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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE/UNITED KINGDOM
Awards for employee qualification
DB Schenker Rail (UK) has won two prizes for its vocational
training programmes at the Employer Engagement Awards
presented by West Nottinghamshire College.
On March 2010, the company won the coveted Employer of
the Year Award for its commitment to staff qualification and
in-house basic and advanced vocational training. Moreover,
Sean Levell, Production Manager at DB Schenker Rail (UK),
also received the Lifelong Learning Award. As a consultant for
the British vocational training programme NVQ, he played a
part in making the DB Schenker rail depot in Leicester the first
depot to be staffed exclusively with train drivers who have
NVQ qualifications.
BERLIN/GERMANY
DB Schenker Rail and Papierfabrik Palm Win Prestigious
2010 Cooperation Award
The “2010 Award for Cooperation in Transport and Linguistics” advertised annually by the
Federal Association for Economics, Transport and Logistics [Bundesverband Wirtschaft,
Verkehr und Logistik BWVL] and the Deutsche Logistik-Zeitung DVZ was presented this
year to DB Schenker Rail and Papierfabrik Palm. The jury was won over by the joint logistics
concept put forward by both companies for supplying Palm’s power plant at the paper mill
located in Wörth, Rhineland-Palatinate. Stephan Strauss, Head of the Marketing Division for
Construction Materials, Industrial and Consumer Goods at DB Schenker Rail, and Hartmut
Kassuhn, Director of Logistics at the Palm Group, accepted the award in Berlin on 20 April.
The criteria for the award were the increase in efficiency and quality, close integration of
organisation and information technology, practice-oriented implementation of innovative
technologies, conservation of resources and a reduction of transfer times, administrative
expenditure, defect levels and logistics costs.
GERMANY
Nation-wide Logistics Day
On 15 April 2010, DB Schenker took part yet
again in the nationwide Logistics Day instigated
by the Federal Association for Logistics
[Bundesvereinigung Logistik BVL] by issuing
an open invitation to 14 of its sites. Over 600
pupils and students had the chance to gain an
insight into the complexity of logistics operations
and to learn about the entry opportunities
and day-to-day work carried out by a global
provider of transport and logistics service.
Photos: P. Widmann/mauritius images, Pablo Castagnola,
DB AG, Christian Trampenau
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