BULKLOGistics


• Reporting on the global supply chain network for bulk materials in the form of dry bulk, liquids, gases, cargo and freight, whether by road, rail, sea or air. Major bulk logistics contract Germany. HOYER, based in Hamburg, has won a new logistics contract from chemical company INEOS Cologne. Seven other bidders were in the running for the five-year contract which involves the takeover of storage and filling facilities and loading of polyethylene. The objective is to increase annual volume from 510,000 to 560,000 t. In the Cologne area, INEOS, with around 1,800 employees, is one of the most important raw material suppliers for the chemical industry and INEOS Group itself is considered to be third largest global independent chemical company. The operational activities of storage, filling and loading will be organised by HOYER at the INEOS silo storage facility adjacent to PE production in Chempark Dormagen/Cologne. Within the Chempark, HOYER is already operating a silo farm for Lustran polymers (annual capacity 232,000 t of granules) for INEOS and Lanxess. The new business will create synergies for all companies concerned. Under the new scheme, HOYER will bag products into 25 kg bags as well as Octatainers and load bulk and packaged goods. In May 2009, HOYER will also be charged with the storage of packaged goods including the entire storage management at a new storage facility located near the bagging plant. HOYER has already developed a loading and transport concept including a shuttle service and fully automatic loading system to enable automatic transport of palletised goods directly from palletiser onto trailers. At the HOYER site Logistics Centre Rhein-Ruhr in Dormagen customers can benefit from a sophisticated infrastructure including a dangerous goods terminal with a capacity for 490 containers plus rail tracks for both liquid and dry goods in tank containers. 13:27 02/06/2008 CILT calls for professionals for Burma UK. The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK (CILT) has stated there will be a desperate need for logistics professionals, both in Burma and in the UK, to help with the humanitarian relief effort. The immense damage to the logistics infrastructure in Burma, means that CILT is working with its Humanitarian and Emergency Logistics Professionals (HELP) Forum members and the charity RedR to find experienced professional humanitarian logisticians to aid the stricken country. HELP’s Chairman, Bernard Auton FCILT, is asking professionals with relevant humanitarian logistics experience who can help, to contact RedR - an organisation that helps people rebuild their lives by providing skilled aid workers in the field, and provides a technical support service to help solve problems in the field. Auton says RedR needs updated CVs from its members, with the first wave of demand set to be in the Logistics, Watsan (Water and Sanitation) and Shelter competencies. HELP and CILT also want to support charities and NGOs involved in relief operations by helping fill the shoes of those logisticians who have left their UK jobs to work in Burma. Experienced logisticians with time available are being asked to register with the Institute if they can help UK-based logistics operations. • To send an updated CV please send your CV to cv@redr.org. • If your business would like to support this initiative or you would like to volunteer to help in the UK, please contact Bernard Auton, Chairman of HELP on 07887 653117 or send your CV to HELP@ciltuk.org.uk www.ciltuk.org.uk www.humanitarianlogisticsneedsassessment.com 21:31 08/05/2008 Powder tanker company acquired UK. Stiller Group has acquired the assets and trade of South Yorkshire-based James Durrans Transport Ltd, the bulk powder transport division of James Durrans & Sons Ltd, further expanding the capacity and capability of its bulk powder transport service. The business will transfer to Stiller Tankers Ltd, the tankers division of Stiller Group which serves chemicals, fuels and bulk powders industries throughout the UK. The acquisition expands Stiller Tankers’ capabilities into food grade and environmental markets and further afield into continental Europe and will see the fleet expand by 18 tractor units and 21 tanker/trailers. The company will continue to service the requirements of James Durrans & Sons Ltd as well as a portfolio of other clients moving bulk powders. Stiller Group MD Ian Marshall said that the move underlines the synergy between the two businesses. “This acquisition gives us a strong and expanding equipment platform from which to continue to grow our established tanker division,” he said. “The Durrans portfolio is a perfect fit with our current business profile, as culturally the two companies are very similar and share many of the same very focused business aims and values.” As part of Stiller Tankers, the business will continue to operate from its existing base in Barugh Green, Barnsley, UK, conveniently located close to the M1 and also to one of Stiller Group’s key operational transport and warehousing sites in Darton. The existing team will continue to manage the business on a day to day basis, supported by Stiller Group’s management structure. 10:28 25/04/2008 Acquisition of rail cargo company Germany. Shareholders of the privately owned Essen-based rail cargo company RAIL4CHEM are selling the company to VEOLIA Cargo (Paris). BASF, Bertschi, Hoyer and VTG set up RAIL4CHEM in 2000 to intensify competition in the rail cargo sector, developing it into a major private provider in parallel with increasing liberalisation of European rail markets. Sales last year were over €80m. On completion of the transaction, RAIL4CHEM and VEOLIA Cargo's existing rail cargo business will be combined to create Europe's leading privately owned provider of rail cargo services. BASF, HOYER, Bertschi and VTG will remain customers of the company. 13:35 05/03/2008

• Reporting on the global supply chain network for bulk materials in the form of
dry bulk, liquids, gases, cargo and freight, whether by road, rail, sea or air.

