ELITE Association of Logistics Networks of which Conqueror is a member has been featured in the most recent issue of Voice of the Independent, the only global publication devoted entirely to the freight forwarding community.
The magazine’s circulation comprises 23,000 global freight forwarder offices plus 2,500 industry partners including airlines, airports, ports, shipping lines, GSAs, charter brokers and industry associations.
CQR Istanbul will be performing all of Grief’s transport activities in the field of industrial packaging and packaging equipment from Grief’s facilities to England, Scandinavia and Switzerland. In addition, they will provide all customs operations in Sweden, Austria and England.
Grief is just one of CQR Istanbul’s newest clients, they will also begin serving on contract based operations to Carrefour Global Sourcing. The team will undertake Carrefour’s textile and outdoor clothing export products which were bought from Turkish manufacturers. The goods will be transported by road to Sweden, France, İtaly, Poland, Romania and Spain.
Conqueror would like to congratulate CQR Istanbul on these contracts!
We are proud to announce that we have opened our own office at port Rijeka, which is located in the northern Adriatic Sea. The port of Riijeka is the largest port in Croatia handling the largest portion of the country’s imports and exports.
The port of Rijeka is at the southern terminus of the Pan-European transport network corridor, representing a maritime extension of the rail and road routes leading to and from Rijeka. They include modern roads such as the A6 motorway, forming a part of the European route E65 and connecting Zagreb, Budapest and Vienna, and the A7 motorway, a part of the European route E61 and the E65. Rail links comprise single-track railway lines to Zagreb and to Pivka, Slovenia. There are plans to upgrade to a high performance, double-track railway.
We use the natural advantage of port Rijeka to ensure the quality of the services to our customers and partners. Our goals are to provide top-quality port services and develop business between port Rijeka and Central and Central-Eastern European countries.
Our professional staff can handle all type of cargoes (bulk, containers, ro-ro, frigo).
CQR Delhi was recently chosen to provide ‘third country shipments solutions’ by one of its prestigious multinational clients. This contract is on a weekly basis for a number of months moving 10MT Solar Cell / Solar Wafers by air from China to the USA.
“We decided to call on CQR Qingdao for assistance with these shipments and as a result together we have already moved over 100MT and this is going to continue for the next few months. Together with S.F. Systems (Qingdao) Ltd, we have been able to provide a solution that only the multinationals could have offered,”explained Three Aces Global Director, Pankaj Agarwal.
Well done to CQR Delhi on initiating such a great partnership!
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Members can be more confident than ever with regard to CQR Lagos!
Supply Chain Strategy is an essential element for operational efficiency that plays a vital role in an organizations success. The importance of knowledgeable professionals skilled in SCM is critical to business operations.
The 3rd Annual Supply Chain Middle East Strategy Summit to be held on 11-12 February 2014 in Dubai will bring together supply chain experts and professionals to analyze on global trends.
The summit will expand on the opportunities and scope of growth within the Middle East and latest strategies of key functions. The 2 day conference will have panel discussions on the importance of sustainability and custom clearance within the GCC.
The conference over the past two years has proved itself to be a premier gathering of supply chain practitioners with more than 20 eminent speakers and over 150 high level delegates from gulf countries and worldwide.
Contact details:
Alphy Nangani – T: +971 4609 1570 – E: alphy.nangani@fleminggulf.com
To find out about discounts available for Conqueror members.
Please contact Anna Barton on abarton@conquerornetwork.com
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Evaristo brings over a decade’s worth of experience in increasingly responsible roles within the Logistics and Freight Forwarding Industry to his new role.
Evaristo will work closely with Conqueror members assisting them with any pricing queries. He will be working alongside Romina Guevara, Customer Service Director who, if you attended our meeting in Bangkok, you will have met and Operations Supervisor, Sandra Gamez.
Of working at Itrans, Evaristo had this to say,“It is a pleasure to be part of the team and I look forward to increasing the partnerships between Itrans and Conqueror members in the near future.”
On behalf of the CQR Head Office team and the network, we welcome Evaristo and wish him all the best with his career!
Over the past few months, Conqueror’s exclusive agent in Athens, has been making a number of road transportations of steel cargo to be used in construction at Bad Bentheim in the north of Germany; 36 in fact.
The dimensions were 14.00m X 3.50m X 4.00m with an average weight of 21.5 tons each. “To date our team has moved a total of 650 tons of steel over land on low bed – heavy duty trailers,” explained Vlasis Maragos, Operations Manager.
C.V.M.’s motto is ‘We can visualize your movements,’ meaning that have the ability to provide a smooth and stress-free door to door service for its clients and partners. These steel loadings in particular needed careful forethought, planning and coordination to ensure the correct transport permits for Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, and Germany as well as escort cars.
As the well-known phrase says, “’Prior planning prevents poor performance’, and this is what every member of our team understands and works by,” emphasized Vlasis.
The Modern Cargo team was chosen by global gold exporter Udaji International to move two Volvo Gold Excavators from the port of Mumbai to Tema in Ghana for use in the countries mines.
As I’m sure you can imagine, anything which is used for digging for gold is not going to be small! Each machine weighed 30 MT with dimensions of 34.44 by 10.46 by 11.25 feet (L W H).
This first shipment of two excavators was a trial run for the team so it really was all hands on deck to ensure success in securing the shipping of a further 16 such machines from Mumbai and 3 from Chennai.
After much planning and consultation, the shipping got underway and CQR Mumbai arranged transportation from the shipper’s door to the port of Mumbai on flat-bed trailers and then driven onto the Ro-Ro vessel.
With this Modern Cargo Services has further consolidated its position in the market as reliable service provider not only for general cargo shipments but also for the movement of specialized cargo.
Paperwork is probably the least favourite yet the most important part of shipping dangerous/hazardous goods and as a result, many forwarders shy away from them. This week, we are featuring two of our members who regularly make such shipments and whose teams thrive on the need for accuracy and time management.
One of those companies is CQR Kandla. Every week, they ship 10-15 containers of chemicals on behalf of M/s. Industrial Solvent Pvt Ltd from Mundra to cities in every corner of the world.
During the week we spoke with them, the team were handling various chemicals including Menthol, Toluene, Acetone, Hexane, Glycol and Ether EB packed in drums and liquid form. These were packed into a 20′ GP /40′ DC / 40′ Reefer / 20′ ISO tank and carried by CMA, MSC Evergreen, Zim and OSL. The Kandla team were responsible for all packing and stuffing.
When asked what one of the main challenges was of handling these shipments, Branch Manager, Ms Sheeja, had this to say, “The biggest challenge is dealing with shipping lines for DG approvals and of course the documentation process and the labelling of the chemicals. Thankfully, with these shipments being a weekly event, our team have become experts at this!”
Our second member to frequently ship non-hazardous chemicals is CQR Denmark. They ship additives to oil and gas producing countries around the Black and Caspian Seas. Their most recent shipment travelled from Rotterdam to Klaipeda by sea and then onward by truck with container chassis to Novorossiysk.
4 X 20′ ISO tank containers / capacity 24,000L / weight net 18-18.5 ton
As if the completion of all the import and export documentation wasn’t challenging enough to the time management of this shipment, Russia has introduced a new customs guarantee, whereby the TIR convention between itself and Belarus was cancelled. Nevertheless, this did not hamper the team as the shipment arrived intact and on time. They retain their status as ‘experts’ in this field.