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John S. Connor, Inc. expands its New York/New Jersey office

Contact: Joe Greenwald 610-495-9324  News – for immediate release John S. Connor, Inc. expands its New York/New Jersey office  Glen Burnie, Md. (May 25, 2011) –John S. Connor, Inc. has announced the expansion of its Vessel Agency operations in New Jersey to include Customs Brokerage and Freight Forwarding services.  Gary L. Klestadt was hired to oversee the operation as the Branch Manager.  “We are very pleased to have expanded our footprint in the New York/New Jersey area,” stated Lee Connor, president of John S. Connor. “This is obviously a tremendous market and with the addition of Gary Klestadt’s knowledge and experience we are looking forward to continuing our tradition of providing outstanding logistics services and broadening our customer base.”  Prior to the sale of his company in June 2008, Gary was president of Trans-World Shipping Corp., where he began his brokerage/forwarding career in 1980. A graduate of New York University, he holds a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance. He is a licensed Customs broker, obtaining his license in 1983.  He serves on the board of the New York/New Jersey Foreign Freight Forwarders and Brokers Association, and is an active member of the Export Committee, and Freight Forwarding Committee. John S. Connor began as an ocean customs broker/freight forwarder at the Port of Baltimore in 1917.  It has since evolved into a multi-modal business with expertise in ocean and air freight, and domestic transportation.  It has grown to be the largest of its kind in the port of Baltimore, and has branched out to areas along the East coast and in the Mid-Atlantic region.  Throughout its history, the company’s philosophy has emphasized the importance of personal customer service with innovation and integrity. The company’s website is: (http://www.jsconnor.com)# # # For more information contact:Joe Greenwald (610) 495-9324joe@greenwaldcomm.comGreenwald Communications Associates110 Walker Road, Limerick, PA 19468www.greenwaldcomm.com

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ICIS Chemical Business Names ChemLogix as Top Global Chemical 3PL

ChemLogix, LLC, a leading logistics services provider for the chemical industry, (www.chemlogix.com) was selected by ICIS Chemical Business magazine as one of its Top 50 Global Chemical 3PLs for 2011.  The ICIS Top 50 showcases the world’s major third-party logistics providers to the chemical sector, which includes major players in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa. “3PLs can be a critical part of the chemical supply chain, providing services such as warehousing, shipping, freight forwarding and other aspects of logistics management.  As the chemical markets become more global and complex, the role of asset based and non-asset-based 3PLs (also known as 4PLs) will only rise,” notes Joseph Chang, Global Editor, ICIS Chemical Business.  Responding to the expanding supply chain needs of its customers, ChemLogix has become more globalized in recent years, extending its international reach of managed freight to include US, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Central & South America.   Most recently, the international chemical logistics services provider surpassed the milestone annualized rate of 1,000,000 shipments under management.  For more information on ChemLogix and its international logistics services, please refer to its web site at www.chemlogix.com  The ICIS Top 50 Chemical 3PLs listing is available at: http://www.chemlogix.com/pdf/TheICISTop50Chemical3PLs.pdf.  ICISICIS is the trusted information provider for the chemical and energy industries. ICIS aims to help companies in global commodity markets improve their revenues and profits by providing high quality, timely, commercially useful information, business leads and brand positioning across the globe. To find out more, visit http://www.icis.com About ChemLogix LLCChemLogix, LLC is a leading provider of comprehensive chemical industry transportation management, technology, and supply chain consulting services that enable its clients to improve performance and drive economic value. ChemLogix is dedicated to solving its customers’ most vital logistics challenges by leveraging chemical industry expertise, best-of-breed technology and a personalized, high-touch approach to deliver measurable, sustainable value. For more information, visit www.chemlogix.com or email information@chemlogix.com

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ICIS Chemical Business Names ChemLogix as Top Global Chemical 3PL

