Dear Readers,
It is Sunday the 16th of February and my calendar tells me that it is my 62nd birthday and the day when we publish our newsletter — which as you know is now once a month.
It’s been a fantastic month since our latest publication. I travelled from Santiago to Sydney and onward to Bangkok and Bali. In Bali, I attended the Global Network meeting for CLC Projects and Cross Ocean with 120+ visitors from around the world.
The only hiccup during the schedule (and a scary one at that) was that due to a wrong entry visa, I got acquainted with the Indonesian immigration authorities. Apparently for them bringing in more business or welcoming people to enter and spend money are not high priorities, they seem to prefer creating unnecessary problems for visitors who unintentionally enter on a wrong type of visa.
Being interrogated for 6-8 hours and passports held at ransom for several days made me think that we had arrived in the wrong country. For countries that create an environment hostile to event hosting, the losses will be significant—especially for local people whose jobs depend largely on tourism, particularly in a place like Bali. The situation was sorted ultimately, if you know what I mean. Time is money for most normal people in the world but not so for some local government employees. So that was an experience I could have done without, I dare say that of the 125 people we had attending few if any would ever choose Bali for a conference event in the future. Still, the event turned out to be a grand success and it was indeed a great experience despite the “highway robbery” incident.
I understood from the 5 star resort venue that they would be taking this matter up with the Bali Hotels Association because more problems have been seen in this field. Adding to that, with the new Indonesian government slashing all budgets for all departments by 50%, it makes some of them prone to “go hunting for mistakes and revenue elsewhere” so to speak…
PCW Yearbook 2024
Today, the main subject is that we are publishing our 2024 Yearbook. With some 300 pages, it is a must read with clickable interviews, wise observations via the editorials of each 2024 issue, and lots of intelligence for the shipping manager, shipper, or anyone just interested in logistics.
We also have great interviews in this issue, and here I point them out to you:
1. United Heavy Lift, a major MPP shipowner headquartered in Hamburg, tells their story about what they can do on a worldwide basis.
2. Mareneco in Miami is a supplier of services to control and monitor emissions. A friend of mine with a past in CMA CGM is now the regional manager, and it is quite interesting in what they can help you with compliance-wise.
3. IA Ports in Brazil is a new organisation gathering ports worldwide in their association, so perhaps an important group to join if you are into ports and shipping. Nowadays, ports play a big role also politically
4. Tiel Logistics in the Netherlands, a versatile freight forwarder, strong in certain areas and well worth getting to know.
This issue we will skip the trade intelligence and shipping news. With our Yearbook and 4 great interviews, I feel you will have enough on your plate. We will, however, provide you with our wise words of the week.
Don’t forget to download our APP where you can read, watch or listen to our interviews for free.
Until next month (the middle of March) when I shall be back to you with fresh interviews, updates on the recent Breakbulk Middle East, and some information about my next plans for traveling by cargo vessel…
Yours sincerely,
With best regards,
Bo H. Drewsen
bo.drewsen@projectcargo-weekly.com
United Heavy Lift – Interview
Mareneco Group – Interview
IAPorts – Interview
Tiel Logistics – Interview
Interview with
Mr. Aron Nobel
Project Forwarder & Sales Manager
First of all Aron, could you elaborate for our readers about the history of TIEL Logistics and the origin of the name?
Tiel Logistics was established in 2000 and started with our own (exceptional) trucks for only road transportation and a few extra services. After a couple of years, the owner switched to being a project forwarder and sold the trucks. Until now, we are still focusing on moving project cargo all over the world. The company used to be L.C. Van Tiel Logistics when Leonard was still the owner (the company name was exactly the name of the owner). After his retirement, we called it Tiel Logistics as we thought this was more accommodating for our customers.
