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2018 August Issue<br />
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Centrolene New Product:<br />
Centrolene’s “Customer Portal”<br />
now connects to CargoWise<br />
in seconds………………........………….3<br />
Centrolene New Product:<br />
Centrolene Wazzup?<br />
Real-time cargo monitoring..........4,5,6,7<br />
External article:<br />
Freight digitalization progresses<br />
as Lufthansa Cargo joins live<br />
spot-rates sales channel…..…….....8,9,10<br />
External article:<br />
CargoSmart launches blockchain<br />
initiative to simplify ocean freight<br />
processes…..……..........................11,12,13<br />
All about NTG Global<br />
Finland Oy……………….……..………..14,15,16,17<br />
Transorient, Turkey acquired<br />
GDP accreditation for<br />
Pharmaceutical Handling,<br />
Transport and Logistics……………...18,19<br />
NEW Members Onboard..............20,21,22<br />
Membership Renewal..................23<br />
Centrolene Global Coverage…….…24, 25
Centrolene’s “Customer Portal”<br />
now connects to CargoWise in seconds<br />
Centrolene Solutions successfully developed a data integration hub to receive data files<br />
instantly into The Customer Portal from CargoWise One eAdaptor outbound web service.<br />
With the data integration from your operating system, CargoWise you can now enhance<br />
your digital presence towards your clients within your very own Customer Portal and<br />
within the Centrolene C-Suite.<br />
Learn more about the “Customer Portal” and “C-Tower” get in touch with us.<br />
2 simple steps to connect Customer Portal with CargoWise:<br />
• CargoWise ID / CargoWise One license code<br />
• Enter web address: eServices/Outbound eAdaptor<br />
Service URL in your CargoWise registry<br />
Data available in your Customer Portal and C-Tower:<br />
Shipment & order supply chain visibility + Milestones track & trace<br />
+ Reporting financial, volume & performance<br />
rob@centrolene.com<br />
for 30 days FREE trial
Centrolene Wazzup?<br />
Real-time cargo monitoring<br />
The Centrolene Wazzup? device continuously uploads data to Centrolene's Control<br />
Tower via a GSM network connection, with automatic backup to the Centrolene Cloud -<br />
giving you the ability to make informed decisions based on real-time updates, and<br />
unprecedented power to build your business. Monitor location, humidity, temperature,<br />
light and shock in real time. The IoT platform can continuously monitor the location and<br />
conditions of cargo and assets via wireless sensors and send specific alerts when<br />
management exceptions occur (delays, damages, thefts, etc.).
Where is my cargo?<br />
Tired of asking that question? Bored of following up with<br />
truckers, carriers and other transport providers?<br />
24/7 data control<br />
Increased quality and safety<br />
Eliminates human error<br />
Transparency for all stakeholders<br />
Enables proactive action<br />
Increases profit potential<br />
Potential cost reductions on cargo insurance
How it works?<br />
No matter what your business involves, your biggest challenge will always lie in<br />
protecting your assets.<br />
With Centrolene Wazzup?, you can monitor any environment – moving or static – for<br />
every external influence.<br />
Temperature<br />
Light<br />
Humidity<br />
Shock<br />
In real time. Without actually being there.<br />
5 digital sensors display in C-Tower<br />
Location
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100-day battery life<br />
Reusable & rechargeable<br />
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Freight digitalization progresses as<br />
Lufthansa Cargo joins live spot-rates<br />
sales channel<br />
Source: Lloyd’s Loading List<br />
Date: 16 th July, 2018<br />
Partnership with cargo.one enables air freight forwarders to book available<br />
air freight capacity completely digitally, with immediate confirmation<br />
Air freight digitalization is set to enter a new stage after one of the sector’s<br />
largest players, Lufthansa Cargo, agreed to join the live spot-rates sales<br />
channel cargo.one – an airline-independent digital platform for marketing and<br />
booking of air freight capacity.<br />
The partnership with cargo.one enables air freight forwarders to book<br />
available air freight capacity completely digitally, with immediate<br />
confirmations. Although cargo.one said it already has more than 10 airlines on<br />
its booking platform, Lufthansa Cargo is thought to be its largest airline<br />
partner to date.<br />
The German carrier said: “Lufthansa Cargo is thus opening up a new digital<br />
sales channel for the spot segment. The globally available capacities of<br />
