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NEWS UK firm becomes force in Romania


14 years and, since 2005, have been shareholders in Delamode and


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UK-based Keswick Enterprises has set up a new company in Romania, Tibbett Logistics. It follows its acquisition last December of Delamode’s Romanian arm, Delamode Logistics SRL together with that company’s joint venture with DHL, DHL Delamode. The


Romanian businesses have been renamed Tibbett Logistics SRL and Tibbett Retail Services SRL respectively – and together will trade as Tibbett Logistics. Other Delamode operations, including the UK, will continue to run independently.


Keswick Enterprises was created in 2004 by John Harvey – who previously developed and led the major intercontinental logistics service provider Tibbett & Britten Group for 20 years. Keswick’s management have been involved in Romania for over


venture. Prior to this several of Keswick’s senior managers, when part of Tibbett & Britten before its sale to Exel Logistics (where it was eventually acquired by DHL) led the original Delamode entry into contract logistics in Romania and established a joint venture on behalf of Metro Group. Tibbett Logistics operates from nine distribution centres across Romania with over 100,000 square metres of warehousing in Bucharest, Constanta, Deva and Timisoara. It offers nationwide supply chain services for customers including domestic and multinational retailers, FMCG, automotive and other manufacturers. It


also has a nationwide


domestic transport network, and is the only private rail container terminal operator in Bucharest. This summer it will open a second intermodal terminal in the west of the city.


Sweden’s Greencarrier buys PTS Peter Nevhagen


UK logistics companies continue to be tempting targets


for


foreign companies. Following the announcement of Kuehne and Nagel’s takeover of Nottingham- based RH Freight, now Swedish- headquartered logistics specialist Greencarrier has bought Ipswich- based UK/Scandinavia specialist PTS – a company which has been its partner for five years. PTS UK, which is to be renamed Greencarrier PTS Ltd in due course, has its headquarters within the Ipswich Dock area and an office in Immingham. All PTS’s management will be retained. The company operates 17 trucks from 3.5 to 44 tonnes, along with over 100 trailers including curtainersiders and container flats. It operates regular groupage, part and


full-load services to Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, and has facilities for sorting, order picking, re-marking, shrink wrapping and labelling. PTS managing director Robert Gaunt said: “Greencarrier will provide us with access to greater management resources and expertise, and of course a much bigger


market, notably


in the Nordic countries and the Baltic states. The UK, with its population of over 60 million, has a substantial trade with these countries and we expect our share of it to grow rapidly over the next few years.”


Greencarrier CEO Peter Nevhagen said the acquisition would increase his company’s


workforce by almost 14%. In an interview with FBJ, he added that he expected to see “much more merger and acquisition activity in the freight market this year.” Activity had been somewhat depressed over the past 18 months but now the trend towards globalisation and larger companies buying up smaller niche operations would continue, he predicted. Meanwhile, PTS would be “a good fit with Greencarrier” said Nevhagen. “The UK is a good market and is an important trading partner with the Nordic countries and the Baltic.”


Greencarrier would gradually expand service from the UK to both areas, he continued. PTS’s


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Sweden and Norway but new services to Finland, Denmark and the Baltic region would be introduced. Nevagen did not rule out adding air and ocean forwarding services in the UK at some stage, “but we are not rushing into this”.


Expansion of the office network and fleet in the UK would also follow and the fact that PTS operated its own traction in the UK was a competitive advantage.


ISSUE 3 2011 ROUND-UP: SEAFREIGHT CONTINUED


The International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Safety Committee is to address the issue of incorrectly declared containerized cargo shipments and carry out other measures to improve the safety of container stowage and ship operations. The move came in response to a proposal by the Netherlands, Denmark and Australia to tackle the issue. Last December, the World Shipping Council and the International Chamber of Shipping also urged the IMO to make it an international legal requirement for all loaded containers to be weighed in port before export.


Rickmers’ project cargo liner arm has upgraded its Europe/India service with four new vessels with lift capacities of up to 300 tonnes. There will be a direct service eastbound and westbound between Europe and India although Pakistan and Middle East ports will also be available by inducement. The base ports served are Hamburg, Antwerp, Genoa, Mumbai and Chennai.


WEC Lines has added a new weekly container service in both directions between Felixstowe and the Northern Spanish ports of Bilbao and Gijon. Inland transport in Spain can also be arranged and 20’, 40’ and high cube containers can be carried with special equipment including pallet-wides on request. Sailings depart Felixstowe on Thursday. WEC Lines operate other services to Portugal, Spain and Morocco, East Africa and Havana, Cuba. UK agents are JSA, the new subsidiary set up after Johnson Stevens Agencies went into administration.


Safmarine has relaunched its seasonal SAECS Reefer Express (REX) service to provide extra capacity during the South African peak fruit season. South Africa-Europe trade manager, Ian Fairlie, said it would call at Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Tilbury and Rotterdam with Lisbon subject to inducement on the northbound leg. Capacity has also been increased compared to 2009 and 2010 with increased plug capacity on the six vessels deployed and the service will also be available for dry cargo. Ian Fairlie added that the current plan was to run to the end of August, subject to demand, but it could extend to mid September.


CMA CGM’s EPIC service now calls at Piraeus on its way from North Europe to the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East. It provides a direct service from Southampton and north Europe to the Greek port.


Dubai-based ports group DP World will start trading on the London Stock Exchange as well as Dubai from June 1. It wants to attract a broader range of investors after low trading volumes in its home market.


ROUND-UP: ROAD AND RAIL


The International Road Transport Union and the UN Mine Action Service have set up a public-private partnership to de-mine roads in Afghanistan. It will remove landmines and other explosives on roads between Kabul and its Central Asian neighbours and contribute to the reconstruction and stabilisation of Afghanistan by enhancing domestic and international trade links.


Rail operator DB Schenker said a container train from Chongqing in China arrived in Duisburg on 4 April after a journey of just 16 days for the 10,300km - about half the time it would have taken by ship.In mid-May, the port of Antwerp said it had plans for a similar rail link to Chongqing.


Following the clearance of the rail route to Southampton to 9’6” high containers on standard flat wagons, DB Schenker has won its largest ever container contract from CMA CGM to deliver over 25,000 containers per year.


Freightliner has signed a new multi-million pound contract with Maersk Line, for committed space from Felixstowe to 15 destinations. It is expected to provide for the movement of up to 190,000 containers a year.


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