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magazine<br />
summer 20<strong>18</strong>
<strong>FIG</strong> Annual Conference 20<strong>18</strong><br />
HONG KONG - 14-16 October<br />
Penta Hotel - Kowloon<br />
Penta Hotel - Kowloon<br />
See <strong>FIG</strong> website >> www.figgroup.net<br />
See FULL PROGRAMME in our <strong>FIG</strong> e-magazine<br />
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‘Early Bird’ Special’<br />
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index<br />
Talk to Me! 1-2<br />
our new e-mail tool - send to all current<br />
members with a single address.<br />
Whatsappening! 3-4<br />
join the <strong>FIG</strong> Whatsapp Group to ‘stay in<br />
the loop’<br />
Long-Distance Interview 5-9<br />
<strong>FIG</strong> Canada celebrates 5 years with <strong>FIG</strong>!<br />
Latest <strong>FIG</strong>S 10<br />
use them or lose them - family-time!<br />
Economic Freedom 13-14<br />
who, why, when, what, where…<br />
Amarine - Korea/Vietnam 15-16<br />
‘meet the members - <strong>FIG</strong> Conference
Talk to Me!!!<br />
Our members have been asking for a simple<br />
email address to contact ALL <strong>FIG</strong> Partners at<br />
the same time - well here it is!<br />
Simply compose your email from any email service ie. Outlook<br />
/ google / yahoo etc and use the following address…<br />
us1-22fbe7b395-80aebb58cd@inbound.mailchimp.com<br />
(TIP: best to copy and paste this address to avoid any errors)<br />
• Send your email…<br />
• You will receive a confirmation of your request…<br />
• Simply type ‘SEND’ in the confirmation email (and press<br />
send)…<br />
• That’s it! DONE!<br />
• NB: Our list of recipients is based on the addresses on the<br />
<strong>FIG</strong> Website. If you wish additional staff to receive<br />
‘general’ emails - just let us know.
1: Compose your mail<br />
2: Send your mail<br />
3: You will receive confirmation<br />
4: Type ‘SEND’ - that’s it!
One of the easiest ways to stay in touch with your<br />
<strong>FIG</strong> family is to join our <strong>FIG</strong> Whatsapp Group. Simply<br />
download Whatsapp to your phone and/or desktop<br />
and you can chat and make phone/video calls completely<br />
free! Just let us know once you have the app<br />
and we will add you to our group…<br />
<strong>FIG</strong> Partners already registered:-<br />
DENMARK<br />
GREECE<br />
UK<br />
ROMANIA<br />
TAIWAN<br />
KSA<br />
SOUTH AFRICA<br />
Just adding<br />
BELGIUM<br />
POLAND<br />
SWITZERLAND<br />
BRAZIL<br />
AUSTRALIA<br />
THAILAND<br />
CYPRUS<br />
PAKISTAN, SINGAPORE...
DOWNLOAD WHATSAPP TO YOUR PHONE…<br />
Just follow the appropriate link below to download…<br />
ANDROID<br />
https://www.whatsapp.com/android/<br />
IOS - ’I’ PHONE<br />
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/<br />
id310633997?mt=8<br />
You can even download Whatsapp to your desktop…<br />
NB: your phone must be with you and turned on.<br />
WINDOWS or MAC<br />
https://www.whatsapp.com/download/<br />
WELL??? WHATSAPP???<br />
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR???<br />
LET’S GO!!!
FOCUS ON...<br />
<strong>FIG</strong> CANADA<br />
Our friends at <strong>FIG</strong> Canada are approaching<br />
their 5th anniversary as members of the <strong>FIG</strong><br />
family and we thought this was a great time<br />
for some of our newer ‘<strong>FIG</strong>s’ to get to know<br />
our ‘Canadian cousins’ a little better…<br />
Take a look at Nu-Era’s video below...<br />
http://www.shipnuera.com/
CANADA’s NICKNAME IS ‘GREAT<br />
WHITE NORTH’ because it’s a<br />
‘GREAT’ big country… ‘WHITE’ with<br />
much of the landmass covered in<br />
snow and ‘NORTH’… well because<br />
it’s in the north!
