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<strong>world</strong><br />
magazine<br />
1/2005
content 3<br />
editorial<br />
Ccreativity is the driving force of innovation and growth.<br />
But there can be no creativity unless we seek and follow<br />
new paths, the pioneering Swiss balloonist<br />
Bertrand Piccard recently said in an impressive guest lecture at<br />
our headquarters in Schindellegi. Piccard should know. Despite<br />
some contrary winds, six years ago he was the first person to<br />
make a non-stop circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon. We<br />
should not like to deprive you of the chance to learn about his<br />
philosophy, and you can read about it in an article in this issue.<br />
Creativity, likewise, has always occupied an important position<br />
at <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>. For many years we have distinguished ourselves<br />
by our innovation in all fields of logistics. Not least in the<br />
airfreight sector: <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> is the first and so far only logistics<br />
company to be certified <strong>world</strong>wide according to phase two of<br />
the quality management programme Cargo 2000. This initiative<br />
optimises the transparency of air cargo processes. Our customers<br />
benefit from greater realiability and quality of delivery based on<br />
interactive, IT-based procedures.<br />
With the introduction of time-defined air cargo products we<br />
will strengthen our position in the global air cargo business and<br />
reach out to new horizons. You will find details of Cargo 2000<br />
and our new product trio in the focus article of this issue.<br />
Piccard’s aim, he said, is not so much to break records as to<br />
open up horizons. But records are also the expression of the<br />
force that drives a company forward. One excellent example is<br />
shown by our report on the biggest heavy lift component ever<br />
transported in southern Africa.<br />
We have also taken new paths with this issue of “World<br />
Magazine”. It appears in a new design and a different format.<br />
I wish you an enjoyable read.<br />
Yours<br />
editorial Klaus Herms 02<br />
round the <strong>world</strong> Roaring out of the garage 04<br />
Belanak Natuna 04<br />
Growing the network 04<br />
Dream paintings in Schindellegi 05<br />
On the road with a stonecrusher 05<br />
World altitude record 05<br />
focus Quality management has a new name 06<br />
“What you see is what you get” 08<br />
interview<br />
Silke Gottschlich,<br />
Manager Business Development<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Shanghai<br />
From Schindellegi to Shanghai 12<br />
inside Strong performance 14<br />
project transports The colossus of Richards Bay 16<br />
industrial packing A strong box 18<br />
people A philospher of the air and of life 20<br />
The logistics elite meets for an<br />
exchange of ideas 22<br />
Opening ceremony in Salzburg 22<br />
Scotch for <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> 22<br />
Bonjour la France 23<br />
Schoolmates 23<br />
IMPRINT<br />
Klaus Herms<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
Published by <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> International AG, P.O. Box 67, CH-8834 Schindellegi<br />
phone +41 (0)44 786 95 11, fax +41 (0)44 786 95 95, e-mail: <strong>world</strong>@kuehne-nagel.com<br />
Design/layout: Rittmann AG, CH-4002 Basel; printed at Birkhaeuser + GBC AG, CH-4153 Reinach<br />
World Magazine (print run 30,000) is published several times a year in German and English.
