NOTICIAS MES DE FEBRERO DE 2002 (NEWS)

 

28/02/02 Kuehne & Nagel purchased the remaining 50 per cent of the shares of KN Deicmar SA, Sao Paulo. The group now wholly own subsidiary in Brazil

After a successful period of cooperation with its joint venture partner Deicmar SA, Kuehne & Nagel has purchased the remaining 50 per cent of the shares of KN Deicmar SA, Sao Paulo. The now wholly owned Kuehne & Nagel subsidiary in Brazil operates under the name Kuehne & Nagel Ltda.

In the year 1990 Kuehne & Nagel entered into a joint venture with Deicmar SA, a Brazilian customs broker and bonded warehouse operator. By purchasing the remaining 50 per cent of the shares, Kuehne & Nagel is able to realize its intention to further expand the business in Brazil and to fully integrate its activities into the Kuehne & Nagel Group.

"In joining forces it has been possible to achieve the number one position in the Brazilian freight forwarding market," says Klaus Stanschus, Managing Director of Kuehne & Nagel Brazil. "To further improve and broaden our service offering, we will focus on contract logistics activities besides expanding our international freight forwarding business. Being fully linked into Kuehne & Nagel's global logistics network, allows us to optimize processes and to realize synergies. Thus providing the most efficient logistics solutions to our customers locally as well as to those in the South American market."

About Kuehne & Nagel

With more than17.000 employees at 600 locations in 90 countries, the Kuehne & Nagel Group is one of the world 's leading logistics companies. Its strong market position lies in the ocean-, airfreight and contract logistics businesses, with a clear focus on providing IT-based Supply Chain Management Services.

With approximately 350 employees, Kuehne & Nagel in Brazil operates 13 locations.

26/02/02 Tecon Suape, S. A. (TSSA) , the Philippine-based International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) Brazilian unit began operations at the container terminal of the Port of Suape in Pernambuco, Brazil.

For its inaugural operations, TSSA discharged 84 boxes and loaded 214 boxes. The first vessel operating the 3,800 TEU-capacity CAP San Nicolas arrived from Miami, Florida.

The Suape terminal has an annual capacity of 600,000 TEUs. It has a 29-hectare surface area with two berthing positions. Quay length is 660 meters with a depth alongside of 15.5 meters. The terminal has access to the Suape-owned railway.

TSSA equipped the terminal with two Krupp quay cranes, two Paceco rubber-tired gantries, three Fantuzzi Reggiane reach stackers, a Yale forklift and two Fantuzzi Reggiane side lifters.

Appointed as chief executive officer of TSSA is Fernando Tadeu de Castro Mota. Jorge A. Cano, ICTSI Ltd. senior vice president, is in charge of projects and business development in the Americas, including TSSA.

ICTSI won last June 2001 the 30-year concession to manage and operate the Suape container terminal. Upon takeover, TSSA and ICTSI Ltd. quickly invested USD10 million in civil works and equipment to get the terminal ready for operations.

Suape is an industrial and port complex in the northeastern tip of Brazil in the province of Pernambuco. Situated at the convergence of the main commercial routes of long-distance shipping, it links the East Coast of South America with the other continents, as well as coastal traffic linking the Southern region with the North and Northeast of Brazil. More than 45 companies are currently operating within the complex which aim to became a Hub Port for the East Coast of South América.

The Brazilian government forecasts long-term growth in terms of container traffic in the country for the next five years at annual rates of between six and nine percent for imports and exports, respectively. This will boost container movement from 2.35 million TEUs in 2000 to around 3.5 million TEUs in 2005.

Tecon Suape Sociedade Anônima - Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Tel: (5581) 3326-7575 - Fax: (5581) 3326-4450 - Email: comercial@teconsuape.com

22/02/02 INTTRA announced the incorporation of United Arab Shipping Company as investor and Deutsche Afrika-Linien GmbH & Co to join its global logistics network - The Web-based portal extends its reach to more than 42% of the world container capacity.

After having announced last November 2.001 United Arab Shipping Company about their decition to Joins INTTRA http://www.inttra.com as its portal for the management of ocean-going container shipping; Middle East's largest carrier and INTTRA, the leading provider of B2B ocean freight services, announced that United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), the national line of the Arabian Gulf states has joined the growing list of investors that have entered into a long term financial commitment to this fast growing portal.

