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HANSA MAYER, ROLIPROJECTS FORM PARTNERSHIP
Based in Houston, ‘Heart of US Industrial Project Market’ Logistics providers Hansa Meyer Global Transport and RoliProjects have formed a new joint venture based in Houston, Texas. Hansa Meyer RoliProjects will serve the North American project logistics markets and their related cargo owners, EPC operators and suppliers, the companies said in a statement. Germany-based Hansa Meyer Global Transport, with its network of 22 subsidiaries, has been a legal entity in the U.S. since 2010, but sold its shares in its operational and asset-based companies in 2021. RoliProjects is a trademark of international project cargo handler, Rohde & Liesenfeld. “We feel thrilled about our strategy to combine our groups know-how, capacity and contacts and to set up a
Hansa Meyer making hard turns look easy from Texas to New Mexico. CREDIT: HMG
brand-new company in Houston, the heart of the U.S. industrial project market, and to combine our forces,” said Jan-Dirk Schuisdziara, managing shareholder at Hansa Meyer Global.
Business development at the JV will be overseen by Julie Shafer, who has previously worked for GE Transport, Geodis and Rohde & Liesenfeld. BBONE
MAERSK CLINCHES DEAL FOR SENATOR INTERNATIONAL US$644 Million Deal Boosts Firm’s Air Freight Capacity A.P. Moller - Maersk has completed the purchase of freight forwarder Senator International, as the Danish shipping firm seeks to strengthen its air transport capacity. The value of the purchase on a post-IFRS 16 basis was about US$644 million, Maersk said. The carrier had announced its intention to buy the forwarder in November. Senator, founded almost 40 years ago in Hamburg, focuses on air and sea freight as well as on logistics, packaging and customs handling. Its services include project forwarding and heavy and special haulage. The forwarder’s air freight operations accounted for about 65 percent of its revenue in 2020. “As a global provider of integrated logistics, we are improving our ability
to provide end-to-end solutions to our customers,” said Vincent Clerc, CEO of ocean and logistics at Maersk. “With Senator on board, we are ramping up our air freight capacity, network, and know-how significantly to cater even better for our customers.” Maersk in April launched an air freight division, Maersk Air Cargo. The carrier aims to have one-third of
the annual air tonnage carried within its own controlled freight network, which it will do through a combination of owned and leased aircraft. The remaining capacity will be provided by strategic commercial carriers and charter flight operators, it said. Maersk will use Denmark’s secondlargest airport, Billund, as its European air freight hub. BBONE Air freight represented about 65 percent of Senator International’s revenue in 2020. CREDIT: SENATOR
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