ChemLogix, LLC, a leading logistics services provider for the chemical industry, (www.chemlogix.com) was selected by ICIS Chemical Business magazine as one of its Top 50 Global Chemical 3PLs for 2011.  The ICIS Top 50 showcases the world’s major third-party logistics providers to the chemical sector, which includes major players in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa. “3PLs can be a critical part of the chemical supply chain, providing services such as warehousing, shipping, freight forwarding and other aspects of logistics management.  As the chemical markets become more global and complex, the role of asset based and non-asset-based 3PLs (also known as 4PLs) will only rise,” notes Joseph Chang, Global Editor, ICIS Chemical Business.  Responding to the expanding supply chain needs of its customers, ChemLogix has become more globalized in recent years, extending its international reach of managed freight to include US, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Central & South America.   Most recently, the international chemical logistics services provider surpassed the milestone annualized rate of 1,000,000 shipments under management.  For more information on ChemLogix and its international logistics services, please refer to its web site at www.chemlogix.com  The ICIS Top 50 Chemical 3PLs listing is available at: http://www.chemlogix.com/pdf/TheICISTop50Chemical3PLs.pdf.

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Weber Logistics Signs Contract With Topco Associates To Distribute Specialized Grocery and Home Beauty Care Products

Weber Logistics, a leading third party logistics and supply chain management provider, announced today that it has signed a multi-year contract with Topco Associates LLC to warehouse and distribute specialized products to its West Coast member-owners.


Under the new contract, Weber manages roughly 2,000 SKUs for a variety of products, including specialized grocery, general merchandise and home beauty care. Weber stores Topco’s products at its newly expanded Stockton, California facility where its employees perform a variety of 3PL related services, including order fulfillment, labeling and outbound transportation for Topco’s west coast member-owners: Stater Brothers, Raley’s, Save-Mart, Bashas’, Haggen, and C&S (west).


“Topco Associates is an industry leader in the food and HBC industries, and we are honored to have them as our customer,” said Marc Levin, Weber’s senior vice president, client solutions. “They have an exciting growth plan, and we look forward to managing their logistics needs from Stockton, California – a strategic hub location for West Coast distribution.”


About Topco Associates LLC

Topco Associates LLC is an $11.3 billion, privately held company that provides aggregation, innovation and knowledge management solutions for leading food industry member-owners and customers. Topco leverages the collective volume, knowledge and commitment of these companies to create a competitive advantage in the marketplace by reducing costs and offering winning business-building capabilities. Topco’s membership collectively represents billions in retail sales volume with thousands of stores.


About Weber Logistics

With 86 years of experience, Weber Logistics has evolved into a nationwide provider of logistics solutions. Weber’s expertise includes non-asset based freight management, temperature sensitive asset-based LTL and TL services, dedicated and shared warehousing, distribution, cross-docking/pool distribution, transloading, network optimization modeling and analysis, retail compliance, order fulfillment, material handling, supply chain management, real estate development, and personnel staffing.


Weber specializes in providing its clients with unique innovative logistics solutions primarily to these vertical markets:

 Retailers/Importers

 Food & Beverage/CPG

 Industrial Products

 Confectionary


Weber serves many well-known and respected companies such as Walmart, Safeway, General Mills, Hershey, Nestlé, Spectrum Brands, California Innovations, Scholastic Books, and PPG Industries. As a result of its on-going innovation, experience and dedication, Weber has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, including:

 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

 Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 3PLs

 Logistics Management’s Top 50 3PLs

 The Los Angeles Business Journal’s Top 100 Privately-Held Companies

 Food Logistics Magazine’s Top 70 3PLs

 Food Logistics Magazine’s FL100 listing of the top technology solution and service providers to the food industry.

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WEBER LOGISTICS EXPANDS IN STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA

SANTA FE SPRINGS, California – Weber Logistics, a leading third party logistics and supply chain management provider, announced today that it has expanded in Stockton, California, the key hub location for Northern California.


Weber’s Stockton facility has added 155,000 square feet to its location for a total of 208,000 square feet with over 12,000 racked positions.


The facility is divided into temperature-controlled and dry storage and offers LTL, truckload, storage and value-added services such as order processing, label generation, inventory control, routing guide compliance, and pick & pack. This includes distribution for all of Northern California, as well as Nevada ranging from Fresno to Redding and San Francisco to Reno. Weber is servicing food, confectionary, beverage, CPG and retail companies from its Stockton facility, some of which include a herbal cough/cold company and a large supplier to major grocery chains.