News from<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong><br />
Belanak Natuna<br />
Roaring out of the garage<br />
NOSTALGIC FEELINGS. Motor sport fans get filmy eyes<br />
and fall into raptures when they start talking about the legendary<br />
“<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Porsche Carrera 2.7 RS”. And their enthusiasm<br />
knows no bounds when they hear the sound of the<br />
engine. This is precisely what they were able to do when the<br />
famous racer, now more than 30 years old, was presented to<br />
the public by <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> in its logistics facility at Stuttgart-Gärtringen<br />
in April 2005.<br />
The car’s history is closely linked with <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Stuttgart<br />
and the East African Safari<br />
Rally. At the beginning of the seventies<br />
the Porsche engineers wanted<br />
to test their works cars in the East<br />
African Safari Rally, but at that time<br />
had only a limited budget at their<br />
disposal. <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> spontaneously<br />
agreed to sponsor them, in<br />
return for which the cars carried the<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> logo.<br />
PROJECT LOGISTICS. <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>’s project divisions<br />
in Houston, Singapore and Beijing played a crucial<br />
role in the punctual completion of one of the biggest special<br />
ships for offshore oil and gas production in the Asian region.<br />
285 m long and 58 m wide, the “Belanak Natuna”<br />
operates as an FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and<br />
Offloading) ship. It is named after its place of deployment in<br />
the South China Sea in the Belanak area to the south of the<br />
Natuna archipelago. The vessel has living quarters for 120 personnel and, with a storage capacity of 225,000<br />
tonnes, serves as a floating oil refinery. <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> was responsible for the delivery of all components of the<br />
gigantic ship’s hull and process topsides from many different parts of the <strong>world</strong>. Construction of the hull began at<br />
a shipyard in Dalian in northern China. The integration of the 25,000 tonnes of process topsides – involving several<br />
complex operations – was carried out on Batam Island, offshore from Singapore.<br />
Growing<br />
the network<br />
Dream paintings<br />
in Schindellegi<br />
VISIONARY ART. In April and May the<br />
“atmospheric landscapes and skyscapes”<br />
of the famous Dutch artist Luc<br />
Leestemaker were on show in the <strong>Kuehne</strong><br />
+ <strong>Nagel</strong> company headquarters in Schindellegi.<br />
“My paintings are a reflection of<br />
my dreams,” the artist stated at the vernissage<br />
in Schindellegi. The Dutchman’s<br />
suggestively spiritual paintings are a testimony<br />
to a visionary power, an organic<br />
force of the kind that also<br />
drives a company like <strong>Kuehne</strong><br />
+ <strong>Nagel</strong> to ever higher<br />
peaks of achievement.<br />
EXPANSION. <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>’s network continues to<br />
grow apace. The Group’s German organisation acquired<br />
the IDS partner Gebr. Mönkemöller GmbH & Co,<br />
Bielefeld, in May this year. Almost at the same time, <strong>Kuehne</strong><br />
+ <strong>Nagel</strong> increased its share in WM Group subsidiary and IDS partner WM Cargonet<br />
GmbH & Co. KG, Bocholt, taking complete control of the company with retroactive effect<br />
from January 1, 2005. With these new acquisitions, and the purchase of the Häring Service<br />
Company and Pracht Spedition back in 2004, <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> is now the largest partner in the German<br />
IDS groupage services network, accounting for 27 per cent of all IDS shipments.<br />
round the <strong>world</strong> 5<br />
On the road with a stonecrusher<br />
FROM SINGAPORE TO KUALA<br />
LUMPUR. More than 52 tonnes<br />
was the weight of the giant<br />
stonecrushing machine which<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Malaysia transported<br />
by land from the port of Singapore<br />
to a remote quarry roughly<br />
50 km from the Malaysian capital.<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> was responsible for<br />
the logistical preparations, safe<br />
transport including accompaniment, and the handling of the customs formalities.<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> took charge of the machine, which cost roughly USD<br />
630,000, at the terminal of the Port of Singapore Authority where it was<br />
loaded for overland transport onto a Goldhofer multi-axled trailer.<br />
From there the way to the quarry followed a long, bumpy and<br />
poorly maintained gravel road.<br />
Problems arose shortly just before the final destination. The<br />
last hundred metres were too steep for the multi-axled<br />
trailer to negotiate. The stonecrusher therefore had to be<br />
unloaded from the trailer over a temporary ramp built<br />
from sand. The imposing caterpillar vehicle travelled<br />
the last few metres to its final destination under its<br />
own power.<br />
World altitude record<br />
ON THE VOLCANO. At the end of January, as part<br />
of a seismological expedition, a VW Touareg reached<br />
an altitude of 6,081 m (19,950 ft), the highest ever attained<br />
by a production car, and thus assured itself of a place<br />
in the Guinness Book of Records. As sponsor of the logistics<br />
and transport costs and services of the expedition<br />
headed by Rainer Zietlow, <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> also played a part in<br />
this achievement. On<br />
29 January 2005, on the<br />
steep slopes of Ojos de Salado<br />
on the border between Argentina<br />
and Chile, the team driving the<br />
unmodified SUV had to contend with icy winds<br />
and a lack of oxygen that tested them to the limit.<br />
Ojos del Salado is the highest volcano in the <strong>world</strong> and belongs to a volcanic<br />
mountain group in the Atacama desert in northern Chile, a zone<br />
which is subject to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The purpose<br />
of the expedition was to install a 40 kg seismographic station at the<br />
summit of the volcano.