Hoyer wins logistics contract Major bulk logistics contract
Germany. HOYER, based in Hamburg, has won a new logistics contract from chemical company INEOS Cologne. Seven other bidders were in the running for the five-year contract which involves the takeover of storage and filling facilities and loading of polyethylene. The objective is to increase annual volume from 510,000 to 560,000 t.
   In the Cologne area, INEOS, with around 1,800 employees, is one of the most important raw material suppliers for the chemical industry and INEOS Group itself is considered to be third largest global independent chemical company.
   The operational activities of storage, filling and loading will be organised by HOYER at the INEOS silo storage facility adjacent to PE production in Chempark Dormagen/Cologne. Within the Chempark, HOYER is already operating a silo farm for Lustran polymers (annual capacity 232,000 t of granules) for INEOS and Lanxess. The new business will create synergies for all companies concerned.
   Under the new scheme, HOYER will bag products into 25 kg bags as well as Octatainers and load bulk and packaged goods. In May 2009, HOYER will also be charged with the storage of packaged goods including the entire storage management at a new storage facility located near the bagging plant. HOYER has already developed a loading and transport concept including a shuttle service and fully automatic loading system to enable automatic transport of palletised goods directly from palletiser onto trailers.
   At the HOYER site Logistics Centre Rhein-Ruhr in Dormagen customers can benefit from a sophisticated infrastructure including a dangerous goods terminal with a capacity for 490 containers plus rail tracks for both liquid and dry goods in tank containers.
13:27 02/06/2008

CILT calls for professionals for Burma
UK. The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK (CILT) has stated there will be a desperate need for logistics professionals, both in Burma and in the UK, to help with the humanitarian relief effort. The immense damage to the logistics infrastructure in Burma, means that CILT is working with its Humanitarian and Emergency Logistics Professionals (HELP) Forum members and the charity RedR to find experienced professional humanitarian logisticians to aid the stricken country.
   HELP’s Chairman, Bernard Auton FCILT, is asking professionals with relevant humanitarian logistics experience who can help, to contact RedR - an organisation that helps people rebuild their lives by providing skilled aid workers in the field, and provides a technical support service to help solve problems in the field.
   Auton says RedR needs updated CVs from its members, with the first wave of demand set to be in the Logistics, Watsan (Water and Sanitation) and Shelter competencies.
   HELP and CILT also want to support charities and NGOs involved in relief operations by helping fill the shoes of those logisticians who have left their UK jobs to work in Burma. Experienced logisticians with time available are being asked to register with the Institute if they can help UK-based logistics operations.
• To send an updated CV please send your CV to cv@redr.org.
• If your business would like to support this initiative or you would like to volunteer to help in the UK, please contact Bernard Auton, Chairman of HELP on 07887 653117 or send your CV to HELP@ciltuk.org.uk
www.ciltuk.org.uk
www.humanitarianlogisticsneedsassessment.com
21:31 08/05/2008

Powder tanker company acquired
UK. Stiller Group has acquired the assets and trade of South Yorkshire-based James Durrans Transport Ltd, the bulk powder transport division of James Durrans & Sons Ltd, further expanding the capacity and capability of its bulk powder transport service. The business will transfer to Stiller Tankers Ltd, the tankers division of Stiller Group which serves chemicals, fuels and bulk powders industries throughout the UK.
   The acquisition expands Stiller Tankers’ capabilities into food grade and environmental markets and further afield into continental Europe and will see the fleet expand by 18 tractor units and 21 tanker/trailers. The company will continue to service the requirements of James Durrans & Sons Ltd as well as a portfolio of other clients moving bulk powders.
   Stiller Group MD Ian Marshall said that the move underlines the synergy between the two businesses. “This acquisition gives us a strong and expanding equipment platform from which to continue to grow our established tanker division,” he said. “The Durrans portfolio is a perfect fit with our current business profile, as culturally the two companies are very similar and share many of the same very focused business aims and values.”
   As part of Stiller Tankers, the business will continue to operate from its existing base in Barugh Green, Barnsley, UK, conveniently located close to the M1 and also to one of Stiller Group’s key operational transport and warehousing sites in Darton. The existing team will continue to manage the business on a day to day basis, supported by Stiller Group’s management structure.
10:28 25/04/2008

Acquisition of rail cargo company
Germany. Shareholders of the privately owned Essen-based rail cargo company RAIL4CHEM are selling the company to VEOLIA Cargo (Paris).
BASF, Bertschi, Hoyer and VTG set up RAIL4CHEM in 2000 to intensify competition in the rail cargo sector, developing it into a major private provider in parallel with increasing liberalisation of European rail markets. Sales last year were over €80m.
On completion of the transaction, RAIL4CHEM and VEOLIA Cargo's existing rail cargo business will be combined to create Europe's leading privately owned provider of rail cargo services. BASF, HOYER, Bertschi and VTG will remain customers of the company.
13:35 05/03/2008