The advantage of the facility is rail and surface transportation for import containers and product, along with local access to the surface infrastructure throughout California and the Western States. Located between the 99 and the main West Coast Interstate I-5, the City of Stockton is one of California’s fastest growing cities. Stockton is 60 miles east of the San Francisco Bay Area, 83 miles east of San Francisco, and 45 miles south of Sacramento.


“Stockton is a great location in Northern California to grow our business and service the needs of our customers,” said Marc Levin, Weber’s senior vice president, client solutions. “From our facility we can easily access the north, east, west and south directions, which is why we will continue to expand our logistics operations in Stockton with more warehousing space, trucks and services.”


About Weber Logistics

With 86 years of experience, Weber Logistics has evolved into a nationwide provider of logistics solutions. Weber’s expertise includes non-asset based freight management, temperature sensitive asset-based LTL and TL services, dedicated and shared warehousing, distribution, cross-docking/pool distribution, transloading, network optimization modeling and analysis, retail compliance, order fulfillment, material handling, supply chain management, real estate development, and personnel staffing.


Weber specializes in providing its clients with unique innovative logistics solutions primarily to these vertical markets:

 Retailers/Importers

 Food & Beverage/CPG

 Industrial Products

 Confectionary


Weber serves many well-known and respected companies such as Walmart, Safeway, General Mills, Hershey, Nestlé, Spectrum Brands, California Innovations, Scholastic Books, and PPG Industries. As a result of its on-going innovation, experience and dedication, Weber has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, including:

 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

 Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 3PLs

 Logistics Management’s Top 50 3PLs

 The Los Angeles Business Journal’s Top 100 Privately-Held Companies

 Food Logistics Magazine’s Top 70 3PLs

 Food Logistics Magazine’s FL100 listing of the top technology solution and service providers to the food industry.


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OWL’s CEO Delivers Speech on Lean and Six Sigma: Integrating the Best of Both in a Supply Chain at CSCMP

The NVO Donates to the CSCMP Scholarship Fund to Support Supply Chain Education


Ocean World Lines (OWL), a global, single source NVOCC (non-vessel operating common carrier) and a subsidiary of Pacer International, Inc., CEO, Daniel L. Gardner, delivered a speech today titled Lean and Six Sigma: Integrating the Best of Both in a Supply Chain at CSCMP’s (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals) Lean Leadership Summit in Irvine, California.


The Lean Leadership Summit was designed to help top management in all business functions learn how to leverage Lean system thinking to transform business operations in order to drive organizational growth. Each track addresses how to leverage Lean system thinking as a tool for growth in one of four focus areas: manufacturing, enterprise operations, supply chain, and financial services and healthcare.


In conjunction with the Summit, OWL donated to the CSCMP Roundtable Scholarship Fund which will help strengthen CSCMP and the supply chain management profession as a whole. OWL is very involved with CSCMP as a board member of the Southern California Round Table and they have conducted many complimentary training classes for the trade community through the organization.


“The CSCMP scholarship helps advance the cause of education, which is something we believe in at every level of our organization, from internal training for our employees, to educational seminars for our customers, to scholarships which help develop future leaders of our industry,” said Susan Hoffman, OWL’s marketing manager. “As good corporate citizens, we believe in giving back to the community and the scholarship program is one way in which we do that. We truly believe logistics excellence is achieved through applied learning.”


About Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

Founded in 1963, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals is the leading worldwide professional association dedicated to education, research, and the advancement of the supply chain management profession. With over 8,500 members globally, representing business, government, and academia from 63 countries, CSCMP members are the leading practitioners and authorities in the fields of logistics and supply chain management.


About Ocean World Lines

Ocean World Lines, a subsidiary of Pacer International, is one of the largest fully bonded NVOCCs in the world. OWL, known in the industry by its iconic owl logo, 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 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, Louisville, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, San Francisco, Seattle, Gdynia, Szczecin, Ipswich, Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, as well as a network of agents worldwide.