LONG-DISTANCE<br />
INTERVIEW WITH<br />
Q: Please tell us a little about Nu Era and how the<br />
company evolved into a ‘global player’.<br />
A: Originally, we focused on a few select lanes between the<br />
US and Canada that we knew we could service extremely<br />
well. However, as we grew, we expanded our reach across<br />
all of North America. Our expansion outside North America<br />
actually came from discussions with our customers. It<br />
seemed that everybody wanted one thing. They wanted a<br />
‘one-stop shop’. One company to do it all!<br />
Q: Where are your principle market-places nowadays<br />
and where do you see development opportunities?<br />
JEFF DE SOUSA<br />
CEO - Nu Era Logistics Inc.<br />
international@shipnuera.com<br />
Q: Please tell us a little about your upbringing<br />
and career development in Canada.<br />
A:Having been the son of immigrant parents, I was never<br />
afraid of taking on hard work to make ends meets. One of<br />
my first jobs was with my Dad’s roofing company, lugging<br />
shingles up ladders for days on end. It was hard work but<br />
it gave me a respect for earning a dollar that I still carry<br />
with me today.<br />
Q: How did you come to be involved in logistics?<br />
A: After working construction for a while with my father’s<br />
company, I struck out on my own as a tow-truck driver.<br />
Although I loved working all across my home town of Toronto,<br />
I wanted to take my love of driving down new<br />
roads, so I became a long-haul truck driver, worked my<br />
way up the ladder at my company until I became Logistics<br />
Manager until I realized that I wanted to do things my<br />
own way. So in 2008 I ventured out on my own and<br />
founded Nu Era Logistics.<br />
A: Our primary international business is focused on importing<br />
and exporting between Europe and Canada.It currently<br />
accounts for appx. 80% of our business. With the current<br />
trade tensions between the US and Canada, I see the<br />
EU becoming a bigger trading partner with Canada over the<br />
next few years.<br />
Q: You have worked with quite a few ‘household<br />
names’ – you must have faced some interesting<br />
challenges…<br />
A: I think the one that sticks out the most was two loads of<br />
glass and revolving doors we were delivering to the Empire<br />
State Building in downtown New York. Our client had requested<br />
that our trucks arrive at 07:00am and that lane closures<br />
take place for2 hours. We could not be late as he had<br />
an 8 man crew and a crane meeting the trucks to offload.<br />
Our team arranged permits from the city for lane closures<br />
and for NYPD officers to direct traffic and manage the lane<br />
closure. Our trucks arrived on schedule only to find that the<br />
client had mixed-up his dates and did not arrive in time to<br />
offload the trucks! Our permits expired and the police forced<br />
us to leave the area. After scrambling to find a suitable<br />
warehouse in downtown Manhattan to house the project<br />
and for us to re-arrange permits… The project was finally<br />
completed some 3 weeks later!<br />
Q: Where do you see the future ‘obstacles’ in<br />
terms of global growth?<br />
A: I’d say name recognition. We’re a relatively small company<br />
in the industry, and when you reach out to companies in<br />
other countries they want a name they can recognize.
Overcoming this issue starts with working hard with the contacts<br />
we have to build a good reputation and building from<br />
there.<br />
Q: Tell us a little about your experiences working<br />
with our <strong>FIG</strong> ‘family’…<br />
A: I find one of the most valuable aspects of <strong>FIG</strong> is the <strong>FIG</strong><br />
Annual Conference, being able to meet the other Partners is<br />
‘key’ to us. We’ve made a lot of great contacts at the conferences<br />
we’ve attended and have always managed to leave<br />
with more business plus we always have a great time!<br />
‘KEEP ON TRUCKIN’<br />
As well as offering a complete<br />
global logistics package, Nu-Era<br />
will manage your distribution<br />
needs throughout North America!<br />
Q: Talking of ‘families’… you are clearly very<br />
‘family-focused’ (we have been delighted to welcome<br />
your family and staff to our various conferences)<br />
and even your ‘key-staff members’ seem<br />
like they have become ‘extended family… is this a<br />
strategy or are you just a ‘really friendly’ guy?<br />
A: We don’t have any written policy about our ‘family atmosphere’<br />
but it’s something that has evolved over time.<br />
Both my kids have worked for the company at different<br />