focus 7<br />
Quality management has a new name<br />
Cargo 2000 has opened a new chapter in the history of airfreight.<br />
What is<br />
Cargo 2000?<br />
Cargo 2000 is an IATA interest<br />
group which brings together some 30<br />
major airlines, freight forwarders and<br />
ground handling agents with the uni-<br />
Despite growing turnovers in the<br />
sector, airfreight forwarding is<br />
under pressure. Only solutions<br />
authorities were an unpredictable factor<br />
in every transport operation.<br />
But the needs of trade and industry<br />
lity standards for airfreight transport and<br />
laying down standardised operational procedures<br />
with checkpoints. Transparency<br />
In phase one, 4,000 routes between 65<br />
cities have now been certified, compared<br />
with only 400 a year ago. The number of<br />
able to plan and monitor door-to-door<br />
airfreight shipments on an automated basis<br />
according to C2K criteria.<br />
que goal of implementing a new quality<br />
management system with uniform<br />
standards for the <strong>world</strong>wide air cargo<br />
with a customer-oriented approach can<br />
have changed. Just-in-time and minimal<br />
was enhanced by reducing the number of<br />
Master Air Waybills made out in accor-<br />
The following article shows how the<br />
industry. The biggest concerted quali-<br />
secure the future of the business. And<br />
inventories are now the order of the day.<br />
process steps from 40 to 19. This is the<br />
dance with Cargo 2000 now stands at<br />
company is meeting this challenge in a<br />
ty campaign in the history of airfreight<br />
customers demand reliability and trans-<br />
Complex multinational procurement and<br />
core of the Cargo 2000 (C2K) programme.<br />
60,000 per month. This corresponds to<br />
highly innovative manner and is also tur-<br />
has so far given birth to C2K phases<br />
parency.<br />
distribution systems demand a high de-<br />
250,000 house waybills. By the end of this<br />
ning it into a product offensive in order to<br />
one and two: post shipment audit of<br />
For many years the desire for freedom<br />
gree of precision, plannability, punctuali-<br />
Three introductory phases<br />
year, all airfreight shipments in Amster-<br />
offer its customers solutions tailored to<br />
the airport-to-airport movement and<br />
and lust for adventure was a driving force<br />
ty and reliability, from ordering and pro-<br />
Three introductory phases are planned.<br />
dam, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hong Kong,<br />
their future needs.<br />
interactive monitoring of the door-to-<br />
for all who were involved in aviation. Im-<br />
duction right through to the end consu-<br />
The first provides for post shipment audit<br />
London, Milan, Paris, Seoul, Singapore,<br />
door movement. Phase three, real-<br />
provisation and creativity were in de-<br />
mer. Creativity is all well and good, but<br />
of the airport-to-airport movement, the se-<br />
Tokyo, Toronto and Vienna will be pro-<br />
time transport management of the<br />
mand. In the air cargo business they play-<br />
when the product is delivered its quality<br />
cond for interactive planning and monito-<br />
cessed in accordance with Cargo 2000<br />
transportation channel at individual<br />
ed an important role and were not consi-<br />
must be as ordered.<br />
ring of the door-to-door movement, while<br />
guidelines.<br />
piece level from door to door, is cur-<br />
dered out of place. Every flight was diffe-<br />
Forwarders, airlines and handling<br />
the third provides for real-time manage-<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> is the only logistics<br />
rently in the development stage.<br />
rent. No airport functioned in the same<br />
agents therefore got together some years<br />
ment of the door-to-door transportation at<br />
provider to be certified <strong>world</strong>wide in ac-<br />
way as another. The customs and other<br />
ago with the aim of defining uniform qua-<br />
an individual piece level.<br />
cordance with phase two. That means it is
focus 9<br />
“What you see is<br />
what you get”<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>'s airfreight division will introduce a product trio with differential<br />
transit times at all-inclusive rates. Based on the Cargo 2000 quality management<br />
programme, it will make door-to-door air transport more reliable.<br />
Marcel Fujike, whose job in any<br />
case makes him a frequent<br />
flier, is now jetting round the<br />
fore be made familiar with KN Express,<br />
KN Expert and KN Extend.<br />
At customer and staff workshops held<br />
go 2000 (known internally as C2K). The<br />
globally standardised C2K programme is<br />
integrated into <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>'s IT plat-<br />
<strong>world</strong> more often than ever. The task that<br />
in all parts of the <strong>world</strong>, Fujike and his<br />
