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Founders Nedexco Logistics and Van Uden launch new company
ROTTERDAM - There is a new venture in temperature controlled logistics chain starts: Van Uden Chilled & Frozen. This latest offshoot of leading logistics provider Van Uden is new, but nevertheless extremely knowledgeable in the field of conditioned transport. The company works with an experienced quality team that is fully ready to start fresh products, fresh, deep frozen and safely to their destination to carry.
The company is a joint venture between Van Uden and some old veterans of Nedexco Logistics LBV, which on Monday, March 19 was declared bankrupt. Johan Reitsma, Jacques van der Heijden, both founders of Nedexco Logistics BV in 1994, will bring their expertise from Nedexco. Van Uden provides all back office and of course an enormous network.
Director Diederik Antvelink of van Uden was very happy with their new partners to start: "For us it is strategically important to consider this specialty in-house. With years of experience of Johan and Jacques we have at once made a big step. "
Jacques is also enthusiastic: "I estimate that within a year more than 100 crossings per week in the UK have. We put before a number of ‘bus’ on. These are dedicated combinations on fixed routes 24 hours 7 days a week between production location and DC driving up and down. addition, we are already busy bus routes from the continent to Britain. "
Roderick de la Houssaye, also director of Uden estimates that sales in 2013 may reach 12 million if all predictions that are made.
Van Uden Chilled & Frozen starts with the first transport on 18 June 2012 and focuses on the European market and especially in Britain, Benelux, France and Germany, an extensive and reliable network of support services, including shipping and storage and transshipment.
In order to guarantee quality preservation and hygiene of temperature sensitive products under way, Van Uden Chilled & Frozen modern facilities and ICT, as a fleet of thermoelectric, refrigerated trucks which determine the position and temperature (from -25 to +25 degrees) to remotely monitor. Through an online track and trace program also offers the customer during the ride access to this tracking system.The company offers various forms of distribution and transport, including national and international food and non-food, container, smaller and combined shipments.
Van Uden, which specializes in sustainable logistics and international transport of food, beverage and retail, consider the services of Van Uden Chilled & Frozen as a very valuable addition to the wide and varied range of logistics services that the group now in house. The merging of logistics services in a Van Uden can be streamlined for the customer, tight supply chain creation. That way, customers with more complex questions can not transport with different service providers to knock, but they can just at a point of contact, as well as temperature conditioned transport.
Another advantage is that Van Uden the customer as a stable partner in refrigerated transport can offer. The economic crisis, several smaller companies in thermoelectric, refrigerated transport in recent years to make room. This makes it difficult for customers at the time a service provider in this mode to find which one long-term transportation contracts can go. Van Uden Chilled & Frozen provides that continuity can, because this company is firmly embedded within the larger Van Uden, which for over 160 years successfully manages to survive in the market for transport and logistics.