times and I try to keep things pretty relaxed around the<br />
office. We get our work done but we can also share a laugh<br />
and relax together from time to time. The great thing<br />
about creating that family feel is that it comes back to<br />
you—the co-workers who get that family feeling will<br />
stick it out with you through good times and bad!<br />
Q: Finally… which is the best brand of maple<br />
syrup?<br />
A: Canadian Finest - of course!<br />
Jeff with daughter Emily at our Bali Conference
DID YOU KNOW???<br />
Some interesting and lesser-known facts about Canada…<br />
• Canada spans 9,984,670 sq km and comprises 6 time zones.<br />
• Here’s another record: Canada has the world's longest coastline at 202,080<br />
km and is the second largest country in the world.<br />
• A bear cub named Winnipeg was exported from Canada to the London Zoo in<br />
1915. A little boy named Christopher Robin Milne loved to visit Winnipeg, or<br />
Winnie for short. His love for the bear cub inspired the stories written by his<br />
father, A.A. Milne, about Winnie-the-Pooh.<br />
• The Canadian motto, A Mari Usque ad Mare, means "From sea to sea."<br />
• Canada has twice been invaded by the USA, first in 1775 and again in <strong>18</strong>12.<br />
• Canada holds the record for the most gold medals ever won at the Winter<br />
Olympics, taking 14 Golds at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.<br />
• Canada was named through a misunderstanding. When Jaques Cartier, a<br />
French explorer, came to the new world, he met with local Natives who invited<br />
them to their 'kanata' (the word for ‘village’). The party mistakenly thought<br />
the name of the country was "Kanata" or Canada.<br />
• Canada’s only desert in British Columbia is only 15 miles long and is the only<br />
desert in the world with a long boardwalk for visitors to walk on.<br />
• And this leads us to what is perhaps the most surprising fact of all: Canada’s<br />
lowest recorded temperature is as cold as Mars! In the small village of Snag,<br />
in the Yukon Territory, the temperature of -63°C (-81.4°F) was recorded in<br />
February 1947. On average, the surface temperature of Mars is about -60°C<br />
TRADE STATS<br />
EXPORT $390.1billion (2016) IMPORT $416.6 billion (2016)<br />
Motor vehicles & parts, industrial<br />
machinery, aircraft, telecommunications<br />
equipment, chemicals, plastics,<br />
fertiliser, wood pulp, timber,<br />
crude petroleum, natural gas, electricity,<br />
aluminium.<br />
USA 76.2% - EU 7.7% - CHINA<br />
4.1% - JAPAN 2.1% - MEXICO<br />
1.5% - OTHER 8.4%<br />
Machinery & equipment, motor<br />
vehicles & parts, crude oil, chemicals,<br />
electricity, durable consumer<br />
goods.<br />
USA 52.2% - CHINA 12.1% - EU<br />
11.4% - MEXICO 6.2% - JAPAN<br />
3.0% - OTHER 15.1%
NEW GROWTH OF <strong>FIG</strong>S LOOKING GOOD<br />
FOR SPRING/SUMMER...<br />
Most of our long-standing ‘<strong>FIG</strong>s’ will know that our team at <strong>FIG</strong> Admin will not ‘shyaway’<br />
from making important decisions. We announced at our last <strong>FIG</strong> Conference<br />
that we will be ‘pruning’ our membership and removing some ‘dead-wood’ from our<br />
family. This programme is almost complete and we are delighted to welcome a new<br />
‘crop’ of stronger and more vigorous <strong>FIG</strong>s to our family.<br />
As one of the very few ‘exclusive’ freight networks in the world, it is vital to have<br />
trusted, efficient and financially secure members in our team. One weak link and<br />
our chain will not function efficiently. There is no place for non-active members or<br />
those who do not contribute to the ‘greater-good’ of our ongoing success.<br />
We have various measures in place to constantly monitor our <strong>FIG</strong> Partners including<br />
our <strong>FIG</strong> ‘Gold Standard’ (NB: You will note that all our <strong>FIG</strong> Partners are graded<br />
Gold/Silver/Bronze based on performance) and our Annual Review of fellow members<br />
by our <strong>FIG</strong> Partners.<br />
In the past few weeks we have removed members from INDIA and COLOMBIA for<br />
poor performance and late payment - please take the time to check our listings on<br />
the <strong>FIG</strong> website regularly. If a company is not listed - DO NOT WORK WITH THEM!<br />
Over the past few months, we have added several new members, all with highly impressive<br />
credentials. If you have not yet made contact, now is the time!<br />
Our latest family members…<br />
KOREA<br />
NIGERIA<br />
PHILIPPINES<br />
SOUTH AFRICA<br />
SINGAPORE<br />
TURKEY<br />
UAE<br />
VIETNAM<br />
Amarine<br />
United Redox Global Links<br />