form and ensures dependable and measur-<br />
is demanding so much extra commit-<br />
team give systematic instruction on all fa-<br />
able airfreight processes. Its core function<br />
ment from the airfreight division's pro-<br />
cets of the air cargo portfolio, including<br />
is the automatic generation of consign-<br />
duct developer is the preparatory work<br />
the latest additions. A key feature of the<br />
ment-specific route maps from shipper to<br />
for the introduction of three door-to-<br />
workshops is that they also give customers<br />
consignee with clearly defined check-<br />
door products in a completely new form.<br />
the opportunity to make suggestions for<br />
points, continuous transport monitoring<br />
They are to be marketed under the na-<br />
improvements, to exercise constructive<br />
and comparison, accurate to the minute,<br />
mes KN Express, KN Expert and KN Ex-<br />
criticism and to submit ideas for solutions.<br />
between “planned” and “actual” journey<br />
tend. They differ in the length of their<br />
After practical testing on the first seven<br />
times at every checkpoint.<br />
transit times: one to three days for KN<br />
routes, in the autumn eight stations are to<br />
All parties to the transport process are<br />
Express, three to five for KN Expert and<br />
be interlinked. By multiplication, the test<br />
integrated into the data flow throughout<br />
more than five days for KN Extend. A<br />
will thus be extended to 56 routes. Kueh-<br />
the life of the shipment. Any deviation<br />
new feature is the transparent price basis.<br />
ne + <strong>Nagel</strong>'s airfreight network comprises<br />
from the defined transport plan triggers<br />
Fujike defines the principle with this sim-<br />
more than 300 bases. When, after the<br />
an automatic warning. This enables those<br />
ple formula: “What you see is what you<br />
completion of the rollout, all of them are<br />
concerned to take prompt corrective mea-<br />
get.” Irrespective of what product the cu-<br />
linked up, the new products will be availa-<br />
sures.<br />
stomer wants to ship.<br />
ble throughout the <strong>world</strong>.<br />
Implementation of the C2K project is<br />
Starting in July, the new product fami-<br />
divided into three implementation pha-<br />
ly will be tested on seven international<br />
Transparency is trumps<br />
ses: post shipment audit of the airport-to-<br />
routes. The first phase will involve the<br />
Today, trade and industry demand very<br />
airport movement, interactive monitoring<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> stations in the three re-<br />
high standards from logistics providers.<br />
of the door-to-door movement at a house<br />
BREAKING THE ICE. Based on Cargo 2000 <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> guarantees the<br />
gions of North America (Atlanta, Chica-<br />
They expect total visibility of the trans-<br />
waybill level, and real-time management<br />
interactive planning and control of the entire door-to-door logistics chain.<br />
go), the Far East (Tokyo) and Europe<br />
port chain. <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> offers such<br />
of the transportation channel at individu-<br />
(Amsterdam, Paris, London, Nuremberg,<br />
supply chain transparency from source to<br />
al piece level. The first phase was already<br />
Stuttgart). Before the launch of the test,<br />
destination, based on modern IT tools<br />
implemented by <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> some<br />
all these stations’ employees must there-<br />
and the quality management system Car-<br />
time ago. Phase two has so far been intro-
focus 11<br />
SEAMLESS PROCESS CHAIN. The standardised C2K programme which is integrated in <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>’s IT system...<br />
...ensures reliable, measurable and transparent airfreight processes, from the shipper through to the consignee.<br />
duced only by <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>. Phase<br />
logistics chain is being raised ever higher.<br />
der. For 43 per cent, reliability ranks high-<br />
three is still in preparation.<br />
Only by rational procedures that maximi-<br />
est. This is followed by the transport price<br />
In order to implement phase two,<br />
se their efficiency can customers stand up<br />
(27 per cent) and the transit time (19 per<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> had to make both inter-<br />
to the harsh winds of competition.<br />
cent). Customer service, network density<br />
nal and external changes. According to<br />
The customer passes on the pressure to<br />
and technical and administrative conside-<br />
Fujike, the forwarder now generates a<br />
his airfreight forwarder. His service must<br />
rations play a relatively minor role with<br />
route map for every consignment – more<br />