United Arab Shipping Company is the twelfth carrier to join INTTRA's network joining other investors, including CMA-CGM, Hamburg Süd, Hapag-Lloyd, Kuehne & Nagel International AG, Maersk Sealand, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., and P&O Nedlloyd.

UASC is the largest ocean carrier for dry cargo to the Middle East, offering more services to the Arabian Gulf / Red Sea regions from the world-wide trading areas than any other single shipping line. The amount of UASC's investment in INTTRA is undisclosed.

Abdulla Mady Al-Mady, President and Chief Executive Officer of UASC said, "Believing that INTTRA offers the premier portal for containerized ocean transportation, we joined its network a few months ago to provide our customers with a view of both regional and global shipments from one portal. After experiencing INTTRA's operating principles that ensure data security and confidentiality, and after seeing how INTTRA's functionality creates efficiencies for both carriers and shippers, we decided to take the next step and make a financial commitment to INTTRA."

We are proud to join other leading global carriers and logistics providers with this investment, and endorse INTTRA as the only industry-backed portal that facilitates global visibility, standardized communications, and improved responsiveness for ocean-going containers."

INTTRA's Web-based portal enables shippers, freight forwarders, third party logistics providers, brokers, importers and industry portals to manage the booking and tracking of cargo across multiple shipping lines in a single integrated process.

INTTRA now has more than 750 registered companies and 2,200 registered users in more than 50 countries around the world. INTTRA has managed more than 82,000 bookings and 1.2 million container events.

Only few days before, DAL Deutsche Afrika-Linien GmbH & Co. also selected INTTRA to join its global logistics network. Through this incorporation INTTRA expands European-African trade lines.

DAL, a member of the Rantzau group boasts more than a century of shipping experience with regular liner services from Europe to Southern Africa, West Africa, and the Islands of the Indian Ocean / East Africa. The addition of DAL enhances INTTRA's coverage of the European-African trades, and extends its reach to more than 42% of the world container capacity.

20/02/02 British Airways announced a major package of measures designed to return the airline to profitability.£650 million of annualised cost savings - 5,800 further job losses

British Airways chief executive Rod Eddington said: "We started this review with one clear objective in mind - to turn this company around. We will remain true to our heritage of being a full service network carrier committed to customer service excellence and world class products. But we must transform British Airways into a simpler, leaner, more focused airline so we can thrive and prosper in an increasingly competitive market."

The conclusions of the review signal a significant change to the size of British Airways as it takes further steps to address its cost base and sets the company on course to achieve a 10 per cent operating margin. This will be supported by an annualised cost saving of £650 million achieved by March 2004, with £450 million of this secured by the end of the first year (2002 - 2003).

There will be a further 5,800 job losses over the next two years, in addition to 7,200 announced in September 2001. In total, this amounts to a manpower reduction of 13,000 or 23 per cent of the airline's workforce of 56,700 in August 2001. Head office and support staff will reduce by more than a third (36 per cent). The company wants to achieve the manpower reduction by voluntary means and will work with the trade unions to achieve the target.

The airline will cut its global distribution costs to generate £100 million of savings, including reducing payments to travel agents in the UK for short haul bookings. This is also being introduced in June 2002 and will result in British Airways' lowest fares being available on the internet.

From summer 1999 to summer 2003, the airline's overall capacity reduction will total 21 per cent.

The airline also plans to cut a further 10 routes - five long haul and five short haul - as part of the overall reduction in capacity and will announce the details of the route cuts once consultations have been completed.

Mr Eddington said: "Simplification is key to removing cost from the business. These fleet moves mean our operations at Gatwick will be flown by just two aircraft types - Boeing 737s for short haul and Boeing 777s for long haul.

Two Boeing 777 aircraft are being sold and will exit the British Airways fleet in Spring 2002. The company will seek to sell a further five aircraft from its long haul Boeing fleet.

The airline announced that - as part of the strategy - further routes will transfer from Gatwick to Heathrow by summer 2002 - INCLUDING Buenos Aires. By summer 2003, Gatwick capacity will have reduced by a total of 60 per cent, since summer 1999.

