Panalpina Launches Ocean Freight Services

Logistics Insight Asia - Industry News, 26/2/2010

Panalpina offers two less than container load (LCL) services to its ocean freight customers. The company's guaranteed LCL service on the Far East Westbound tradelane connects Ningbo, China with Wroclaw in Poland with a through transit time of 26 days.

With this service, company strengthens its LCL ocean program that connects Central China with Poland which includes an already existing direct LCL service from Shanghai to Wroclaw. Additional services from Asia-Pacific to Wroclaw are currently being reviewed as the company expects considerable growth in Poland especially within the hi-tech industry.

The service from Antwerp to Houston complements the existing ocean freight LCL service portfolio from Continental Europe to the Gulf of Mexico. It provides weekly guaranteed sailings based on NYK Line. Shipments from Benelux, France and Switzerland that are consolidated in Panalpina’s strategic LCL Ocean Hub in Antwerp serving Houston, Dallas, El Paso, Laredo, McAllen, New Orleans and Tulsa in the Southern US. Transit time from port to port is 18 days.

“Contrary to the overall market development, the demand for additional in-network LCL ocean freight services continued to grow throughout 2009 as the customer focus on safe solutions from door-to-door provided and controlled by one party remained high,” explains Peter Herling, Panalpina’s global head of Product & Procurement Ocean LCL. “As changes in order frequency and size in many cases no longer justified a Full Container Load (FCL) shipment, it became even more important to the customers that their goods that are now shipped as LCL shipments were handled by the least number of parties – being it trucking companies, warehouse operators, handling agents, or shipping lines,” Herling adds.

Panalpina, www.panalpina.com