Newsletter of the TRANSNATUR group ews Nº 25 May 2015 EDITORIAL CHALLENGES GO ON … I am happy to say that 2014 was a good year for our Company as far as volume of shipments and turnover is concerned. This positive tendency is still observed in this first part of the year and it all seems to indicate that such trend will consolidate throughout 2015. The Transnatur Management is still setting goals and objectives for this year which is only beginning. The road importation increase is a fact due to the consumption recovery in our country, which together with the increasing tendency of road exportation makes it possible for us to tackle the months to come with optimism. We are still putting a lot of resources and interest in the sea and air freight. Our Company has been very successful in these areas since the beginning of the nineties when we officially started this activity. During these 25 years of sea and air freight activity we have achieved the goals we set at the beginning and which, originally, were only aiming at positioning ourselves in the market as a reference Logistics Operator in the sea and air sectors. Nowadays our challenge is to consolidate ourselves in this position by offering partial and full loads from any point of origin and to any point of destination in the world. I have no doubt that we will reach such goal thanks to the excellent professional human resources team we have at Transnatur. Mr Javier Pagés Managing Director of the Transnatur Group BEGINNING OF COLLABORATION BBL TRANSPORT At the end of September, Transnatur started collaborating FRANCE with BBL Transport, a new agent in France for the Lyon and Marseille areas. We have very recently widen the scope of collaboration to the Paris and Lille areas. In the photo, our managing Director, Mr Javier Pagés signing the agreement with the Managing Director for BBL Transport, Mr Patrick Mazaud DIMOTRANS We have also started collaborating with an old Agent of ours, Dimotrans, which will be covering the Strasbourg area. WE HAVE BEEN VISITED: September 2014 – NUNO FERREIRA – Brazil September 2014 – AGILITY – Switzerland Visit of Ms Denise Alves and José Romao to strengthen Sales visits to various Key Accounts. the relationship we have with our agent in Brazil. October 2014 – MAINFREIGHT – United States Presentation of the new Sales Manager, Mr Peter Dyeremose. October 2014 – EUROPA WORLDWIDE LOGISTICS – Great Britain Operations restructure to improve services. October & November 2014 – MILITZER & MÜNCH – Morocco Signature of new agreements and operations restructure. BCN WE HAVE VISITED: September 2014 – EXPOFREIGHT – India October 2014 – ALOG – Bulgaria th Courtesy visit of Mr Rupesh. 20 Anniversary celebration of the foundation of the Firm Alog, our Agent in Bulgaria. NEWS: TRANSNATUR MADRID: TRANSNATUR ZARAGOZA: We are happy to announce that last September, our Madrid Our office in Zaragoza took part in the European project Office opened a new warehouse with 1.176m2 to provide Garantía Joven Aragón (Eduacational project to guarantee a logistics services. future for the younsters in Aragon) . In the photograhp, our colleague Víctor Artero, Road Traffic Manager of Zaragoza, picking up the award. TRANSNATUR VALENCIA: Last October, Transnatur Valencia took care of the vehicles of the Honda LCR team of MotoGP and stored and parked them from the end of the race of the Grand Prix at Alcañiz (Aragon) to the race at Cheste (Valencia). For a whole month we were entrusted with the custody of their vehicles / motorbikes. We have renewed the collaboration agreement for next year with Lucio Cecchinello, owner of the Team. We took the opportunity to introduce Transnatur to the MotoGP Yamaha Team of Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo and we have been in negociations with their coordinator, Gabriele Chinetti, who will hopefully confirm to us a future collaboration. CANTON IMPORT & EXPORT FAIR – Guangzhou - CHINA Last October, and for the first time, TRANSNATUR had the opportunity to attend the Canton Import & Export Fair in China as exhibitors in collaboration with our Chinese agent, KORMAN. The Transnatur offices that had physical presence at the Fair were Barcelona (Ms Arantxa Perà), Valencia (Mr Juan Carlos Menéndez) and Bilbao (Mr Mikel Díaz). During the Fair we had the opportunity to assist The fair gathers more than 20.000 exhibitors, 48 and act as consultants for many of our current delegations for the foreign trade, factories, customers, as well as provide logistics solutions Institutions of scientific investigation, companies to potential clients. Some of the customers who who invest partially abroad, companies who invest visited our stand: Abanicos Aparisi, Santiago totally abroad, private companies, etc. Pons, Actua Deco, Chinaventrading, Party Fiesta …. amongst many others. NEW RECRUITS: In Barcelona: Carlos Ferriz (Warehouse); José Luis Our Managing Director of Transnatur Fernández (Customs Dpt); Sergi Llorens (Sea&Air Norte, Mr Eduardo Lopetegui took Coordination); Gaspar Coll (Sales Dpt): Laura Preotu part in the half-marathon of (Road-traffic Dpt) Donibane (St Jean de Luz – TRANSNATUR WITH THE SPORT: Hondarribi 21,10km). His time: 1hr 33 mins 13 seg. His wife Junkal Padel tournament performed by greets him at the arrival line. our colleagues from Transnatur Barcelona. José Manuel Collado from the Customs Dpt in Valencia took part in the ICAN GANDIA race which is equivalent to the Ion Areitio, Ironman Race (3,8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42 km second down the running); the time performed: world ranking list in his Swim: 1:13:49 speciality, trial Cycle: 5:56:09 bicycle. Run: 4:37:28 Total: 11:57:03 MISCELLANEOUS: Transportes De La Fuente, container Photo of the team of truck drivers at Transnatur Irún, haulier, collaborator key elements for the deveolpment of the Office. of Transnatur. The support provided to Transnatur by their fleet of trucks and their team of drivers grants us an exceptional service to customers for delivery and collection of containers. PHOTOS: Transnatur Alicante from the air. ANNIVERSARIES 2014: (Special Mention): 10 years: Agustín López (Branch Manager, ZAG); Transnatur at the Bernabeu (Real Madrid football stadium) Angels Ariño or the translation, . F ona el c ansnatur Bar r www.transnatur.com Published by T.