According Company local info, British Airways will continuous with three weekly direct flights (Tuesday-Friday and Sunday) in the route between Buenos Aires and London where airport to be used will be Heathrow.

19/02/02 LauritzenCool, Eastwind Transport and Armada Shipping announce the formation of ReeferShip Ltd., a new marketing company that will identify, pursue, and develop business for refrigerated ships controlled by ECo Shipping, Arctic Reefers, and Armada Shipping.

ReeferShip Ltd. is owned equally by its three principals. The company's combined fleet stands at more than 50 vessels with total capacity of about 20 million cubic feet. Vessels in the fleet range in size from 185,000 to 668,000 cbft.

         

Arctic Reefers and ECo Shipping will be kept intact in their present form as pools for large and handy-size refrigerated vessels, respectively.

The ReeferShip operation will aim at maximizing returns to the owners of ships operated by the new joint operation. To help achieve this objective, Eastwind is contributing its reefer vessels of 400,000 cbft and above to Arctic, LauritzenCool is placing its handy-size tonnage under Eco's management, and Armada is through a joint venture with Arctic placing tonnage in both the Arctic and ECo systems.

In addition, Eastwind has taken a substantial shareholding in Arctic, while LauritzenCool has increased its ownership interest in ECo. Finally, ReeferShip vessels from all three participating fleets will be used whenever possible to fill the tonnage requirements of Eastwind Transport and LauritzenCool.

ReeferShip will operate out of Copenhagen and New York. Armada's reefer team will relocate to Copenhagen. ReeferShip will also have access to all of Eastwind's and LauritzenCool's marketing and agency offices worldwide.

13/02/02 Lan Chile Cargo announced the inaguration in Santiago Airport of TEISA - International Export Terminal , a new export cargo facilities in association with the Ultramar group.

LanChile Cargo y el Grupo Ultramar han desarrollado una de las más modernas infraestructuras en Sudamérica para el manipuleo de cargas, brindando protección y preservando cargas perecederas a ser exportadas por vía aérea.

LanChile Cargo and Ultramar Group have developed one of the most modern infrastructures in South America to handle cargo, protecting and preserving perishable cargo goods to be exported by air.

With 9.000 m2, TEISA's facilities, located at Arturo Merino Benitez Airport in Santiago de Chile, are the largest of their kind. Were shown to the media and to 300 guests invited to the ceremony.

Government authorities like Mr. Jorge Rodríguez Grossi, Secretary of Economy and Energy and Mr. Jorge Awad, Lan Chile's Chairman of the Board, who highlighted the important role of air transportation for our country.Mr. Awad said "Chile is an exporter country and after the copper and cellulose, the air transportation is the third most important exported product with more than US$ 1000 millions annualy"

The US$3 millions invested in TEISA are reflected in the modern facilities of the Terminal: two controled atmosphere rooms (-5 °C) for cargo receiving, totalling 5000 m2, three cold storage rooms with temperature control between 0 and -18 °C and two dry cargo receiving areas of 1000 m2. "This allows us to have no interruptions on the cold chain under no circumstances" said TEISA's General Manager, Alvaro Faret.

This International Export Terminal "it is a reallity that places us at the world commerce forefront"- Awad said-, because the group of 160 persons involved in this service have the comittment of expedited service, team work, safety and customer service. Therefore "we expect that the best of our land and the freshest of our ocean would be consumed worlwide" the Chairman of our company said.

LanChile created its new LanChile Cargo division offering airport-to-airport, door-to-door, courier and logistics services in more than 20 countries, focussing particularly on Latin America.

12/02/02 CARGOLUX AIRLINES has been awarded Fourth Consecutive Year Award "Best All Cargo Airline 2.002"

Readers of the British trade magazine Air Cargo News have voted Cargolux Airlines "Best All Cargo Airline 2002". Winning this prestigious award for the fourth time in a row underlines the appreciation of Cargolux's services among the international forwarding community.

Mr. Chris Fahy, European Vice President Danzas AEI, presented the award to Ulrich Ogiermann, Cargolux Sr. Vice President Sales, Marketing & Ground Services, during a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 26 January. 1000 senior representatives of the international air cargo business were invited.