than 100,000 route maps per month, and<br />
offer first-class value all round, or in other<br />
words it must be reliable, economically<br />
six, four and one per cent. With the new<br />
product series KN Express, KN Expert<br />
Cargo 2000 in Practice<br />
this figure is rising rapidly. On the basis of<br />
priced, fast and transparent.<br />
and KN Extend, <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> is res-<br />
multiple shipments per route, each week<br />
ponding to the result of this study. The<br />
the company handles an average of 2,000<br />
The key to success<br />
customer is given a clear undertaking on<br />
COMPUTER TOMOGRAPH. <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> receives a<br />
VACCINES. <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> receives an order from the<br />
consolidated direct consignments to<br />
The key to success has a name: visibili-<br />
the matter of service. Shipping becomes<br />
transport order from the German high-tech manufacturer<br />
Swedish vaccine producer SBL to transport cholera vaccines<br />
150 destinations. Their volume adds up to<br />
ty. “Who needs visibility in logistics,” Fu-<br />
plannable for him in terms of time and<br />
Siemens in Erlangen (24 February 2005, 16:00). A computer<br />
to a pharmaceutical company in Canada at a temperature of<br />
27,500 individual consignments weighing<br />
jike asks provokingly, and immediately<br />
costs. With the new products, <strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
tomograph has to be shipped to Groves in the US state of<br />
+2 to +8°C. The carrier is KLM Cargo. The goods are packed<br />
11,500 t. This corresponds to the capacity<br />
comes up with the answer: “Everyone!”<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong> is again confirming its position as a<br />
Texas. KLM is the carrier, one of the prime movers in the<br />
in an Envirotainer dry-ice container and shipped from Stock-<br />
of 110 Boeing 747 jumbo freighters per<br />
His arguments stand to reason: What<br />
leader of innovation in a highly competi-<br />
Cargo 2000 initiative. After <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> has drawn up the<br />
holm (Sweden) via Amsterdam to Toronto (Canada), from<br />
week.<br />
we cannot see we cannot measure; what<br />
tive market.<br />
route map with the airline in accordance with C2K standards,<br />
where they are delivered to the end customer. The special<br />
Globalisation has given rise to com-<br />
we cannot measure we cannot check: what<br />
the various legs of the journey and the accompanying docu-<br />
feature of this shipment: For the first time, on the basis of C2K<br />
plex, internationally meshed procure-<br />
we cannot check swallows up money.<br />
mentation begin to fit seamlessly together.<br />
standards, the temperatures inside the airfreight container are<br />
ment, production and distribution net-<br />
And, of course, nobody knows how much.<br />
All stages of the logistics chain, from the preparation of the<br />
seamlessly recorded and are fed into the <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> IT<br />
works. Largely due to shrinking product<br />
But we do know what criteria the custo-<br />
tomograph for transport and its collection from Siemens<br />
system at the various transit checkpoints and made visible in<br />
life cycles, the bar for the supporting<br />
mer applies when placing an airfreight or-<br />
(2 March, 10:00) to its delivery at the Renaissance Hospital in<br />
real time for all who are involved in the process.<br />
Groves (7 March, 11:07) and its assembly by Siemens en-<br />
In the event of a temperature deviation it would have been<br />
gineers, are meticulously monitored and compared with the<br />
possible to take corrective measures at the control point.<br />
CHECKPOINT. The new C2K stan-<br />
“planned” status after each leg of the journey. To sum up, the<br />
“This is a big advance, for temperature variations formerly be-<br />
dards make the on-line tracking of<br />
computer tomograph started its journey five hours earlier than<br />
came apparent only at the end of the journey when the contai-<br />
temperature fluctuations inside<br />
planned (13:00) and arrived at its final destination 53 minutes<br />
ner was opened and data read,” said Marcel Fujike.<br />
the airfreight container possible.<br />
before the scheduled time despite a setback due to the<br />
“Customers want their freight to be transported under ideal<br />
weather (take-off from Amsterdam airport delayed by one<br />
conditions throughout the transport chain. This particularly<br />
day). The result: a satisfied customer.<br />
applies to the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector. By analysing<br />
logged temperature data at several checkpoints, we<br />
can now ensure a high degree of transparency so that customers<br />
can always be certain their freight is ‘in good health’.”
