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and managing director of IMT. “With this mobile app, every customer will have roundthe-clock visibility over every asset anywhere in the world right on their mobile device.” IMT is planning to add further features to broaden its smart applications and strengthen its support and service to customers. “With each new app or new feature, we want to give our customers better access to vital data they need to control the supply chain more efficiently and to optimise asset utilisation in the logistics processes,” Drenth adds. www.intermodaltelematics.com RINCHEM GROWS IN KOREA
MOL, NICHICON FIRM PARTNERSHIP
MOL Logistics (MLG) and Nippon Concept (NCC) have agreed to establish a new tank container joint venture. The new company, MOL Logistics (Tank Containers), will deepen MOL Group’s business alliance with NCC, which operates under the Nichicon brand, and expand their partnership in global tank transport. MOL acquired a 15 per cent stake in NCC in 2018 and since then the two have shared overseas offices and business networks. The joint venture will extend this business alliance and, MOL says, further accelerate collaboration in business and cargo transport operations using tank containers. “Specifically, MLG will extensively intensify its agency business on NCC’s behalf, starting in Thailand and other major Asian countries showing tremendous growth in demand for chemical products, such as China and India,” MOL says. “In addition, by leveraging MOL and MLG’s networking capabilities, MLGTC will maximise the synergetic effects of NCC’s know-how and track record in door-to-door international multimodal transport services for liquid cargoes and various types of gas.” www.mol.co.jp www.n-concept.co.jp THIRD FOR MILKYWAY
Milkyway has formally opened its new Liaoning Kingman integrated logistics facility
in north-east China. The site offers a total of 12,000 m2 of warehouse space for all dangerous goods other than Classes 1 and 7, as well as general non-hazardous chemicals. It also provides specific dust-free and temperaturecontrolled zones and a space for small samples. The facility also provides cleaning, maintenance and inspection of tank containers, rail tank cars, IBCs and other containers. The new Kingman facility is Milkyway’s third new logistics site in China and is located on the Liaodong Peninsula, offering easy access to industrial customers in the region. Liaoning is also a vital node in the ‘Belt and Road’ strategy. It is expected to strengthen the petrochemical supply chain based around Xianren Island and covering the three provinces of north-east China. www.mwclg.com IMT KEEPS TABS ON FLEET
Intermodal Telematics (IMT) is expanding its telematics applications with the new IMT Fleets app, which allows customers to have a clear overview of their fleets on a mobile device, with information on location and, depending on the sensors fitted, the temperature and pressure of the cargo. “The IMT Fleets App fits perfectly with IMT’s philosophy of making data efficiently available to our customers and thus making fleet management even more optimised and transparent,” says Dethmer Drenth, founder
Rinchem is close to finalising an expansion of its chemical logistics centre on Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Two new buildings on the campus will offer more than 3,500 pallet positions for goods of Divisions 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 and will, like the rest of the facility, be optimised for efficiency and safety. Ken Breinholt, president of Rinchem International, says: “We look forward to better serving our customers as we expand our warehouse solutions to meet customer demand. Rinchem is dedicated to global growth as we challenge ourselves to regularly innovate and improve.” The Pyeongtaek site handles both dangerous and non-dangerous goods, with temperaturecontrolled zones and both bonded and non-bonded operations. It can handle Korean dangerous goods classes 3, 4 and 5, and IMDG classes 3, 4, 5, 6.1, 8 and 9. www.rinchem.com ON TIME WITH TALKE
Talke is introducing a time slot booking system at its sites in Germany, as part of a continual process of improving efficiencies in day-to-day operations. The new process, which applies to both deliveries and collections, has already been introduced at its logistics facilities in Hürth, Knapsack and Köln and will be added at the warehouse and container terminal at Hürth very shortly. Talke says the result of the time slot booking system, which is administered through Cargoclix, will be quicker service on site for drivers and forwarding agents, better planning for clients, and a constant overview of the status of
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