"This award is given to us by international forwarders and shippers, who have voted for Cargolux," says Ulrich Ogiermann. "Therefore, it is especially valuable to us. Winning it for the fourth year in a row makes us very proud. It is also a great motivation for our employees who have achieved this with their work." Other finalists included Polar Air and Martinair.

Cargolux Airlines has recently appointed Mr. Sebastiaan Jurriaan Scholte as its Regional Manager South America (Area IV Management)

In Argentina:

CARGOLUX AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL S.A.

Galería Jardín - Calle Florida 537/22nd Floor 1005 Buenos Aires - Argentina

Phone: 54 11 4328 2788

Fax: 54 11 4328 3840

E-mail: bue@cargolux.com

11/02/02 Lufthansa awarded highest marks on safety and on the Internet

Business travellers award highest marks to Lufthansa on three counts.

Readers of the prestigious Business Traveller Deutschland magazine have voted Lufthansa the safest airline in 2001.

In both categories - national / European and international flights - Lufthansa came out best in the magazine poll. The magazine readers also awarded top marks to the airline's website (www.lufthansa.com) as the best business travel portal.

The Business Traveller Awards were presented at the Arabella Sheraton Hotel in Frankfurt/Main.

The magazine survey sounding the views of 3,000 readers on a cluster of companies in the tourist business was conducted by an independent market research institute. Lufthansa also landed the "safest airline" award in the magazine poll last year.

In January, the "Manager Magazin" business periodical chose Lufthansa as the preeminent German company in the transport and tourist industry. The accolade endorsing the airline's excellent image came from 2,500 selected jurors adjudicating in the poll.

08/02/02 Hong Kong International Airport - HKIA - has been named Cargo Airport of the Year - 2002

London-based Air Cargo News, a leading international air cargo trade publication has presented its Cargo Airline of the Year awards over the past 19 years, but this is the first year it has honoured a Cargo Airport of the Year.

HKIA won, against tough competition from airports around the world, including Changi, Dubai, Frankfurt and Paris, said Mr Ray Crane, the publisher of Air Cargo News. "However, our panel of judges were unanimous in choosing Hong Kong for their commitment to developing their cargo product, including multi-modal connections with the Chinese mainland," he said.

Each airport considered for the award was appraised according to improvements, innovations, special features and services that made the airport more attractive to air cargo customers. Although HKIA has been the world's busiest airport for international air cargo since 1996, finalists were not chosen on size or tonnage but on their commitment to expanding and improving their services for the benefit of the customers.

"It's a great honor to be selected the inaugural Cargo Airport of the Year" AA Chief Executive Officer Dr David J Pang said. "HKIA could not have achieved this recognition without the commitment and cooperation of our business partners - airlines and integrators, cargo terminal operators, ramp handlers, marine cargo terminal operator, the freight forwarding industry and relevant government departments - and their innovation in advancing integrated air cargo services in the region.

In 2001, HKIA handled 33 million passengers, 2.08 million tonnes of air cargo and 196,800 flight movements. There are two main cargo terminal operators, HACTL and AAT, with a combined capacity of 3 million tonnes. HACTL's SuperTerminal 1 is the world's largest cargo handling facility, accounting for some 80 per cent of throughput at HKIA.

Hong Kong Tradeport, the airport's first on-site dedicated logistics management centre, is under construction and due to open in 2003.

Air cargo handling systems are integrated with the Customs & Excise Department's Air Cargo Clearance System (ACCS), enabling cargo information to be transmitted three hours before shipment arrival.

A generous incentive scheme offering rebates on landing and parking charges for carriers introducing new routes has been in effect since January 2001. Carriers get a 50 per cent rebate in the first year, and 25 per cent in the second.

To compliment multi-model services, one-stop truck services operate between HKIA and Guangzhou Airport, Shenzhen and the manufacturing city of Dongguan. Tender has been invited for the design, development and operation of a dedicated express cargo centre at the airport.

05/02/02 KALMAR - the worldwide Ports - Terminals and Intermodal equipment manufacturer offer completely factory reconditioned preowned quality equipment with warranty.