Silke Gottschlich,<br />
Manager Business Development<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Shanghai<br />
interview 13<br />
From<br />
Schindellegi<br />
to<br />
Shanghai<br />
Living and working in Shanghai.<br />
Silke Gottschlich, who<br />
has been responsible for the<br />
development of the contract logistics<br />
business at the <strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong> subsidiary in Shanghai since<br />
January of this year, describes<br />
her first experiences and impressions<br />
in Asia's glittering<br />
metropolis.<br />
Ms Gottschlich, what induced you to move<br />
from Schindellegi to Shanghai?<br />
First and foremost the new professional<br />
and personal challenge. After more than<br />
three years in the corporate development<br />
department in Schindellegi, I wanted to<br />
move to the operational side of business in<br />
a national company. Apart from the exciting<br />
professional prospects, I was attracted<br />
by the whole idea of Shanghai and the<br />
pulsating life of a big city. My present job<br />
is the development of contract logistics, or<br />
in other words the development of our<br />
warehousing and distribution activities in<br />
China. The experience I gathered during<br />
my time in Schindellegi is a great help, but<br />
I also have to deal with many new technical<br />
and, above all, specifically regional<br />
and cultural aspects.<br />
Could you describe some of your impressions<br />
after your first few months in the<br />
city?<br />
In the past ten years Shanghai has probably<br />
developed faster than any other city in<br />
the <strong>world</strong>, also in the architectural sense.<br />
On the one hand there are ultra-modern<br />
skyscrapers, and on the other hand it still<br />
has a Chinese flair with narrow streets<br />
and alleys, Chinese markets, hot food stalls<br />
etc. It has an enormously rich cultural life,<br />
and when it comes to culinary diversity<br />
Shanghai leaves no wish unfulfilled. I personally<br />
hope that the city will not completely<br />
lose its original character.<br />
Do you travel much?<br />
Yes. After a short introductory phase in<br />
Shanghai I have done a great deal of travelling.<br />
Up till now mainly in northern<br />
China, in Beijing and Tianjin. I also look<br />
after projects of our branches in Dalian<br />
and Qingdao – both of them very beautiful<br />
but still little-known cities of more<br />
than a million people. I have also made a<br />
number of private weekend trips and have<br />
plans for more – the terra cotta army in<br />
Xi'an is high on my priority list.<br />
Silke Gottschlich<br />
• Graduation 1997 from Schloss Salem<br />
boarding school, Germany<br />
• Study of business administration and<br />
corporate management at the Graduate<br />
School of Management (WHU) in Vallendar<br />
near Koblenz, with semesters spent abroad<br />
at HEC Montreal and the Copenhagen<br />
Business School<br />
• Degree in business studies and start at<br />
the company headquarters of <strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong> in Schindellegi in the corporate development<br />
division in December 2001<br />
• Move to <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Shanghai in January<br />
2005, with responsibility for Contract<br />
Logistics Business Development in China<br />
How do you get on in your daily work with<br />
customers and staff?<br />
I greatly enjoy working with our contract<br />
logistics team, most of whom are Chinese,<br />
and the <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> people in other<br />
branches. Since all my colleagues speak<br />
good English, we have few communication<br />
problems internally. Things are somewhat<br />
more difficult when I have to deal with customers,<br />
some of whom speak little English<br />
or none at all. Then I have to rely on the<br />
interpreting skills of my colleagues. That's<br />
one of the main reasons why I am taking<br />
two to three Chinese lessons per week.<br />
What do you want to achieve during your<br />
time in the Far East?<br />
I can well imagine spending a few more<br />
years in Asia. Above all I would like<br />
to gain further professional expertise.<br />
Compared with the European and<br />
American standard, the Chinese logistics<br />
market is still in its infancy. But the<br />
potential for growth is enormous. As a<br />
result of its strong position in sea- and<br />
airfreight, <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> is excellently<br />
positioned to successfully develop this<br />
field of business in China in the coming<br />
years, and I should like to play a part in<br />
shaping it.<br />
And what do you miss most of all?<br />
Above all, being close to nature. In Shanghai<br />
there is hardly any possibility of taking<br />
outdoor exercise. It is not like Switzerland,<br />
where you can simply take a trip<br />
into the country or the mountains when<br />
you feel like it.