About Pacer International

Pacer International, a leading global door-to-door solutions provider, offers a broad array of services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination through its intermodal and logistics operating segments. The intermodal segment offers container capacity, integrated local transportation services, and door-to-door intermodal shipment management. The logistics segment provides truck brokerage, warehousing and distribution, international freight forwarding, and supply-chain management services. For more information on Pacer International visit www.pacer.com.

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Apriso Introduces FlexNet Manufacturing Process Intelligence

Apriso logoCompany expands solution for adaptive global manufacturing; latest release improves collaboration via enterprise manufacturing intelligence


PALM BEACH, FL — May 10, 2011 — At today’s Manufacturing Leadership Summit, Apriso instantiated its strategy for global manufacturing with the introduction of FlexNet Manufacturing Process Intelligence (MPI), a real-time solution for manufacturing intelligence and analytics. MPI delivers enterprise wide manufacturing visibility to improve synchronization and control across product supply networks. Global manufacturers benefit from improved flexibility, profitability and customer satisfaction.


“Without a broad business perspective, a company cannot address the strategic issues at the core of business performance and organizational competitiveness. Vital management questions may go unanswered if information is fragmented. Analytics can illuminate … questions only if decision makers can see across regions, business units or processes and consider information from the entire enterprise,” stated Thomas H. Davenport, an author of “Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results” and keynote speaker at this year’s Manufacturing Leadership Summit.


“Apriso’s strategy of enabling adaptive global manufacturing focuses on delivering solutions for companies to build collaborative, synchronized manufacturing operations within and across plants. MPI extends the FlexNet platform by offering a global, real-time intelligence solution across all operations,” explained Tom Comstock, executive vice president of worldwide marketing, product management and strategy at Apriso. “Our customers can more easily correlate information drawn from their entire manufacturing enterprise, gaining real-time visibility and control into manufacturing processes, plants, regions and business units.”


MPI’s operational data store provides instant, standardized access to comprehensive analytics on aggregated production, quality, warehouse, maintenance and labor process data. Features include:


• Real-time data representations – in the form of dashboards, charts and pivot tables, which are updated as new information becomes available while also supporting multidimensional analytics on long-term data

• Global access to all manufacturing sites – to compare and analyze from any location while enforcing metrics standardization

• Unified data repository – to quickly collect and correlate data across all manufacturing operations, resulting in accelerated decision making and greater agility when launching new products or markets

• Predefined and flexible process analytics – preconfigured manufacturing intelligence complemented by ad-hoc analysis capabilities

• Actionable intelligence – drill-down capabilities and FlexNet extensions enable instantaneous action to make the necessary changes to optimize operations

• Included add-ins for Microsoft Excel – to enable rapid data access, analysis sharing and reuse

• Open architecture – built on the Microsoft framework, MPI can be easily integrated with existing Business Intelligence applications

• Data integration wizard – for rapid mapping of standard and extended data elements


“Most manufacturing intelligence implementations are challenged by access to and the changing nature of the data” said John Fishell, vice president product management. “As an extension of the FlexNet platform, MPI addresses this issue by building on the breath of operational data already collected and managed by the FlexNet manufacturing execution system. This architecture ensures data integrity and accuracy for process changes implemented within FlexNet, helping our customers extend the value of a platform-based approach to manufacturing operations management. ”


MPI offers visibility and analytics technology to support Lean, Six Sigma and other continuous improvement initiatives. With FlexNet’s real-time visibility across all operations, manufacturers can move from a loose federation of plants into an agile, tightly synchronized, collaborative product supply network.


About Apriso

Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to helping its customers transform their global manufacturing operations. It does so by enabling manufacturers 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 nearly 200 customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Customers include GM, Volvo CE, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, Textron Systems, MBDA, Saint-Gobain 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:

Michael Gallo

Gutenberg Communications

+1 (212) 239-8594

mgallo@gutenbergpr.com


Gordon Benzie

Apriso Corporation

+1 (562) 951-8054

gordon.benzie@apriso.com


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Weber Logistics Hires Seasoned Director of Operations, Inland Empire West

Weber Logistics, a leading third party logistics and supply chain management provider for 86 years, announced today that it has hired Robert Clay as director of operations, Inland Empire West, effective immediately.


