New logistics club to tackle supply chain risks


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The Logistics Institute at Hull University Business School is launching a club to help companies improve the security and resilience of their supply chains in London on 1 May. The Supply Chain Risk and


Resilience Club aims to help companies meet the challenges of managing and securing their sourcing and distribution processes.


advice, the latest research findings and workshops where leading academics and industry experts from major


global companies - including


Unipart Logistics, PwC and Estee Lauder - will share their experiences of and best practice for managing risk. The launch event will conclude


It will provide


with a round-table discussion to create a future agenda for enhancing the security of this critical area of commerce. Institute director Dr Omera Khan, explained: “Supply chain risk concerns all commercial organisations,” particularly where they cross national boundaries. Economic turbulence, natural


Good for another 180 years


Hull-based John Good Group has achieved a major milestone even by the standards of an industry of long histories – it has been in business for 180 years. It all started with a small ship


chandler’s store on Salthouse Lane in Hull, opened by John Good in 1833 when he returned to England following a stint on sailing ships trading in the Baltic, Mediterranean and the White Sea. Using the experience he had gained during his time at sea, he set up John Good & Co as ship chandlers, agents and brokers. Today,


the Group employs


over 250 people and operates from 14 different sites in the UK including all main ports with activities encompassing one of the UK’s


largest


agency, freight forwarding, haulage and warehousing services. The company’s headquarters


is still in Hull, but now there are subsidiaries such as Felixstowe Warehousing, DAN Shipping & Chartering and warehousing and distribution specialists Trans- European Port Services. Group MD Alan Platt said:


“Rather than succumb to external pressures and market forces, we’re really proud to have tackled the challenges head- on and have become a much stronger and robust organisation as a result.” Over the last 12 years The


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ship agency businesses, John Good Shipping, together with its own overseas offices in Turkey. It provides liner agency, port


John Good Group has worked hard to deliver an ambitious plan to become a £20 million gross profit business by 2020 – against the backdrop of an uncertain economy and the tragic and untimely death of joint managing director, Matthew Good, in 2011.


disasters and political instability have dramatically changed the risk profile of most supply chain. Businesses must be prepared for severe disruption to their sourcing and distribution arrangements, and the new risk and resilience club will give companies with the tools they need to enhance security. To reserve a place at the launch


of the Supply Chain Risk and Resilience Club, which takes place at at the Institute of Directors on 1 May from 09.45 to 4pm, contact Sam Davy on 01482 347524 or


Dr Omera Khan


s.davy@hull.ac.uk . Booking fee is £75 plus VAT.


Deserting customers scuppered North Sea Ro Ro


Defecting customers forced the withdrawal of the North Sea Ro Ro service, said managing director Dan Ericsson. The service, which operated three days a week between Killingholm and Gothenburg stopped operations on the weekend of 9-10 March. “The reason for ending the


service was quite simple – our biggest customers decided to move part of their volume to DFDS and, despite having had record carryings in January and February, we couldn’t see any alternative,” Ericsson told FBJ in an interview. He added though that the


company was not being wound up and would pursue “other options in the same industry”. However, it was unlikely that the Gothenburg service would ever be revived. “The market just isn’t willing to support us, it seems,” Ericsson said. “But I really believed in the service


and it achieved 100% reliability.” The vessel used on the service


has since been relet and is now being operated by DFDS. One former North Sea Ro Ro


customer, Bjorn Eklund, CEO of Scandinavian forwarder Green Carrier said: “We supported North Sea Ro Ro to some extent, and we were really surprised when the service stopped operating.” He said the abrupt cessation of the service had caused some minor inconvenience, “though fortunately not too much.” North Sea Ro Ro’s entry into


the market had reduced rates on the rival DFDS service “by quite a few percent,” however, he said. He also questioned whether


North Sea Ro Ro had fully understood the size of the challenge they faced in taking on such a large incumbent operator as DFDS.


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Clecat, the European forwarders’ group, has suggested that the


rules for cabotage be simplified as a prelude to the complete opening up of the haulage market in the EU. It suggests that the conditions for establishment of a haulage operation be streamlined; at the same time the definition of cabotage should be clarified, along with raising the number of cabotage operations to be carried out within seven days. In addition, Clecat is calling on the European Commission to allow cabotage operations as soon as the vehicle has entered the host country, rather than only allowing it following the completion of an international journey. This, it says, would result in better capacity utilisation.


Road freight carbon-cutting programme Green Freight Europe


welcomed its 100th member on 27 March, coinciding with its one-year anniversary of its launch in 2012. Originally, 30 organisations took part, to realise a European-wide standard for calculating, monitoring and improving the environmental performance of road transportation. Founder members included Heineken, Deutsche Post DHL and Schneider Electric. Krummen, a Swiss company specialising in food logistics and animal transport, was the 100th member.


Cardiff-based Freight Systems Express Wales says it has had


another record breaking year, transporting more containers by rail than ever before. Working in partnership with Freightliner’s Logico division, FSEW moved almost 7,500 containers during 2012 by rail between Southampton Docks and Freightliner’s Cardiff terminal - almost double the number in 2011.


CEVA Logistics has launched a new China to Europe rail service


following a successful trial. Total transit time from Suzhou in China, via Russia to the Netherlands is about 28 days. The service is cheaper than airfreight and 13-15 days quicker than sea, says Ceva, and it also offers the flexibility of daily departures from Suzhou. For the trial service, the shipment was loaded during China’s spring festival travel season, the peak period for rail transport and temperatures were as low as -38 degrees centigrade.


The Port of Felixstowe has taken delivery of three new gantry


cranes for its new North rail terminal which will double its train capacity. The three rail-mounted gantry-cranes, made by Liebherr in Ireland, will span the new nine-track terminal at the port, making them the biggest intermodal rail terminal cranes in the UK.


Former transport minister turned peer Lord Freeman pledged


to help put freight onto the high speed rail line that is planned to link London and the north. At a Rail Freight Group House of Commons reception to mark 20 years of railway privatisation, Lord Freeman, who served as a transport minister during the rail privatisation era in the early 1990s, told guests that he would “ask the Department for Transport to look at taking rail freight on the High Speed 2” line in the small hours of the morning as part of a wider rail freight strategy that he was urging the DfT to adopt.


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