Lufthansa Cargo will be integrated into the cargo.one offering for this<br />
purpose.<br />
“The partnership between cargo.one and Lufthansa Cargo enables air freight<br />
forwarders to book available air freight capacities for td.Flash and td.Pro
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completely digitally and in real time across the entire available route grid of<br />
Lufthansa Cargo.” The td.Flash and td.Pro products are the carrier’s timedefinite<br />
products for express and general freight, respectively.<br />
Lufthansa Cargo said the sales platform offered customers a completely “upto-date<br />
online offering”, noting: “All important information about the<br />
connections as well as the real capacity-dependent and dynamic live spot<br />
rates are clearly displayed. For each connection, numerous alternatives are<br />
displayed at a glance so that the optimal offer can be found quickly.”<br />
Although the air freight sector began exploring online sales portals more than<br />
a decade ago, including via neutral channels such as GF-X and CPS, the use of<br />
neutral online booking channels by freight forwarders and airlines has failed<br />
to take off in a meaningful way. However, new pressures driven by e-<br />
commerce look set to accelerate their adoption within air freight.<br />
Peter Gerber, chairman of the board of Lufthansa Cargo, commented:<br />
“Digitization allows information to be distributed around the globe in fractions<br />
of a second. This has given rise to new expectations with which both carriers<br />
and freight forwarders are confronted.<br />
“We are therefore now offering our customers the opportunity to exchange<br />
prices and capacities even faster and to book services even easier. Booking<br />
platforms such as cargo.one will in future support forwarders in meeting their<br />
customers’ needs even better. This is the next logical step in the digitization of<br />
our industry.”<br />
Oliver Neumann, founder of cargo.one, commented: “We are pleased to<br />
partner with Lufthansa Cargo as the leading air cargo airline in our mission to<br />
make air cargo bookable digitally and in real time. Many solutions on the<br />
market promise digital bookability; the reality is that in most cases the rates<br />
offered do not give access to capacity.
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“In particular at times of high demand, our solution offers air freight<br />
forwarders a quick and easy access to capacities with immediate confirmation<br />
at live spot rates.”<br />
Neumann said the US$84 billion global air cargo market remained mostly “still<br />
offline and immensely intransparent”, adding: “It takes a forwarder hours to<br />
get quotes from airlines, bookings aren’t made online, documents aren’t<br />
digital, and communication asynchronous.<br />
“By building a platform that solves these issues, we will bring more<br />
transparency to the overall market and enable freight forwarders to book<br />
freight on a specific flight to a specific dynamic price with a simple click of a<br />
button. Together we will change this market and build the backbone of<br />
modern air freight.”
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CargoSmart launches blockchain<br />
initiative to simplify ocean freight<br />
processes<br />
Source: Lloyd’s Loading List<br />
Date: 20 th July, 2018<br />
New platform claims to increase document accuracy and traceability,<br />
allowing shippers, forwarders, carriers, truckers, and customs agencies to<br />
collaborate more efficiently<br />
Freight software solutions provider CargoSmart has launched a blockchainbased<br />
solution, backed by Oracle, to streamline and improve the current<br />
complex system of ocean freight shipment documentation and supply chain<br />
processes.<br />
The software specialist, which has received investment from container line<br />
OOCL, said its blockchain solution aimed to “simplify the shipping<br />
documentation process, increase trust, and boost efficiency”, by establishing<br />
“a digital baseline for trusted shipment documentation management across<br />
the shipping and logistics industry”. It would allow shippers, forwarders,<br />
carriers, truckers, and customs agencies to collaborate more efficiently<br />
through the platform, which would provide “a single version of truth and an<br />
immutable audit trail”.<br />
CargoSmart said: “Connected through a blockchain documentation platform,<br />
the entire shipping ecosystem can reduce disputes, avoid late penalties from<br />
customs agencies, expedite documentation turnaround times, and better<br />
manage detention and demurrage costs.”
