Recently awarded / renewed contracts

Kitchen and joinery specialist, Magnet, has renewed its contract with Wincanton for another five years.

Originally secured in 2002, the contract means that Wincanton will continue to deliver Magnet’s kitchen products across the UK.

Operating from its hub in Darlington, goods will be trunked to out bases in Mossend, Lutterworth, Milton Keynes, Gatwick and Portbury ready for next-day delivery.

The end of November saw Pacific Highway transport the first Suzuki vehicles for the Austrian market to Bremerhaven. As the exclusive automobile logistician for the German-based subsidiary of the Japanese Suzuki Motor Corp, BLG Logistics was recently awarded the contract to handle and perform initial technical processing of the Asia-manufactured vehicles intended for the Austrian market.

The annual handling volume of vehicles treated with body cavity protection and underbody protection in Bremerhaven is expected to be around 4,000. The cars are then transported from Bremerhaven to the Austrian town of Straßwalchen by Lagermax and BLG Logistics in roughly the same volumes. Further technical processing continues to be performed at the terminal of the Austrian partner, Lagermax.

Suzuki has been importing models made in Japan and India through Bremerhaven since 1980, with BLG Logistics being responsible for the technical processing and transportation to the German dealers.

Menlo Worldwide Logistics has announced a new contract with PUMA to provide warehousing and inventory management and domestic delivery in Singapore.

In addition to overseeing domestic distribution in Singapore for PUMA, Menlo will manage 21,000 sq.ft of rack/shelving space at a multi-client warehouse located in Boon Lay Way, Singapore.

The scope of the logistics management relationship includes domestic transportation, the use of Menlo’s warehouse management system (SIMS), as well as a range of value-added services such as price tagging for retail distribution points, returns management and tendering orders for overseas shipments.

Menlo’s multi-client warehouse management solution offers flexibility in contract commitment length, the ability to share existing IT platforms, an experienced management and labor infrastructure, requisite equipment and assets, and a more extensive geographic network of pre-configured warehouse operations.

Menlo has multi-client facilities in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and six locations in Singapore, as well as other locations in Asia-Pacific such as Malaysia, Hong Kong, China (Shanghai Waigaoqiao, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Shenzhen and Wuhan), Thailand (Bangkok), India (Mumbai and New Delhi) and Australia (Sydney).

Vos Logistics and Agri Retail have agreed a new three-year logistics service agreement, whereby Vos Logistics will supply more than 230 stores from Agri Retail’s distribution centre in Ede every day using a flexible pool of between fifteen and forty trucks.

Agri Retail has worked with Vos Logistics since 2000. The two companies will now look at opportunities to use both longer combination vehicles (Ecocombi’s) and LNG (liquefied natural gas) trucks.

Vos Logistics‘ site in Oss currently has the only LNG filling station in northwest Europe.  Vos intends to integrate between 50 and 100 LNG trucks into its national distribution network in the near term, some of which will be used to serve Agri Retail.

Damco has renewed its contract to serve as PETCO’s exclusive customs brokerage solutions provider in North America.

Under the contract, Damco will handle PETCO’s brokerage at all US import ports for four of the company’s ten national distribution centres.