As previously announced, in collaboration with The Big Picture, Erie Art Museum, Erie Arts & Culture, and YMCA, the “Erie Industry” mural was recently installed on the Logistics Plus Skinner Warehouse in Erie, PA. Yesterday a ceremony was held to officially introduce the mural to the community. In case you missed it, the video below has highlights from the event.
It has been another great year, and I would like to thank all of our customers and partners for playing an important role in the growth and success of Logistics Plus. This year, your loyalty and support have helped us to be recognized as: the non-manufacturing Employer of the Year in northwestern PA (by the DevelopErie economic development agency); a top 50 freight brokerage firm (by Transport Topics magazine); and a 2015 Great Supply Chain Partner (by SupplyChainBrain magazine). It has also allowed us to give back to the community through our support of the United Way, the American Heart Association, and many other charitable organizations.
In North America, we continue to negotiate great transportation rates on your behalf, and we expanded our network to include even more reputable freight carriers and agents. With 24 locations across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, we continue to provide best-in-class LTL, truckload, and freight forwarding services. We also opened a new general purpose foreign trade zone (FTZ) warehouse in Erie, PA; and we moved our Dallas/Fort Worth, TX warehouse to a larger facility – also with activated FTZ status.
On the global front, we continue to open new offices in strategic locations such as Bahrain, Egypt, and UAE, giving us over 20 more offices in 16 additional countries around the world. Our international staff continues to do an amazing job handling global shipments and unique project cargo from start-to-finish, and doing the things that other logistics companies either can’t or won’t do. As a licensed customs broker with a fully-staffed global trade compliance department, we are well-suited to help customers with all of their import and export shipping needs in the years to come.
If you worked with Logistics Plus this past year, on behalf of all our employees – thank you for your business! If we haven’t yet worked with you, I welcome the opportunity to do so in 2016. As you’ll see in the video above, we have a diverse mix of talented and caring people here at Logistics Plus – people who are creative, resourceful and willing to work 24/7/365 to help our customers be successful in all aspects of shipping and logistics. That’s how we put the “plus” in Logistics Plus.
Best wishes for a joyous holiday season and a wonderful New Year!
Warm regards,
Jim Berlin
Founder & CEO
Logistics Plus Inc.
www.logisticsplus.com
The Logistics Plus Project Cargo team has published two new videos to the Logistics Plus YouTube Channel.
This most recent time-lapse video showcases the latest move of LPG tanks from China to Brazil. This time the tanks were slightly smaller and didn’t have to be installed directly into the hull. But moving four of them on the same ship and discharging to the floating dock on arrival was still a very tight operation.
This second video shows that when modern equipment is not available, and the budget does not allow to bring it in, Logistics Plus still masters the skill of the old ways and gets the job done safely.
Need help with your project cargo? Let us quote your next project.
The Logistics Plus Belgium office was recently approached by Wärtsilä Oil & Gas Systems AS to help them ship an LNG pump on a skid from Qidong, China to the Navantia shipyard in El Ferrol, northwest Spain. Part of the challenge was that the skid was a whopping 11.8 meters long, 6.4 meters wide and 5.8 meters high, and it weighed close to 42 metric tons. Additionally, the earliest the skid would be available from the Chinese supplier was November 5th, and it absolutely had to deliver to its Spain destination by December 22nd.
To address this logistics dilemma, the Logistics Plus project cargo team, led by Frederik Geirnaert, designed and sourced a routing solution that included the following steps:
This solution not only delivered the skid to Spain on time but also at a cost that was much less expensive than an inducement call to Navantia. To showcase this project cargo solution, Frederick edited and uploaded the following video to the Logistics Plus YouTube Channel. The video is only 46 seconds long to match the spirit of the 46-day move from China to Spain (so you might want to watch it more than once)!
If you have unique, complex, or simply “ugly” project cargo shipping needs, look no further than the experts at Logistics Plus. Project cargo is a core competency for us, and we’ll do what other logistics companies either can’t or won’t do. Send us an email to marketing@logisticsplus.com, give us a call at 866.564.7587, or use our Quick Quote form to get the process started.
Last week Jim Berlin, CEO and owner of Logistics Plus Inc., and Yuriy Ostapyak, director of global operations, both attended the EY Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, CA where the annual EY Entrepreneur of the Year™ awards was presented. Jim and Yuriy both report that the conference was entertaining and inspirational and they brought back a lot of ideas learned and shared with fellow entrepreneurs at the conference.
The conference included many thoughtful and insightful presentations from well-known celebrities such as Ron Howard, Seth, Myers, Emmitt Smith, Jimmy Johnson, and David Robinson, as well as accomplished entrepreneurs such as Tony Hsieh (CEO for Zappos) and Patricia Woertz (CEO for Archer Daniels Midland Company).
As a very entrepreneurial company in its own right, Logistics Plus would like to congratulate Mr. David Hung, CEO, and founder of Medivation, one of biotech’s greatest success stories, for taking home the “2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year” award. We’d also like to congratulate the many regional winners and finalists for their extraordinary achievements.
You can click here to see more highlights from the show, or watch the YouTube video below.
http://youtu.be/0IkpRe5xo8A?list=PL3ZOd0y-i_r4rFpe49WyNrvUpRXtBcFrf
Of course, Jim Berlin is no stranger to the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards having won an award himself back in 2004 for the Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Region. Jim is also a lifetime member of the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame, a truly well-earned distinction (see image below, which can be found on the www.ey.com website).
