Panalpina launches new freight services

Panalpina is offering two new LCL (less than container load) services to its ocean freight customers.

By adding seamless connections between Belgium and the US as well as between China and Poland, the company can provide end-to-end services.

“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”, explained Peter Herling, Panalpina’s global head of product and procurement, ocean LCL.

“As changes in order frequency and size in many cases no longer justified an FCL (full container load) shipment, it became even more important to the customers that their goods now shipped as LCL shipments were handled by the least number of parties, being it trucking companies, warehouse operators, handling agents, or shipping lines.

Panalpina’s in-house NVOCC (non vessel operating common carrier), Pantainer Express Line, is a natural choice for many companies as their single service ocean provider and contact,’’ said Herling. It operates every week from Antwerp, Belgium to Houston, Texas.

The new service complements the existing ocean freight LCL service portfolio from Continental Europe to the Gulf of Mexico. It provides weekly guaranteed sailings based on Panalpina’s long-time partner NYK Line.

Shipments from Benelux, France and Switzerland 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.

Also based on NYK Line, Panalpina has introduced a second LCL service on the Far East Westbound trade lane connecting Ningbo with Wroclaw in Poland with a through transit time of 26 days.
With this new service from Ningbo, Panalpina strengthens its LCL ocean program connecting 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 Panalpina expects considerable growth in Poland, especially in the hi-tech industry.

 

(source: Cargo News Asia)