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Company Profile:
Pro Logistics
India enters into JV agreement with Rhenus
Pro-Logistics India provides services in the fields of logistics; freight
delivery; customs brokerage; cargo insurance; third party logistics;
industrial project management; government contracts; and warehousing /
distribution. The company, which is under Western Arya Group, has entered
into a joint venture with 2.7 billion Germany based logistics company,
Rhenus (part of the 7.1 billion multinational company, Rethmann AG & Co.).
Western Arya Group Company was founded in 1947, and it is now a 3rd
generation entrepreneurs.
Pro-Logistics primarily operates in south and south-east Asia and has its
own offices in Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and India. The
company has been a partner for Rhenus Freight Logistics, particularly in the
air and ocean divisions, in the past. Pro-Logistics has been handling significant
transportation volumes between Europe and south/south-east Asia for some
years.
Rhenus AG & Co. KG signed the agreement to acquire shareholding with the
Pro-Log Group. The joint venture company will be called Rhenus ProLog
Logistics Limited (RPLL). With this, Pro Log is poised to enhance presence
across Europe as well. On the other hand, this joint venture will enable
Rhenus to strengthen its presence in Asia to a significant degree and will
also help develop the market in this region for the Rhenus brand.
According to the Pro Log sources, By taking a holding in the Pro-Log Group,
the regional turnover for Rhenus will rise by approximately US $ 50 million.
Following this acquisition, Rhenus will have its own offices for business
operations at 32 locations in Asia.
Commenting on the JV agreement Vivek Arya, managing director, Pro Logistics
said, “Our aim is to be a leading competitive logistics company; setting the
industry standards for service, efficiency, and, productivity. With this
joint venture, we are able to expand our presence in European sub-continent
and we will be able to achieve the goals set out through our commitment and
compliance of our Quality Management Systems.”
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Highlights of Pro Log Services
Air
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IATA Accredited Agent in
India
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Scheduled outbound
services
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Split-charter and
full-charter flights
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Scheduled inbound
consolidation
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Scheduled outbound
groupage
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Break bulk licence holder
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Imports and Exports
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Door delivery and pick up
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Customs brokerage and
clearance
Ocean
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MTO (Multimodal transport
operators) Licence
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Customs brokerage and
clearance
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Door pick up and delivery
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Excellent Liner contacts
Rail Freight
Intermodal
Rail-road combination
Specialised transportation
Special /over sized cargo
Trucking
FTL / LTL
deliveries
Comprehensive delivery network
Vehicle tracking facility
Own fleet of Trucks
Specialised equipment
Heavy goods transportation
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DACAAI to
organise its second convention in Delhi on February 15-16
The managing committee of the Domestic Cargo Agents Association of India (DACAAI)
has decided to organise their second Convention at Tivoli Garden in Delhi.
The association’s first convention was organised in December 2009 in Mumbai.
Speaking to Cargo Talk, Arvind Nayak, president, DACAAI informed that the
other details and theme of the convention would be announced very soon. A
new managing committee is also expected to be elected during the convention.
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Jet Airways starts
Delhi-Milan direct daily service from December 5
With aircraft A330 Jet Airways will offer direct daily service between Delhi
and Milan, effective December 5 this year. According to Jet Airways sources,
the airline will offer 10 to 12 tonne cargo space in a flight. Meanwhile,
the airline is getting good responses from across the country. Currently,
there is no direct air service between India and Italy. Jet Airways will
offer enhanced connectivity across Europe over the Italian city, which will
serve as an additional gateway to Europe from India. The onward connectivity
includes Rome, Paris, London, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Budapest, Prague,
Stuttgart, Warsaw, Zurich and some other destinations.
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India and China to sign agreement to develop road transport and highways
India and China have agreed to work towards signing of a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) in the areas of road transport and highways. Under the
MoU, both sides would seek to enhance cooperation in highway construction,
exchange of technology and investments in the sector. This was recently
agreed during a meeting between Kamal Nath, minister for road transport and
highways, government of India and Li Shenglin, minister of transport, China
at Beijing. Nath stated that India had embarked on a massive National
Highway development programme under which it was proposed to construct 7000
km of National Highways every year over the next few years.
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Cabinet
Committee on Infrastructure approves development of ‘Mega Container Terminal'
at Chennai Port
The Cabinet
Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) has approved the project development of
Mega Container Terminal at Chennai Port on Design, Build, Finance, Operate
and Transfer (DBFOT) basis under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode with
a concession period of 30 years. The project cost is estimated to be
Rs.36860 million. Considering the steady growth in the container volumes at
Chennai Port, the container throughput demand is expected to outstrip the
available capacity of 2.0 million Twenty-feet Equivalent Unit (TEUs) per
annum by 2017-18. The capacity of the proposed Mega Container Terminal would
be 4 Million TEUs per annum.
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Exports from Hassan SEZ in Karnataka crosses Rs 3500 million in
2010
Hassan Special Economic Zone (SEZ),
which has been developed by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board
(KIADB), has achieved an export of Rs.3500 million during 2010. The
corresponding exports during 2008 and 2009 were Rs.2287 million and Rs.3292
million respectively. The Hassan SEZ comprises multi-product export units in
textiles, food processing and pharma sector with a total area of approx. 460
hectares. The approximate investment planned by KIADB to develop these units
was more than Rs.1000 million.
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APM Terminals Pipavav in Gujarat adds YML and OOCL’s
China-Pakistan Express service
Recently, Orient Overseas Container
Line (OOCL) and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation (YML) upgraded the
joint China-Pakistan Express (CPX) service by adding Port Pipavav, Gujarat
as their port of call. After Nhava Sheva in Mumbai, Port Pipavav is the only
other port of call for the CPX service in India. Port of Pipavav already
has more than 20 lines calling on it and the port is looking forward to
increase this further this year. The new port rotation is as follows:
Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Singapore, Karachi, Pipavav, Nhava Sheva, Penang,
Port Kelang, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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Allcargo Global Logistics acquires Hong Kong based companies to
strengthen NVOCC operations
Allcargo Global Logistics, a Mumbai
based logistics service provider involved in Multimodal Transport Operations
(MTO), owning and operating Containers Freight Station (CFS) and handling of
project cargo, recently announced an acquisition and controlling stake in
Hong Kong based companies engaged in NVOCC business. The acquisition is
valued at approx USD 22 million and it would expedite the expansion plan of
the company of its Non Vessel Owning Common Carrier (NVOCC) business through
its own subsidiary. Allcargo Global has acquired two vessels with a dead
weight of approximately 6,500 tons through its wholly owned subsidiary
company.
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DHL strengthens direct LCL services from the USA to Asian hub
DHL recently announced the launch of
a new direct less-than-container load (LCL) services from Seattle to
Singapore serving as a gateway to 16 destinations in South Asia. The new
direct weekly LCL service will cover freight moving from Portland and
Seattle and can reduce the overall transit time between the U.S. and
Singapore by 12 to14 days compared to current service transit times. Danmar
Lines, DHL Global Forwarding’s in-house carrier, operates the new weekly LCL
service. According to DHL sources, with cargo shipped directly from Seattle
to Singapore, customers can expect their shipments to arrive in Singapore
within 25 days.
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Shreyas to acquire new vessels; expanding warehousing capacity
to strengthen containerised cargo traffic
In view of the expansion plans,
Shreyas has decided to acquire two additional container vessels for its
services. Presently Shreyas owns and operates four vessels and Shreyas Relay
Systems moves six lakhs tonne of cargo per annum through multimodal
logistics system. In order to have a backward integration of its processes,
the company now proposes to set up warehousing facilities of approximately
one lakh square feet at strategic locations across the country in the
initial stages and scale it up in coming years as per need. At present, the
company operates around eight trailers and proposes to introduce state of
art technically advanced 100 newer fleet over a period of time.
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Gati ties up with Europe based Fly Meridian Mobile to offer end
to end 3PL services
Gati recently announced a tie-up with
Europe based Fly Meridian Mobile to provide integrated operations right from
procurement to warehousing, inventory management, order management,
demand-supply support and analytics, distribution and reverse logistics.
Gati has started a new vertical called Gati Redsun, which will manage the
new venture. The company sources asserted that this venture essentially cut
across services like domestic and international logistics (premium, express
and economy) and integrated value added services.
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Purfesh launches Multi-Room Control Box for cold storage
operators
Purfresh, a provider of clean
technologies that purify, protect, and preserve food and water, recently
announced the release of its Purfresh Multi-Room Control Box (MRCB)
technology. Integrated with Purfresh Cold Storage and Purfresh’s Intellipur
software analytics, MRCB enables a single ozone generator to precisely
distribute and control ozone in up to 16 cold storage rooms. The power and
advanced intelligence of Purfresh ozone generators ensures retailers,
distributors, and international cold storage operators can cost effectively
take advantage of ozone to enhance food safety, reduce decay, and control
ripening throughout their facilities.
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