, comments: “Having professionally trained and motivated staff is a decisive factor for success in modern-day logistics.”


Europe’s biggest feeder operator


Unifeeder operates the largest feedering network in Northern Europe with more than 1.7m teu a year and a growing pan- European shortsea door to door business. At the end of 2010, the company operated a fleet of 33 chartered container vessels with a capacity ranging from 750 to1,600 TEU. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, the operator was acquired by Montagu Private Equity, a leading investor in the European mid-market, in 2007. In January 2010 Unifeeder acquired the Polish feeder


operator IMCL having opened an office in St Petersburg, Russia. The fleet is tailor-made for feeder transport in northern waters and includes vessels with high ice classes and any type of container cargo can be accommodated including reefers, tank containers, out of gauge units and all classifications of IMDG goods.


Also in 2010 Unifeeder launched


a three-loop fixed


weekly schedule connecting the UK ports of Felixstowe, Immingham, Teesport, South Shields, and Grangemouth


with Hamburg and Rotterdam followed, in March this year by a fourth loop offering a direct


connection between the UK ports and Gdynia and Gdansk in Poland.


It’s not often that the worlds of art and freight intertwine but Redhead International has managed it at this year’s Multimodal.


The UK-based


logistics and freight specialist will be exhibiting a gallery of artwork from its campaign, ‘The Art of Smartfreight’.


The artwork evolved out of Redhead’s desire to create a campaign that articulated their recognition of the individual


Fargo Systems will be launching the latest version of their TOPS transport management system at


Multimodal. It incorporates


a number of enhancements to improve efficiency, maximise profits, and assist in carbon emissions reduction.


The ‘Multimodal Profit Optimiser’ suite of tools includes a planning wizard to identify container ‘twinning’ and ‘reload’ possibilities, a route optimiser for multi-drop trips, a quick and simple alternative transport determinant, and a profitability optimiser that compares standard default tariffs, subcontractor-specific ones, own fleet running costs and any ad- hoc quotes that may have been received.


The user-friendly wizard helps reduce empty running miles for container road transport allows the operator to optimise routing based on customer requirements, equipment type, location and so on and offers best matches all within the transport management system itself.


Quotation requirements can be requested, and subsequently submitted by


ISSUE 2 2010 Fargo is TOPS


transport suppliers via the independent


containercentral.


com online transaction exchange. If accepted, jobs can be electronically transferred


directly to the


supplier’s transport management system, with a return flow of job status and information update, including


electronic delivery all possible.


It is also possible to auto- determine jobs best suited for rail and other alternative means of transport, with different rules available for imports and exports. In addition, a train


planning


module provides a sophisticated way of managing contracted or self-operated


rail services with


equipment checks and a wagon space optimiser.


entered


CO²/Kg emissions can also be for


different transport


modes and reported back to the Customer on a regular basis. “It’s the best multi-modal product offering we are aware of on the market” states Kevin Terrill, product development director at Fargo Systems, “and it is appropriate to be showcasing these features at the Multimodal event.”


The art of freight


nature of customer needs, and their ability to tailor solutions to match – and there’s nothing more unique than an individual’s perception of art, Redhead tells us. The Art of Smartfreight campaign saw the reworking of some of art’s most iconic images to express a facet of the Redhead ethos and operation. Moreover, says Redhead’s marketing manager,


Austin solutions Duffy: “We


are happy to create customer specific


and the


campaign expresses this approach completely.”


Redhead International, established in 1978, has depots in Bradford, Burton-on-Trent, Basildon, Bathgate, Belfast, Dublin and Paris. Employing over 180 staff internationally, it has regular scheduled services to over 40 countries every week in Western, Eastern and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, North Africa, the Middle East and the CIS countries.


Eight for AFSS The Association of Freight


Software Supplies has eight members exhibiting at Multimodal this year - Agency Sector Management, ATMS, Azyra Systems, BoxTop Technologies, CargoWise, Impatex Computer Systems, Imtech Logistics Software and Kewill.


Formed in 1993, the Association


represents most leading suppliers of software to the freight and transportation industry. All members of AFSS - 24 companies in all - follow a published code of conduct and are kept fully up-dated with procedures and developments by virtue of AFSS attendance at all HMRC working groups.


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