Clay comes to Weber with more than 24 years of industry experience managing a wide variety of operations from ocean to air. As director of operations, Clay is responsible for Weber’s Inland Empire facilities, which consist of three distribution centers, and two in Stockton, California, totaling 1,102,000 square feet. In this capacity, he provides overall direction at each facility and has four direct reports who oversee 130 Weber employees.


Most recently Clay worked for Maersk Distribution as general manager. His experience includes working for Exel Direct as general manager, as well as FedEx Logistics where he started as an operations manager and was promoted to senior and general manager in the express and logistics departments of the company. He also worked for MarkAir as director of services, Alaska International Air as station manager, and Husky Oil Company as traffic manager.


“Rob has a very impressive and diverse background with his experience at such well-known companies as FedEx and Maersk,” said Marc Levin, Weber’s senior vice president, client solutions. “We are excited to have Rob on our team and his strengths in safety, training, quality, and all modes of transportation are going to enhance and improve our customers’ supply chains.”


About Weber Logistics

With 86 years of experience, Weber Logistics has evolved into a nationwide provider of logistics solutions. Weber’s expertise includes non-asset based freight management, temperature sensitive asset-based LTL and TL services, dedicated and shared warehousing, distribution, cross-docking/pool distribution, transloading, network optimization modeling and analysis, retail compliance, order fulfillment, material handling, supply chain management, real estate development, and personnel staffing.


Weber specializes in providing its clients with unique innovative logistics solutions primarily to these vertical markets:

 Retailers/Importers

 Food & Beverage/CPG

 Industrial Products

 Confectionary


Weber serves many well-known and respected companies such as Walmart, Safeway, General Mills, Hershey, Nestlé, Spectrum Brands, California Innovations, Scholastic Books, and PPG Industries.


As a result of its on-going innovation, experience and dedication, Weber has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, including:

 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

 Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 3PLs

 Logistics Management’s Top 50 3PLs

 The Los Angeles Business Journal’s Top 100 Privately-Held Companies

 Food Logistics Magazine’s Top 70 3PLs

 Food Logistics Magazine’s FL100 listing of the top technology solution and service providers to the food industry.

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Apriso Achieves Record Revenue in First Quarter 2011

Apriso logoTotal quarterly revenue more than doubles on year-over-year basis


LONG BEACH, CA – May 5, 2011 – Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions, today announced record revenue achievement for the First Quarter 2011. The Company achieved total revenue growth of 132 percent on a year-over-year basis. Total revenue growth was driven by significant software license orders from consumer goods, industrial equipment and packaging manufacturers.


“The need for global manufacturing operations management solutions continues to grow as manufacturers come to understand the significant operational efficiencies that can be achieved when viewing, managing and continuously improving operations on an enterprise-wide basis,” stated Jim Henderson, president and CEO of Apriso. “Our dramatic growth in the first quarter was driven by large scale roll-outs, demonstrating the value Apriso provides these manufacturers. Our consistent growth over the last few years validates our strategy to focus on delivering our best-in-class global manufacturing excellence solutions.”


Customer Activity

Large scale deployments by new and existing customers in the consumer goods (CG), packaging and industrial equipment industries drove first quarter revenues.


• One CG manufacturer implemented FlexNet across their global operations so quickly that they elected to accelerate their enterprise roll out

• Another CG manufacturer purchased FlexNet for global traceability across their enterprise

• A Japanese CG manufacturer made an enterprise commitment to Apriso with a multi-site order

• As previously announced on April 11, 2011, Cummins made an enterprise commitment for their power generation and component manufacturing operations

• A global packaging manufacturer made an enterprise decision to implement FlexNet as their enterprise Manufacturing Execution System


In the quarter, BAT Mexico presented their use of FlexNet’s “track and trace” capabilities, as part of their Anti-Counterfeiting and Smuggling strategy, at the ARC World Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida. Over 50 customers had active Apriso professional services’ engagements during the first quarter to support their FlexNet roll-outs. In addition, partner professional services activity has accelerated to meet the growing global demand for FlexNet. A total of four new customer sites went live in Japan, Russia, France and Brazil in the first quarter of 2011.


