May 14th to 16th the Antwerp break Bulk shipping conference
21 June 2011
For 3 days in the middle of May the world of conventional and specialist shippers, ship owners and project forwarders came together in the Antwerp Expo to discuss the developments in the industry, the way forward and trends in the market place.
Paul Rooksby Director of AIM Supply Chain Management Ltd, attended the conference as part of the stand operated by the WPG (World Project Group) of which AIM is the exclusive UK member."The stand was there to generate international interest in our specialist services and to attract new members to the group" said Paul, "it was very successful we had lots of visitors to our stand many of whom were interested in becoming involved in our project forwarding group. It was also a good time to catch up on developments in the business especially with the developments of the specialist ship owners and their new tonnage and services." Like true forwarders it was also a good time to catch up with old friends and acquaintances and have a good chat over a beer or two.
AIM Supply Chain Management is a specialist project forwarder based a few miles from the port of Felixstowe and works throughout the UK and Ireland. Through their membership of the WPG an independent group of like minded project forwarders we have the ability to carefully manage our clients cargoes from door to door wherever that may be.
We have some fascinating projects on the go, some involving huge tonnages and abnormal loads and some very small but requiring equal care and attention to every detail. 2 recent examples of the extremes were the shipment from the UK by road to Antwerp, the loading onto a conventional vessel, shipping to Vietnam, offloading "in the roads" to barges and delivering up river to the clients premises of 19 abnormal loads totalling 814 freight tons.
Compare this to an emergency call from a European TV broadcaster, to our US partners in the WPG. The TV system was all set up in the Caribbean to show live coverage of a test match, only for the technicians to discover that their equipment was all PAL system and the local equipment they had to connect up to was the US - NTSC system.
The only place they could get a magic box of electronics to convert the signals for the system to work was made by a specialist company in Manchester England. At short notice AIM had to make contact make sure the equipment was available, send a motorcycle courier to collect the small package and deliver it immediately to our airfreight agents at East Midlands airport where the cargo was whisked off to Miami and then on to Jamaica for the TV company to collect.
The box of electronics was delivered on the same day and the broadcast went ahead as planned, not quite a typical week but gives a flavour of the range of work AIM Supply Chain Management is involved in.
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