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Pioneer in Dwc's Logistics District Moves Speedily COMMERCIAL VEHICLES HUAWEI RAIL ICT SOLUTIONS MILAHA Road to growth Enabling the Rail Sector Powering on CONNECTING TRADE PROFESSIONALS WITH INDUSTRY INTELLIGENCE MAY 2015 PIONEER IN DWC’S LOGISTICS DISTRICT MOVES SPEEDILY ALONG 2 | Logistics News ME | May 2015 8 | NEWS SCAN: Roundup of Regional & International News Contents 14 | EPICOR EDICTS: Six Challenges that could break the Supply Chain 20 |RSA LOGISTICS : 3PL’s meteoric rise to the top Features 25 | COMMERCIAL VEHICLES: In high gear in the Middle East 20 36 | KANOO MACHINERY: Showcasing a new family of forklifts 40 48| HUAWEI RAIL SOLUTIONS: 40 |LLOYD’S OF On Track with Rail LONDON: ICT Solutions Top Global Reinsurer sets shop in Dubai 50| MILAHA MARITIME & 42 | INSIDER LOGISTICS: INTELLIGENCE: Qatar’s formidable Red alert for Red 3PL provider on a Ocean Strategy 54|SEAIR 44 | EULER LOGISTICS : HERMES : Upstart DWC LSP Trade Credit Insur- harbours growth ance industry in for ambitions rich pickings 56| 47 | EMIRATES PROFESSIONAL SKYCARGO: PERSPECTIVES: Facilitating Transitioning from Philippines exports good to great 47 Logistics News ME | May 2015 | 3 RubAlKhali_English_273x406_DPS_Final.pdf 1 4/27/15 10:20 AM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K It is, without doubt, one of the harshest environments on earth: the Empty Quarter in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – the largest and most barren sand www.emptyquarter.volvoce.com desert in the world, spreading itself over four Arab nations and covering 650,000 km2 which is comparable in size to France. Temperatures range from 50° to -1°C in the course of a single day and the sand and dust are relentless. The nearest city is 1000 kilometres away. So the construction Watch video of the road cutting through the desert, linking Saudi Arabia to the Sultanate of Oman, called for an extraordinary solution. The response: a fleet of 95 Volvo machines was assembled. Together, they shifted over 130 million m3 of sand just to build the bridge of the road – an extraordinary feat in such harsh conditions, yet the quality and power of Volvo engineering was up to the challenge. The difficulties created by the remote isolation of the worksite were answered with excellent customer support from FAMCO, the authorised Volvo dealer in Saudi Arabia, which included the organisation of mobile 24/7 service workshops that moved forward with the construction operation. Discover a new way. Exclusive distributor of Volvo Construction Equipment in the UAE and Saudi Arabia Al-Futtaim Auto & Machinery Co. LLC United Arab Emirates: 800 32626 Saudi Arabia: 800 1244414 e-mail: [email protected] www.al-futtaim.com www.famcosaudi.com www.famcouae.com 4 | Logistics News ME | May 2015 RubAlKhali_English_273x406_DPS_Final.pdf 1 4/27/15 10:20 AM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K It is, without doubt, one of the harshest environments on earth: the Empty Quarter in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – the largest and most barren sand www.emptyquarter.volvoce.com desert in the world, spreading itself over four Arab nations and covering 650,000 km2 which is comparable in size to France. Temperatures range from 50° to -1°C in the course of a single day and the sand and dust are relentless. The nearest city is 1000 kilometres away. So the construction Watch video of the road cutting through the desert, linking Saudi Arabia to the Sultanate of Oman, called for an extraordinary solution. The response: a fleet of 95 Volvo machines was assembled. Together, they shifted over 130 million m3 of sand just to build the bridge of the road – an extraordinary feat in such harsh conditions, yet the quality and power of Volvo engineering was up to the challenge. The difficulties created by the remote isolation of the worksite were answered with excellent customer support from FAMCO, the authorised Volvo dealer in Saudi Arabia, which included the organisation of mobile 24/7 service workshops that moved forward with the construction operation. Discover a new way. Exclusive distributor of Volvo Construction Equipment in the UAE and Saudi Arabia Al-Futtaim Auto & Machinery Co. LLC United Arab Emirates: 800 32626 Saudi Arabia: 800 1244414 e-mail: [email protected] www.al-futtaim.com www.famcosaudi.com www.famcouae.com Logistics News ME | May 2015 | 5 Editor’s Note HOT ON THE LOGISTICS TRAIL The scorching summer is now well and truly on hand in the Mid- time & Logistics’ Paul Virgo and France-based Huawei Rail Solutions’ Ra- dle East. As is indicative from the past, the sweltering heat is clear- bii Ouadi for their take in their respective areas of operations and their ly something that experienced natives and expatriates across the involvement in the region’s transportation scenario. region take in stride. In this edition we have added a new fixture, ‘Last Page-In First Person’ On the economic front, even as temperatures continue to soar, where we invite our guest writer to contribute to this page for his or her there seems to be no abatement in the level and pace of industrial narrative, observations, professional or personal perspectives on any activities in the region and work continues unimpeded. A random, subject of interest related to supply chain & logistics. For this issue I am cursory glance at such general, ready indicators pleased to welcome Katharina Albert, Managing Di- as the traffic, the news media, the movement of rector of Dubai-based Kat Logics - Simulation Solu- freight containers in and out of ports, cargo tions for her first-person perspectives on optimisation movement at the airports and activities at and material simulation. shopping centres provide empirical evidence of Our bouquet of regular and ad-hoc news stories, in- undiminished, even frenzied, ongoings. terviews, articles, features, guest contributions and Things look good and the logistics sector is commentaries and Op-Eds from industry bigwigs preparing for the long summer haul as we also rounds up our content in this issue. found out in informal conversations with our Separately, I am also privileged and honoured to in- peers in the business. troduce Giorgios Retsinas, our newly appointed Edito- Our Cover Story for this May 2015 issue is rial Director, who will oversee editorial operations for RSA Logistics, the 3PL behemoth and the first business publications at the BNC Group. Retsinas, a tenant to go operational in Dubai World Cen- media professional with considerable experience, tral’s Logistics District. In a short span of eight comes with good professional credentials and a career years since its inception, RSA Logistics has had with leading blue chip publishers in his native USA a meteoric rise, becoming one of the leading and in the Middle East. His inclusion, insights and ex- players in the trade. perience will no doubt be an asset to us! On another front, to get an insider’s ‘insights’ It is my hope you will enjoy reading this edition. We into the nature and quality of services provided are always keen and happy to hear from you so keep by RSA Logistics, we also spoke exclusively to a client Harshal those comments and observations coming. Bouquets and brickbats Tidke, Senior Project Manager, Prime Power Strategic Accounts, equally welcome. Cummins ME who spoke about the customer-LSP partnership be- tween the two. The ubiquitous commercial vehicles, trundling the vast net- work of highways, roads and arteries across the region, particular- Malcolm Dias ly the Middle East, is the subject of this issue’s Focus Feature. Editor Elsewhere, we have also spoke exclusively to Qatar’s Milaha Mari- [email protected] Editor Group Sales Manager Malcolm Dias Jayant Dey [email protected] [email protected] For all commercial enquiries related to Logistics News Middle East contact Managing Director Art Director [email protected] Walid Zok Rana Husam Shiblaq [email protected] [email protected] T +971 50 1971200 Director Marketing All rights reserved © 2014. Rabih Najm Mark Anthony Monzon Opinions expressed are solely those of the contributors. [email protected] [email protected] Logistics News Middle East and all subsidiary publica- tions in the MENA region are officially licensed exclusively Director CONTRIBUTORS to BNC Publishing in the MENA region by Logistics News Middle East. Wissam Younane No part of this magazine may be reproduced or trans- [email protected] Mark Millar, Joy Thattil, Prakash PK Menon mitted in any form or by any means without written permission of the publisher. Group Publishing Director Images used in Logistics News Middle East are cred- Diarmuid O'Malley SUBSCRIBE ited when necessary. Attributed use of copyrighted [email protected] images with permission. All images not credited [email protected] otherwise Shutterstock. Editorial Director PO Box 502511 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Giorgios Retsinas P +971 4 4200 506 | F +971 4 4200 196 Printed by Raidy Emirates Printing Group LLC www.raidy.com 6 | Logistics News ME | May 2015 High density storage achieved with Schaefer Orbiter System. Many logistics managers are unaware of the potential optimisation and streamlining of homogenous goods storage that modern warehouse systems can offer. The Schaefer Orbiter System allows you to compress your storage and speed up operations with storage and retrieval speed at 1m/second. Contact us today, we can show you how you can achieve effective storage needs. SSI Schaefer Systems International DWC LLC P: +971/4/8048 100 · [email protected] · www.ssi-schaefer.com 203 X 273_5mm.indd 2 19/1/2015 4:57:49 PM NEWS Agility’s GCC Services Dubai Trade Receives ISO 9001 CCB for trade and logistics Certification community Agility’s GCC Services subsidiary in Basra, Iraq has received the ISO 9001 Dubai Trade has launched certification, making it the first inte- the Certified Customs grated remote site services company to Broker Programme be certified in this Southern Iraqi city.
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