LCL, which has recently arranged finance for a new European trucking operation, based in Spain, controls up to 450 vehicles. Exec looks at how it plans to enter new markets.
Written by Abigail Saltmarsh and Produced by Paul Radbourne
Managing director of LCL, Ole Schack-Petersen, has been with the company since its birth eight years ago. He has watched the company blossom into a global operation, providing integrated door-to-door, multi-modal and multi-destination logistics solutions for the world’s perishable trades.
Since mid 2007 LCL has been part of the Japanese shipping and logistics company, NYK. It also operates from some 40 offices worldwide and has a particularly high presence in South and Central America, as well as in South Africa. Its aim now is to develop its business in the Far East and the Red and Black Sea areas and to take its operation even further into the hearts of production areas.
“We are currently investing in the areas of our supply chain where we believe there is the greatest potential to meet our customers’ long term logistics needs,” he says. “This means improving both the seamless transportation service we can provide and setting up local logistics platforms where necessary.”
Seamless Logistics
Today the system it uses to link each step in the logistic chain is called the Transport Chain Management System (TCMS). This is a web-based system for information management and control.
Within TCMS, information about service providers, from trucking and storage companies, and shipping lines to quality inspection providers, is immediately available to customers. The system also contains practical information about vehicle and storage capacities, ports, timetables and routes etc. With all these components accessible through the system, an entire door-to-door transport system can be quickly booked and easily tracked electronically…
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