Maxfreight Logistics<br />
Santova Logistics<br />
Jenkar Freight Services<br />
Global Konteyner<br />
Jatco Freight Services<br />
Amarine<br />
See FULL LISTINGS and contact details here<br />
www.figgroup.net/partners
<strong>FIG</strong> SINGAPORE<br />
HENRY LIM - Director<br />
We manage a range of cargo from<br />
small packages to full container loads,<br />
and pride ourselves in making effective,<br />
on-time deliveries at competitive<br />
rates. Our clients gain the full advantage<br />
of our extensive worldwide<br />
network. With local contacts almost<br />
anywhere in the world, the Jenkar Express<br />
Worldwide Export Link (JEWEL)<br />
effectively tracks delivery progress<br />
and provides our customers with valuable<br />
information and assistance while<br />
eliminating communications delays<br />
and language barriers.<br />
In value-adding to our clients’ business,<br />
we provide assistance in locating<br />
the right markets, appointing the<br />
best agents and maximizing the acquisition<br />
of export orders.<br />
Today, we remain the number one<br />
choice among multinationals, major<br />
corporations and established names<br />
in their respective industries.<br />
Index of Economic Freedom<br />
Today, we live in the most prosperous time in<br />
human history. Poverty, sicknesses, and ignorance<br />
are receding throughout the world, due in<br />
large part to the advance of economic freedom.<br />
In 20<strong>18</strong>, the principles of economic freedom that<br />
have fueled this monumental progress are once<br />
again measured in the Index of Economic Freedom,<br />
an annual guide published by The Heritage<br />
Foundation, Washington's No. 1 think tank.<br />
For over twenty years the Index has delivered<br />
thoughtful analysis in a clear, friendly, and<br />
straight-forward format. With new resources for<br />
users and a website tailored for research and<br />
education, the Index of Economic Freedom is<br />
poised to help readers track over two decades<br />
of the advancement in economic freedom, prosperity,<br />
and opportunity and promote these ideas<br />
in their homes, schools, and communities.<br />
The Index covers 12 freedoms – from property<br />
rights to financial freedom – in <strong>18</strong>6 countries.<br />
We have listed the top 12 countries on the opposite<br />
page. Our readers may be surprised to<br />
note that our friends in Hong Kong and Singapore<br />
are the most highly rated with USA -’Land<br />
of the Free’(17) and Germany (25).<br />
It is interesting to note which governments are<br />
operating in a truly ‘free’ economy and which<br />
are turning toward ‘protectionism’ as the realities<br />
of a global economy materialise.<br />
See the ‘Index of Economic Freedom’ website<br />
https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking<br />
E: henry@jenkarsin.com.sg<br />
W: www.jenkarsin.com.sg
COUNTRY OVERALL CHANGE<br />
1 HONG KONG 90.2 +0.4<br />
2 SINGAPORE 88.8 +0.2<br />
3 NEW ZEALAND 84.2 +0.5<br />
4 SWITZERLAND 81.7 +0.2<br />
5 AUSTRALIA 80.9 -0.1<br />
6 IRELAND 80.4 +3.7<br />
7 ESTONIA 78.8 -0.3<br />
8 UK 78.0 +1.6<br />
9 CANADA 77.7 -0.3<br />
10 UAE 77.6 +0.7<br />
11 ICELAND 77.0 +2.6<br />
12 DENMARK 76.6 +1.5<br />
PICTURES: Henry is contributing to the<br />
‘free’ economy of Singapore moving this<br />
mobile plant from CHINA to INDONESIA,<br />
MALAYSIA, INDIA, AFICA, PHILIPPINES<br />
ETC
Joining us for our 20<strong>18</strong> <strong>FIG</strong> Conference in Hong Kong will be Amarine who<br />
joined <strong>FIG</strong> in October 2017 and continue to build partnerships with member<br />
firms in the Network.<br />
Amarine specialize in an extensive range of forwarding, shipping, warehousing<br />
and transportation services through air, land and sea across the globe including<br />
TCR (Trans-China Railway) and TMR (Trans-Mongolia Railway)<br />
Amarine represents <strong>FIG</strong> as our exclusive representative in both South Korea<br />
and in Vietnam (HCM)<br />
Amarine Vietnam office handles shipments of around 1,000TEU per month to<br />
various countries the main commodities being frozen foods and furniture.<br />
Amarine Korea has FMC license (org no. 025414) for USA business and has service<br />
contracts with various carriers. (HMM/ONE/OOCL/Evergreen)<br />
www.u-amarine.com
SAY HELLO…<br />
‘Annyeong’<br />
‘Chào ban’<br />
Mr Cesar Sim - CEO<br />
cesar@u-marine.com<br />
(see also <strong>FIG</strong> whatsapp group)<br />
Mr S H Cho - General Manager<br />
shcho@u-marine.com<br />
Kathy Lamthai - Vietnam Office<br />
kathy@u-marine.com
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