VOTE. The shareholders present<br />
approved all proposals by a clear<br />
majority.<br />
inside 15<br />
ess fields and emphasised that on a turnover/earnings<br />
ratio, <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong><br />
leads the market.<br />
Klaus-Michael <strong>Kuehne</strong> also commented<br />
on the increased free float, which led<br />
to a favourable stimulation of trade with<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> shares and also supported<br />
last year’s above average share price<br />
development.<br />
Strong performance<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> International AG shares perform<br />
well. The course for further growth is set.<br />
At the Annual General Meeting of<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> International<br />
AG, held on May 2 this year at<br />
the company’s headquarters in Schindellegi/Switzerland,<br />
75 per cent of voting<br />
shares were represented. The shareholders<br />
approved all proposals by a clear majority.<br />
In his address, Klaus-Michael <strong>Kuehne</strong>,<br />
Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors,<br />
expressed his pleasure at the excellent<br />
development in turnover and earnings<br />
the Group achieved in the business<br />
year 2004, and acknowledged the performance<br />
and commitment of the<br />
Management Board and employees<br />
<strong>world</strong>wide.<br />
He then discribed the global competitive<br />
positions of the Group’s core busin-<br />
Good start to the business year 2005<br />
With a 17 per cent increase in turnover to CHF 3,027.3 million<br />
and the operational result (EBITA) up 18.4 per cent to<br />
CHF 97.9 million, <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>, the globally operating logistics<br />
group, has made a successful start to the business year 2005.<br />
Net earnings rose 45.7 per cent versus last year to CHF 69.5 million.<br />
Due to the adoption of the accounting principles IFRS 3,<br />
CHF 12.8 million higher net earnings were reported.<br />
Continuous optimisation<br />
Klaus Herms, Chief Executive Officer,<br />
illustrated the performance and strategic<br />
objectives of the respective business<br />
units. In the future, too, the continual<br />
optimisation of products and services<br />
as well as the customer-oriented business<br />
policy will set the course for further<br />
growth in turnover and earnings.<br />
The shareholders approved the<br />
Annual Report, the Financial Statements,<br />
the Consolidated Financial Statements<br />
for 2004, and the increased dividend<br />
of CHF 4.50 (previous year<br />
CHF 3.50). The dividend (40 per cent of<br />
the consolidated net income) was paid<br />
out on May 6, 2005.<br />
The Annual General Meeting granted<br />
discharge to the members of the Board of<br />
Directors and Management Board for the<br />
business year 2004.<br />
The business unit Sea & Air Logistics continued its dynamic<br />
growth in the first three months of the year. Transport volumes in<br />
sea and airfreight increased twice as much as the market<br />
average. Capacity utilisation in Rail and Road Logistics remained<br />
good, leading to a 29 per cent increase in gross profit in that<br />
area. Contract Logistics reported an increase in margius and<br />
thus a 6.1 per cent growth in gross profit.<br />
Messrs Bruno Salzmann and Bernd<br />
Wrede stood for re-election to the supervisory<br />
board and were each confirmed for<br />
a further three years. Mr Hans Lerch was<br />
newly elected to the Board of Directors<br />
for a three-year term. Hans Lerch was President<br />
of the Executive Board and Chief<br />
Executive Officer of Kuoni Travel Holding<br />
Ltd., and is now a member of its<br />
Board of Directors.<br />
The Annual General Meeting also<br />
agreed to the Board of Directors’ proposal<br />
to create conditional capital of up to a<br />
maximum of CHF 12 million. This<br />
measure provides <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> with<br />
the necessary flexibility to finance strategic<br />
investments.<br />
The next Annual General Meeting<br />
will be held on May 2, 2006.<br />
Financial statements<br />
2004 2003<br />
Turnover 11,563.1 9,548.0 +21.1%<br />
Gross profit 2,322.5 2,064.3 +11.4%<br />
EBITA 390.2 315.9 +23.5%<br />
Net earnings 240.8 195.7 +22.7%<br />
Staff 21,193 19,004 +11.5%
A CANDIDATE FOR THE GUINNESS BOOK<br />
