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Intra-Asia is now a significant market for air and ocean logistics specialist Logwin, driven not just by China and India but also by other nations such as Vietnam and Singapore with their young and increasingly affluent populations. The company has a comprehensive established regional network and says it is well positioned to increase its business as intra-Asian trade expands in 2011.


lane (and vice versa) are also very important for a company with roots in Europe. “We are seeing positive signs that there will be sustained growth on both air and ocean in 2011,” says managing director of the Far East Asia region, Tomas Sonntag.


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In Asia, Logwin has built freight forwarding and warehousing capacities in China, India and elsewhere. Its European brand name customers are focused on


Asia as a manufacturing centre and also as a market for luxury fashion garments.


Logwin has a strong focus on the fashion and lifestyle sector and a significant airfreight


business.


“Aside from seasonal adjustments due to Chinese New Year we are optimistic that our airfreight business will grow,” says Sonntag. “Our forecasts for ocean freight on the trade lane Asia/Europe are also looking positive for 2011.” The company develops specialised logistics solutions for each client and works with some of the world’s leading retailers. It adds that consumer demand is growing in China for high-end fashion goods from Europe. China is still the dominant factor - its GDP recently surpassed Japan’s to make it the world’s second largest economy after the US. However, says Sonntag, “we also see India on the rise and we have a national network covering all major cities across the country. Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia all have significant growth in the export manufacturing sector and also growing consumer demand.” Logwin is expanding its presence in Asia as customer demand grows in China and in South East Asia. Since setting up in Hong Kong in 1972 it has built its presence in China throughout the 1990s and currently has 19 offices in China but it is planning ten more in South China by 2013. The company appointed Jimmy


ISSUE 2 2011 Logwin spreads its wings across the East


Chow in 2010 as country director for Southern China and Hong Kong a move that reflects its strategy for this region.


“Customers now want international door-to-door freight forwarding services, origin freight management, value added logistics services, warehousing and a global network – all from one service provider,” says Sonntag. Logwin’s expansion will be in Fujian to the east and Kunming in the west. This will include focusing on opportunities in the economic zone of Pan Pearl River Delta to capture some of the growing trade between the ASEAN countries, India and China in addition to the current European, Americas and Africa business.


Logwin is also expanding facilities in Vietnam to meet growing demand from garment and shoe manufacturers. Import and export volumes are forecast to grow by 20 per cent in 2011. During the last decade container volumes have also surged by between 20 per cent and 25 per cent


Logwin extended its warehouse and consolidation centre in Hanoi from 1,000 to 2,000sqm and has more than doubled capacity at its container-freight station (CFS) in Haiphong to 2,000sq m.


In Ho Chi Minh City Logwin will move into a new enlarged warehouse CFS which has a state- of-the-art racking system and doubles storage capacity to 1,000 pallet positions.


Dachser looks for expansion


China is the major focus for forwarder Dachser’s


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expansion. Edoardo Podesta, the forwarder’s managing director for Greater China, says: “We are already present in Asia in several key countries and we plan to strengthen further our presence in future. China is definitely still the dominant force in our air and sea logistics business field in the Asian region.”


The company plans to open


new offices in expanding business areas particularly in the Northern coastal part of China as well as in the South-west along the Yangtze River and is also looking with interest at the Western part of China where it opened up an office in Chengdu in 2005. In addition to freight forwarding, Dachser increasingly offers contract logistics services including state-of-the-art warehousing and customer- specific value added-services. It anticipates new business in various vertical industries where it has expertise in areas such as


consumer electronics, renewable energies and automotive. Edoardo Podesta adds: “For quite some time we have been a market leader in the German and European trade lanes. However, our business has meanwhile grown and today we look more and more at Intra-Asia and at both the US and Latin America as our core business. We have just announced that we are entering into the South African market and this will be a new challenge for us.” Dachser has for the last few months seen more growth in sea freight business than in airfreight due to some adjustment in its customers’


supply chains, says


Podesta. “However, overall, with steamship lines still going ‘slow’ we believe that airfreight in China will play a bigger role in future however this will very much depend by the overall economic situation. We also see a rebalancing between import and export with import business showing the most growth for more than a year.”


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