Outsourced Logistics

Opens New Offices in Berlin and Poland to Service a Shift in Manufacturing from Asia to Eastern Europe

Lake Success, New York – Ocean World Lines (OWL), a global door-to-door and end-to-end NVOCC, announced today that it has opened an office in Berlin and a new office in Gdynia, Poland to support its customers’ increasing requirements for ocean and air services in the region, as well as the overall growth of the Eastern European economy.

The Berlin office is primarily dedicated to managing worldwide airfreight under OWL’s IATA license numbers, including cargo pick-up and consolidation, trucking, warehousing, cargo packing and crating, cargo insurance, cargo de-consolidation and distribution.

The Poland office is part of OWL’s expansion plans in Eastern Europe and offers a full range of services, including pre-carriage and on-carriage. OWL has been servicing the European market since 1992 and is represented in all major cities and ports.

According to Cord Bruegge, OWL’s managing director for Europe, the company is seeing more and more business from manufacturers capitalizing on a market shift in sourcing from Asia to Eastern European factories due to the geographical and time zone advantages, lower transportation costs, quality and competitive pricing. In a recent Bloomberg article about Eastern Europe, it stated that the region is “still consistent with double-digit annual increases in industrial production.”

“While big carriers and forwarders have a tendency to concentrate their offices in the larger markets, we go where our customers are and open local offices,” said Bruegge, who has been with OWL for 18 years. “OWL Berlin was an important step for us in launching our new air cargo services and it acts as our regional ‘hub’ for OWL AIR, offering services from Europe to anywhere in the world. We have a highly experienced team that has worked with many top-named air carriers and as a result, we are growing much faster than anticipated,” he said.

“OWL Poland has allowed us to move into one of the hottest economies in Europe,” noted Bruegge. “When you look at the fast development that Poland is going through presently, it is clear that a carrier like OWL needs to be present with our own office and our own staff. Many of the major producers are in the process of opening their own plants in Poland and we will see an incredible growth rate in that market.”

OWL plans to go further into the Eastern European countries and will add more locations in 2011, including an office in Szczecin, Poland’s seventh largest city situated in the northwest where the river Odra meets the Baltic Sea.

“Our Berlin and Poland locations help round out the OWL Europe services with our established offices in Ipswich (United Kingdom), Hamburg and Bremen,” said Bruegge. “We have the best of both worlds with our own offices in these strategic locations, along with the support of long-standing agency relationships throughout Europe to deliver the most flexible logistics solutions to our customers.”

About Ocean World Lines

Ocean World Lines, known in the industry by its iconic owl logo, is one of the largest fully bonded NVOCC’s in the world. OWL maintains more than 45 service contracts with the top ocean carriers and handles today’s most complex global supply chain requirements.

Founded in 1979, OWL works with importers, exporters and freight forwarders to move all types of cargo and provides global ocean and air door-to-door/end-to-end service. OWL offers a single source experience for its customers coupled with leading-edge technology for a truly value-based solution.

With over 200 employees worldwide, OWL has offices located in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Qingdao, Singapore, Tokyo, Atlanta, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Long Beach, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, Poland, Bremen, Hamburg, and Ipswich, as well as a network of agents worldwide.

OWL is a subsidiary of Pacer International, a leading North American freight transportation and logistics service provider that offers a broad array of services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination.

Automotive supplier is now using Apriso’s enterprise manufacturing execution system to manage production and supply network operations.

LONG BEACH, CA & Tokyo – (Oct 12, 2010) — Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions for sustained operational excellence, today announced that NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd (NGKNTK), a leading Tier 1 automotive supplier based in Japan, has adopted and installed Apriso’s FlexNet as their enterprise manufacturing and logistics execution system. Three sites are now live in NGKNTK’s Sensor Division, along with the management of several outsourcing companies across their supply network. These sites are a part of an implementation in process across NGKNTK’s automotive business unit.

Apriso’s solution supports NGKNTK’s strategy to meet various operational objectives, which includes collaboration between production processes and billing, managing production and packing while ensuring inventory levels are minimized to support Lean initiatives. Due to the limitation of the ERP system, these functions, along with others, were managed by FlexNet and integrated to ERP, helping NGKNTK gain further value out of their ERP investment.

“NGKNTK’s implementation of FlexNet has enabled us to realize greater visibility across each production line, resulting in improved operational performance. We now see actual production performance to plan, helping to raise people’s awareness, even causing an attitude change on site. We plan to expand this visibility further by increasing our use of FlexNet,” explained their General Manager of the Systems Promotion Department, Ceramic Sensor Division.

With the support of Apriso, the solution delivers real-time visibility and control to NGKNTK’s automobile sensor’s manufacturing plants and various outsourcing companies, located both domestically and internationally.

“By leveraging the best practice processes within each of FlexNet’s business components, our project’s objectives were completed faster resulting in dramatically improved financial results. We now understand and enjoy the flexibility of FlexNet, after a successful project completion. Based on these results, we now recognize FlexNet as being the industry’s best manufacturing execution system, a global enterprise solution worthy of expanded deployment,” said the Supervisor of their Komaki System Development Team, Information Systems Department, NGKNTK.

“Apriso is pleased to play such an important role in our customer’s success, as has been the case with NGKNTK. We look forward to expanding our relationship to support NGKNTK’s plans to implement FlexNet as their standardized, global manufacturing execution system across the company’s Japanese and overseas operations,” offered Gerry Fosnick, General Manager, Apriso Japan.