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CargoSmart projects a 65% reduction in the amount of time required to<br />
collect, consolidate, and confirm data from multiple parties and to handle<br />
shipping data that is repetitive in different documents by leveraging its<br />
blockchain shipment documentation solution.<br />
It noted that shipping document handling processes were currently complex<br />
and include dated paper processes that involve many stakeholders across<br />
countries, adding: “In addition, companies in global shipping have very diverse<br />
technical capabilities and data standards, exchanging documents in many<br />
formats including email, online forms, and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).”<br />
On average, a single shipment can involve more than 30 documents<br />
exchanged by all parties, often with multiple revisions due to human errors,<br />
before it leaves port, the company noted. It said document handling was<br />
particularly extensive for shippers and their logistics service providers with<br />
specialized cargo. For example, shipping dangerous goods requires numerous<br />
certificates to state that declared goods are classified and packed correctly.<br />
“Some of the shipping document contents are filled repeatedly into different<br />
declaration forms,” the company added. “CargoSmart’s blockchain solution<br />
reduces the risk of misdeclaration and speeds up the filing process. When<br />
documents are submitted accurately and timely, the cargo can continue to<br />
move according to plan.”<br />
Steve Siu, chief executive officer of CargoSmart, commented: “Blockchain<br />
technology provides immutable records and a trusted network to offer secure<br />
and traceable documentation. Providing a solution for supply chain parties to<br />
auto-fill repeated and verified information can dramatically increase data<br />
accuracy and efficiency for the whole logistics process.”<br />
To develop the initiative, CargoSmart has been working closely with Oracle,<br />
which recently launched Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service. Oracle’s blockchain
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platform enables organisations to easily build blockchain networks to drive<br />
more secure and efficient transactions and to track goods through supply<br />
chains on a global scale, CargoSmart said.<br />
“Its enterprise-grade architecture, interoperability and decentralized<br />
governance model make it ideal for organizing and tracking international<br />
shipments through all involved parties,” the company added. “CargoSmart will<br />
continue working with Oracle to build comprehensive blockchain networks<br />
with breadth and depth to serve key customers.”<br />
Amit Zavery, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Platform, commented:<br />
“Maritime shipping is essential to global trade, but it often suffers from<br />
inefficiencies in the complex documentation processes across many involved<br />
parties. CargoSmart’s new solution, powered by Oracle’s blockchain cloud<br />
platform can help engender trust and confidence in the ecosystem. Its gives<br />
users across the entire shipping ecosystem a trusted, secure, scalable, and<br />
resilient means to share information, helping to speed up turnaround time,<br />
reduce disputes and lower costs.”<br />
The move comes as a number of container shipping and logistics companies<br />
have already launched initiatives to explore and develop the use of blockchain<br />
technology. Maersk and IBM announced a blockchain joint venture in January,<br />
while APL and Pacific International Lines have been testing blockchain<br />
solutions with partners.<br />
However, the chief executives of Hapag-Lloyd and Ocean Network Express<br />
have pointed to the lack of industry standardisation as the main stumbling<br />
block to a further application of the technology in container shipping.
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NTG Global Finland Oy<br />
NTG Global Finland has recently joined the Centrolene family and we<br />
want the family to get familiar with our company but also the people<br />
behind the scenes and Finland as a country.<br />
Nordic Transport Group (NTG)<br />
NTG Global Finland Oy is a part of Nordic Transport Group A/S (NTG),<br />
which is a fast-growing Danish freight forwarding company rapidly<br />
expanding with branches worldwide. The company has roots stretching<br />
back to 1866, but activities under NTG started in the current form in<br />
April 2011 by a team of experienced and ambitious industry<br />
professionals. NTG is a privately-owned company – owned by its<br />
employees.<br />
NTG Global Finland Oy started its activity in the current form in April<br />
2015 when Posti Oy’s international freight services were acquired,<br />
however our history goes way back to 1942, when Kaukohuolinta started<br />
its operations in Finland. Employees and management all come from the<br />
transport sector and all have extensive expertise in a wide variety of<br />
logistics services. Our staff consists of the best professionals with<br />
decades of experience and local know-how, so we will provide the most<br />
efficient solution to you.
The country – Finland<br />
Finland is an interesting country, both marketwise and as a state. Last<br />
year, we celebrated 100 years of independence, which we are really<br />
proud of as the small country we are. Our winters are cold and dark,<br />
while our summers are full of light, when the sun does not basically set<br />
at all at some parts of the country. Additionally, we were ranked as the<br />
happiest country in the world in 2018 by the World Happiness Report.<br />
The country is basically an island, which makes transports sometimes<br />
challenging.
