Shippers weigh options as HIT strike continues (Hong Kong)

April 02 2013

Lines and shippers are making contingency plans in the event the dockworker strike at facilities operated by Hong Kong International Terminals is protracted.

The 1st African conference will be held in Nairobi on the 26th - 28th October and co-located with the Africa Project Logistics Awards 2010.

The Macau conference wass a great success according to many of the CLC members that attended the joint event with The Freight Summit. It was attended by 400 freight forwarders allowing CLC members to meet with many other freight forwarders that did not belong to any networks.

We are planning our next conference in China for March or April and so far we have been considering the following cities:

1. Dalian

2. Tianjin

3. Xiamen

4. Qingdao

We will postpone the conference in Chongqing to later in the year as many of the local Chongqing freight forwarders went out of business in the last 12 month. If you have any other suggestions, please let us know as soon as possible.

The next conference is held in Macau 27th - 30th October together with The Freight Summit. Over 400 people alreaady booked.

African Logistics Club launched.

China Logistics Club has launched African Logistics Club (ALC) to help serve their African members better and on the request of some of our Chinese members who has asked us to get more African members to our conferences in China. Now that the business between China and Africa is much larger than the business between China and India, many Chinese members are developing new trade routes to Africa where profit margins tend to be a lot higher than to the more tradionally trade routes to Europe and the USA.

The next conference will be held in Xiamen on the 25th - 27th March 2009. Further details available on the conference web site.

As of today, we are pleased to announce that we have reached 420 members in 87 countries around the world an amazing growth of 99.85% in the last 12 month.

CLC continues to grow and latest count is 375 members.

Today we reached 360 members with Al Reyami Shipping and Logistics LLC from Dubai as the latest member. Our goal is to reach 500 members by the end of 2008 to enable us to hold even more networking conferences around China.