Kalmar is a true specialist - both in container and industrial handling applications. Also provides a complete line of services: preventive maintenance, rental, financing, logistics advice, complete fleet management, not to mention on line spare parts.

In their database of preowned equipment you will of course find the Kalmar and Ottawa brands - but also a wide range of other makes and machines types.

Kalmar offer equipment that is completely factory reconditioned with a warranty, or machines that are function tested with a limited warranty. Counting on with an extensive rental fleet with everything from forklift trucks to reachstackers available for immediate delivery. Also offer short-term rentals.

Kalmar arrange for shipping of machines and equipment throughout the world. After purchased a preowned machine, Kalmar will make sure it gets delivered safely to its final destination. Most machine transports are made by boat and Kalmar work closely with freight companies that are experienced in shipping heavy machinery.

The majority of machines are delivered with special preowned Kalmar warranty. You only get machines with Kalmar factory replacement spare parts in the refurbishment process. This is to ensure reliability and troublefree operation of the equipment.

Kalmar service organization is ready to maintain equipment to ensure continues and reliable operation of your investment.

For more information:

Leif B. Johansson - Global Manager - Preowned Equipment

Phone: +46 (0)372 260 00 Fax: +46 (0)372 264 37

E-mail:Leif.B.Johansson@kalmarind.com

Forklift trucks - Reachstackers - Sideloaders - StraddleCarrier - Terminal tractors - RTG Cranes

Representative in Argentina:

Equipos y Servicios Para Terminales y Puertos SRL Av. De los Constituyentes 3601 (1431) Cap. Federal - Argentina

Phone: +54-11-45742500 Fax: +54-11-45731501

Contact Mr. Marcelo H. Massa

04/02/02 SWITZERLAND'S NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE - The new inter-continental airline will fly under the trade mark SWISS as from next March 31.

At an international press conference, Crossair CEO André Dosé outlined the brand strategy under which the new airline will enter the market. The name reflects the multi-cultural, cosmopolitan character and the typical Swiss characteristics of quality.

With the introduction of the Summer timetable on March 31, SWISS will take flight.

André Dosé, Chief Executive Officer of Crossair and of the new airline, said that there were two decisive factors in the choice of name. "The new airline is a unique instance in Swiss post-war history, of a collective alliance of politics, industry and the people of Switzerland. It will be the qualities, which have made our country great, on which we are banking in the building up of our new airline". These are reliability, friendliness, safety, elegance and perfect service characterised by inovation, coupled with a multi-cultural cosmopolitan attitude.

Mr. Dosé is convinced, "that the integration of Crossair and Swissair employees in the new project can be successfully accomplished." This is just the first step, the Crossair CEO stressed, which will be followed by another important milestone in March.

The new brand concept and its visual appearance were presented by André Dosé, the Canadian Creative Director, Tyler Brûlé and Arjen Pen, Head of Sales and Marketing for the new airline. Brûlé's agency, Wink Media of London, won the contract in an international competition to create the brand of the new Swiss inter-continental airline.

For the Canadian, resident in London and Switzerland, who has been a Swissair fan for years, it was evident from the start that the new airline should inscribe "Swissness" on its banner. "Swiss quality values were not attributed solely to Crossair and Swissair. They are accepted shorthand for excellence around the world. "It is on these values", said Brûlé, "that we are building what will be the most respected airline in the world".

The change of name of the company from Crossair AG to Swiss Air Lines Ltd. is foreseen for later this year. For legal reasons, the change from Crossair cannot be made until October and the start of the Winter timetable 2002, as it must be authorised at the next General Assembly of the shareholders.

The creation of Switzerland´s new airline has come about through an unprecedented co-operation by the Federal Council, the cantons, industry, banks, private investors and the Swiss people themselves. Within four months, a total of 2.7 billion Swiss francs was raised to found a new airline. Not an easy task, but the good will and spirit shown by all parties involved demonstrated how important an airline is to the nation and that a global flag carrier of scale is an essential instrument to maintain Switzerland´s outstanding international reputation.

Its global route network will provide connections to more than 100 dynamic business and cultural destinations, both within Europe and beyond to other continents.

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