About Apriso

Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling organizations to achieve and sustain manufacturing excellence while adapting quickly and easily to market changes. Apriso’s FlexNet is a BPM platform-based software solution for global manufacturing operations management. Apriso supports global continuous improvement by delivering visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing and the product supply network. Apriso serves 180+ customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Customers include General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Saint-Gobain, Novelis and Essilor. Learn more at: www.apriso.com.

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Media Contacts:

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Apriso North America

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Apriso Japan K.K.

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info@apriso.co.jp

Adds Air Cargo to its Global Transportation Portfolio to Become a Single Source Provider for Ocean, Land and Air

With air freight forwarding growing at triple digit rates in the first half of 2010, Ocean World Lines (OWL), a global door-to-door and end-to-end NVOCC, announced today that it has introduced a new in-house air freight division to provide a single point of contact for air, ocean and land freight solutions.

OWL AIR covers all routes worldwide with a major focus between Asia, Europe and North America and dedicated air freight personnel based at each of its offices. OWLs air freight services include cargo pick-up and consolidation, trucking, warehousing, cargo packing and crating, cargo insurance, cargo de-consolidation and distribution.

According to Alan Baer, OWLs president, the company is now a single point provider for a total global freight solution. “We have had a strong awareness and presence in the ocean freight business for 30 years,” said Baer. “Our ocean clients have been asking for air freight moves so we hired the best people in the industry and now have our own in-house capabilities, making us a more well-rounded service provider.”

“By adding air freight, we are supplying our customers with greater control, flexibility and timeliness for their shipments,” said Baer. “Now when our clients have a seasonal delivery or critical deadline that calls for the speed of air freight, they don’t have to waste time calling multiple suppliers.”

OWLs new air service is supported by its OWL360° visibility platform which provides comprehensive details of all freight moves in one system. “With OWL360°, our customers have greater visibility into their supply chain in a single location, providing instant access to their shipping information, and the ability to track, measure and compare the performance of all modes of transportation, including ocean, air, rail, and truck. This results in better overall performance and a competitive market advantage,” said Baer.

About Ocean World Lines

Ocean World Lines, known in the industry by its iconic owl logo, is one of the largest fully bonded NVOCCs in the world. OWL maintains more than 45 service contracts with the top ocean carriers and handles today’s most complex global supply chain requirements.

Founded in 1979, OWL works with importers, exporters and freight forwarders to move all types of cargo and provide global door-to-door/end-to-end service. OWL offers a one-stop shop experience for its customers coupled with leading-edge technology for a truly value-based solution.

With over 200 employees worldwide, OWL has offices located in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Singapore, Tokyo, Atlanta, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Long Beach, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, and Ipswich, as well as a network of agents worldwide.

OWL is a subsidiary of Pacer International, a leading North American freight transportation and logistics service provider that offers a broad array of services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination.

Ocean World Lines Introduces OWL AIR

Adds Air Cargo to its Global Transportation Portfolio to

Become a Single Source Provider for Ocean, Land and Air

With air freight forwarding growing at triple digit rates in the first half of 2010, Ocean World Lines (OWL), a global door-to-door and end-to-end NVOCC, announced today that it has introduced a new in-house air freight division to provide a single point of contact for air, ocean and land freight solutions.

OWL AIR covers all routes worldwide with a major focus between Asia, Europe and North America and dedicated air freight personnel based at each of its offices. OWL’s air freight services include cargo pick-up and consolidation, trucking, warehousing, cargo packing and crating, cargo insurance, cargo de-consolidation and distribution.

According to Alan Baer, OWL’s president, the company is now a single point provider for a total global freight solution. “We have had a strong awareness and presence in the ocean freight business for 30 years,” said Baer. “Our ocean clients have been asking for air freight moves so we hired the best people in the industry and now have our own in-house capabilities, making us a more well-rounded service provider.”

“By adding air freight, we are supplying our customers with greater control, flexibility and timeliness for their shipments,” said Baer. “Now when our clients have a seasonal delivery or critical deadline that calls for the speed of air freight, they don’t have to waste time calling multiple suppliers.”

OWL’s new air service is supported by its OWL360° visibility platform which provides comprehensive details of all freight moves in one system. “With OWL360°, our customers have greater visibility into their supply chain in a single location, providing instant access to their shipping information, and the ability to track, measure and compare the performance of all modes of transportation, including ocean, air, rail, and truck. This results in better overall performance and a competitive market advantage,” said Baer.

About Ocean World Lines

Ocean World Lines, known in the industry by its iconic owl logo, is one of the largest fully bonded NVOCC’s in the world. OWL maintains more than 45 service contracts with the top ocean carriers and handles today’s most complex global supply chain requirements.

Founded in 1979, OWL works with importers, exporters and freight forwarders to move all types of cargo and provide global door-to-door/end-to-end service. OWL offers a one-stop shop experience for its customers coupled with leading-edge technology for a truly value-based solution.

With over 200 employees worldwide, OWL has offices located in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Singapore, Tokyo, Atlanta, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Long Beach, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, and Ipswich, as well as a network of agents worldwide.

OWL is a subsidiary of Pacer International, a leading North American freight transportation and logistics service provider that offers a broad array of services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination.