New logistics concept for Husqvarna CEE network ... - Geis Group

Hamburg:
Air and sea freight under
one roof
An increased local presence and the use of
synergies - these are the two main reasons
for bringing together the air and sea freight
areas of Geis SDV in Hamburg.
On 12 December 2009, the entire Geis SDV
sea freight team, including the management,
moved into the air freight office.
The new joint address is:
Obenhauptstr. 11, 22335 Hamburg
„By having a common office, we‘re not only
making optimal use of synergies but also promoting
the uniform image of Geis SDV to
the outside world“, says Site Manager Claus
Freydag.
SDV Projects employees moved to Obenhauptstraße
two weeks before the sea freight
team. More than 100 employees now work
here under one roof. —
Aerospace Logistics
bundles together skills
Geis SDV is investing strongly in its Aerospace
Logistics product area in order to bundle
together skills and expertise. The main
beneficiaries of the subsequent shorter decision
paths and faster allocation of experienced
advisors will be customers.
Since January, Jan Kleine-Lasthues has
worked as Director Aerospace Sales Germany
and is responsible for German sales activities,
while Jens Elsner, as Director Aerospace
Operations Germany, is responsible
for the operational side of the business. Jens
Elsner, who on 1 February 2010 was conferred
power of attorney for Geis SDV, manages
the operational area as an independent
profit centre. These changes have already
been implemented at Hamburg and Frankfurt,
with Munich to follow
on 1 January 2011. —
Jens elsner,
director aerospace
operations germany
a surprise
in aFrica
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Shipping goods from Kenya to Zimbabwe is normally
routine work for Geis SDV. However, when one shipment
contained 21 tonnes of medical materials, things took
an unexpected turn.
Originally, around 1,200 packs of medicines and medical supplies were
to be transported by road from Nairobi to Harare on behalf of the
Tübingen-based Deutsches Institut für Ärztliche Mission e.V. (German
Institute for Medical Mission). But then everything changed: At the end of November
2009, just as the Geis SDV Stuttgart team and local colleagues were
about to load the truck, the government of Zimbabwe closed its borders to medical
shipments due to increased smuggling of counterfeit drugs.
To ensure ThaT The urgenTly required medicines did reach their destination,
Geis SDV and SDV‘s experts kept their cool and overnight drew up an alternative
plan. They separated the medicines from the remainder of the shipment and flew
them with the approval of the Medicine Control Authority Zimbabwe to Harare,
while the remaining goods were sent as planned by road to Zimbabwe. „At the airport,
the medicines went through customs without any problems and arrived on time
with the customer - the Zimbabwe Association of Church Related Hospitals, as did
the truck shipments“, says Joachim Wittner, head of Geis SDV‘s Stuttgart office,
which oversaw the project. —
Foto: Fotolia/Sabrina Gwerder