Product Updates

In January, Apriso announced expanded paperless manufacturing capabilities for Aerospace & Defense manufacturers with FlexNet 9.5, which now includes advanced electronic data capture to help reduce costs, increase agility and simplify integration to ERP, PLM and other enterprise applications. These product enhancements are ideally suited to the aerospace and defense industry, helping the company to successfully expand in first quarter of 2011 within this industry segment.


Partners

As part of the company’s strategic focus to simplify integration to third party enterprise applications such as PLM and ERP, the Company announced it joined PTC’s PartnerAdvantage™ Program. Apriso’s FlexNet Manufacturing Execution System will integrate with PTC’s Windchill® manufacturing process management technologies to streamline manufacturing engineering and process management for its discrete manufacturing customers. Apriso is scheduled to be a featured platinum vendor at PlanetPTC in Las Vegas in June, PTC’s next worldwide user group event.


About Apriso

Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to helping its customers transform their global manufacturing operations. It does so by enabling manufacturers 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 nearly 200 customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Customers include GM, Volvo CE, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, Textron Systems, MBDA, Saint-Gobain 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:

Michael Gallo

Gutenberg Communications

(212) 239-8594

mgallo@gutenbergpr.com


Gordon Benzie

Apriso Corporation

(562) 951-8054

gordon.benzie@apriso.com

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Ocean World Lines Opens Its Third Office in Poland Today

Warsaw offers shippers access to largest airport in the region


Ocean World Lines (OWL), a global, single source NVOCC (non-vessel operating common carrier) and a subsidiary of Pacer International, Inc., opens its third office in Poland today located at the country’s capital and largest city of Warsaw.


OWL’s Warsaw branch office is situated one kilometer from the largest airport in Poland and offers air, ocean, trucking, warehousing and customs clearance services with specific expertise in the region. The office acts as a regional hub to control and manage all import and export activities for OWL’s customers who have their registered offices and management located in Warsaw.


“Not even a year has passed and OWL is opening its third office in Poland – this is obviously a thriving part of the world,” said Cord Brügge, managing director, Ocean World Lines Europe. “The first two offices are situated in the port cities of Gdynia and Szczecin, whereas Warsaw is located in the central part of Poland and is the biggest city with its population of 1.7 million citizens. We needed this location to be closer to our clients and to provide them with direct care on the highest level.”


The new Warsaw office is part of OWL’s continued expansion in Eastern Europe. “We are seeing more and more manufacturing in this region which has led to a shift in sourcing from Asia to Eastern European factories,” said Bruegge.


“By opening offices in Gdynia, Szczecin, and now Warsaw we are increasing the geographic locations our customers have to select from in one of the hottest economies in Europe,” said Bruegge. “When you look at how fast Poland is developing, our growing presence there will help us better serve our customers’ shipping needs and offer the most flexibility.”


The new office is located at: Ocean World Lines Poland Sp. z o.o., Sabały 58, 02-174 Warsaw, Poland


About Warsaw:

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly 260 kilometers (162 mi) from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometers (186 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of June 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,631,902. Warsaw is the 9th largest city in the European Union by population.

Warsaw is also known as the “phoenix city” as it recovered from extensive damage during World War II (during which 80% of its buildings were destroyed), being rebuilt with the effort of Polish citizens. Warsaw has given its name to the Warsaw Confederation, Warsaw Pact, the Duchy of Warsaw, Warsaw Convention, Treaty of Warsaw and the Warsaw Uprising.


About Ocean World Lines

Ocean World Lines, a subsidiary of Pacer International, is one of the largest fully bonded NVOCCs in the world. OWL, known in the industry by its iconic owl logo, 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 service. OWL offers a single source experience for its customers coupled with leading-edge technology for a truly value-based solution.


With over 250 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, Gdynia, Szczecin, Ipswich, Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, as well as a network of agents worldwide.


About Pacer International

Pacer International, a leading global door-to-door solutions provider, offers a broad array of services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination through its intermodal and logistics operating segments. The intermodal segment offers container capacity, integrated local transportation services, and door-to-door intermodal shipment management. The logistics segment provides truck brokerage, warehousing and distribution, international freight forwarding, and supply-chain management services. For more information on Pacer International visit www.pacer.com.

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