Main commodities<br />
When it comes business, Finland is well known for the high quality of<br />
the products we manufacture. The main commodities that are exported<br />
from Finland are pulp and paper, timber, machinery, electrical and<br />
optical equipment and chemicals. Meanwhile, the main commodities<br />
that Finland imports are electronic products, textiles, foodstuff,<br />
machinery, steel and iron, petroleum and chemicals.<br />
Services<br />
NTG offers all types of logistics services here in Finland and we are also<br />
experts in transit business to Russia. We have about 80 employees<br />
working at 3 offices. The expected turnover for 2018 is 80MEUR. Our<br />
services include:<br />
• Air freight services with own IATA license<br />
• Sea freight with own contract rates<br />
• Rail freight services<br />
• Road freight (FTL, LTL & groupage in Europe and Russia including CIS countries)<br />
• Project transport<br />
• Customs services<br />
• Transit business to Russia
Contact<br />
Our main office in Finland is located just next to the Helsinki Airport,<br />
which is ideal when it comes to all kind of transports. Our team is ready<br />
to help you with your next shipment, so don’t hesitate to get in contact<br />
with us. Also, if you only have a question you need an answer to. You<br />
can find our contact details below:<br />
Requests: sales.fi@ntgglobal.com<br />
Main contact:<br />
Linda Nyberg<br />
Sales Manager<br />
NTG Global Finland Oy<br />
Huurrekuja 2<br />
FI-04360 Tuusula, Finland<br />
Mobile: +358 45 775 05119<br />
Email: lny@ntgglobal.com<br />
www.ntgglobal.com
Transorient started their corporate journey with their core competencies in road freight and<br />
customs brokerage and with the mission to be a bridge between West and East'in 1961.<br />
During half a century, they have stretched their boundaries and gained expertise in Air, Ocean and<br />
Intermodal transportation.<br />
Their vision to add value to transportation by bringing innovative solutions using technological<br />
benefits have given them a distinguished position in Turkish logistics sector.<br />
Today, combination of local in-depth knowledge, global connections, rigorous and measurable<br />
service standards give them the capacity to offer full range of supply chain solutions at highest<br />
levels.<br />
Vision<br />
Through sustainable growth, become and stay as your preferred solution partner.<br />
Mission<br />
With a solution oriented mindset we provide high quality and rapid value to your supply chain.<br />
Values
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For more than three decades International Maritime and Aviation (IMA) LLC has been serving a<br />
growing nation, keeping abreast of a rapidly changing corporate landscape and embracing the<br />
phenomenal development of the region. The growth of the UAE and its transformation into a<br />
business, logistics, trade and finance hub in the Middle East has ideally positioned IMA as a dynamic<br />
logistical entity.<br />
From air-freight and ocean-freight to road transportation and niche specializations in project<br />
management, industrial packing, supply chain management and warehousing solutions, IMA<br />
provides a full, multi-faceted service. The company’s expansion and diversification of services from<br />
1980 to today stand testament to its past, present and future.<br />
Its strong foundations have provided a base for development and have allowed the brand to evolve<br />
into the major body it is today. Based out of the city’s main trading hub right next to Dubai<br />
International Airport, IMA also handles operations from multi-platform logistics facility Dubai World<br />
Central and Jebel Ali Port – the largest port in the Middle East – amongst other strategic locations.
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SHANGHAI HENGMING INTERNATIONAL FORWARDING CO., LTD. is an A-Class international<br />
forwarding co., ltd authorized by Ministry of Economic & Trade of P.R. China (now is Ministry of<br />
Commerce). The main businesses of our company are: air & ocean transport for international<br />
import/ export cargo, agent for customs declaration & inspection declaration, chartering vessel &<br />
booking cargo space, and distribution, storage, transport, and insurance for imported cargo etc.<br />
They laid stress on substantial results and strict management; our tenet is "Customer-orientated"<br />
and our target is not only to satisfy the demands from our customers, but also make perfect in all<br />
phases of our business operation.<br />
They have been maintaining very good collaboration relationship with various airlines, shipping<br />
companies, government departments, seaports, and airports, as well as omnidirectionally provided<br />
convenient, fast and first-class freight transport service to our customers in worldwide.<br />
They possessed a group of youthful & vigorous staff with comprehensive & professional knowledge.<br />
They are equipped with "Working License for Freight Transport", "License for Customs Declaration",<br />
"License for Commodity Inspection", and "IATA Certificate".
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Over 24 years of experience and excellence in logistics industry, CEL LOGISTICS, INC. was built and<br />
established on November 03, 1992 in Manila and in January of 1998, expanded and launch<br />
operations in Cebu.<br />
CEL LOGISTICS, INC. is accredited with the Philippine Shippers Bureau and started its business as<br />
non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC), and as an international freight forwarder and cargo<br />
consolidator. Providing services linked with reputable and well-experienced associates covering<br />
worldwide origins and destinations.<br />
CEL LOGISTICS, INC. maintains close working relationship with various government-affiliated<br />
agencies and port operators like the Maritime Industry Authority (MARIANA), Philippine Ports<br />
Authority (PPA), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), International Container Terminal Services,<br />
Inc. (ICTSI), and the Manila South Harbor.<br />
To meet and keep up with our customers' logistics needs, CEL LOGISTICS, INC. continuously invest in<br />
the necessary tool upgrades and technologies, establishes partnership with both local and<br />
international agents.
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• ProLink Brasil Agenciamento de Carga Ltda – Brazil<br />
• Global Cargo Logistix Pvt Ltd – India
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al Coverage<br />
Wanted Members in<br />
the following<br />
countries:<br />
• Albania<br />
• Bolivia<br />
• Cameroon<br />
• Denmark<br />
• Ecuador<br />
• Ethiopia<br />
• Kyrgyzstan<br />
• Lao<br />
• Maldives<br />
• Namibia<br />
• Rwanda<br />
• Sierra Leone<br />
• Sudan<br />
• Tanzania<br />
• Ukraine<br />
• Venezuela<br />
• Yemen<br />
• Zambia<br />
• Zimbabwe
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