OF RECORDS. The 480-tonne heavy lift<br />
component with a length of 64 metres and<br />
a diameter of 9 metres in the port of<br />
Richards Bay.<br />
project transports 17<br />
The colossus of<br />
Richards Bay<br />
The South African port was the pivotal point for the<br />
transport of the biggest heavy lift item ever shipped to<br />
Africa. The operation was managed by <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>.<br />
Like a giant millipede or an enormous<br />
reptile from the age of the<br />
dinosaurs, the 480-tonne splitter<br />
supervision of marine surveyors the two<br />
giant components, lashed onto steel<br />
stools, were transferred to two barges and<br />
Throughout their journey the vehicles<br />
were accompanied by employees of the<br />
local telephone and electricity authori-<br />
planning, the consolidation of the material<br />
and plant components from all over<br />
the <strong>world</strong> and their delivery to a total of<br />
two gigantic splitters for the new refinery<br />
in Secunda from their place of construction<br />
in India. The preparations for this<br />
with a length of 64 metres and a diameter<br />
subsequently transported by water to the<br />
ties, who had to temporarily lift the tele-<br />
six industrial sites in Secunda and Sasol-<br />
part of the job began in March of last<br />
of 9 metres crept at a snail's pace on mul-<br />
port of Mumbai, where the units were<br />
phone and power lines that crossed the<br />
burg, is in the hands of the Project Divi-<br />
year with weekly meetings with the main<br />
ti-axle special trailers from the South<br />
hoisted by the vessel's own two derricks<br />
roads. Civil engineering specialists had<br />
sion of <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Johannesburg.<br />
parties, namely the project owner Sasol<br />
African port of Richards Bay to the indus-<br />
onto a special ship belonging to Jumbo<br />
reinforced the bridges on the route, but<br />
and the principal engineering contractors<br />
trial site at Secunda in the province of<br />
Shipping which was chartered for the pur-<br />
these had to be checked by inspectors<br />
International teamwork<br />
Fluor Daniel, Sunninghill (South Africa)<br />
Mpumalanga.<br />
pose by <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>. The voyage<br />
before every crossing. The rearguard of<br />
Together with a team of project specia-<br />
and Kellogg Brown & Root from<br />
A second splitter unit, albeit only half<br />
across the Indian Ocean to Richards Bay<br />
the cavalcade was formed by an ambu-<br />
lists from the <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> offices in<br />
Houston Texas (USA).<br />
as big and heavy, followed immediately<br />
took 13 days.<br />
JUMBO SHIPPING. The enormous<br />
lance, a tanker truck with water to cool<br />
Hamburg, Houston, Paris and Tokyo,<br />
Another major challenge was to orga-<br />
behind it. Hundreds of spectators lined<br />
splitter occupied the whole length<br />
the road surface, and supply vehicles with<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Johannesburg is respon-<br />
nise the charter of two ships in Antwerp.<br />
the roads along the 560 km transport<br />
A breathtaking sight<br />
of the special ship's deck.<br />
thousands of litres of diesel fuel, tyres<br />
sible for ensuring the timely arrival in<br />
In that port they were respectively loaded<br />
route. Leaflets were distributed and ann-<br />
The imposing cargo could already be<br />
and spare parts. After 19 days, 50 punctu-<br />
South Africa of all the plant material<br />
with 11,500 and 9,500 tonnes of freight<br />
ouncements were made by radio and tele-<br />
seen from Richards Bay when it was still<br />
red tyres and two repairs to the tractor<br />
from the various suppliers in Europe, In-<br />
consisting mainly of very heavy and<br />
vision to alert the public of this move-<br />
far out at sea. The larger splitter weig-<br />
pied by the preparations for land trans-<br />
units, the two splitter units finally rea-<br />
dia, the USA and the Far East, totalling<br />
bulky items from all over Europe (name-<br />
ment and the associated hindrances to<br />
hing 480 tonnes occupied the whole<br />
port, i.e. the transfer of the reactors to<br />
ched their destination in Secunda.<br />
56,000 tonnes. Customs clearance and<br />
ly from Belgium, France, Germany, the<br />
traffic. One of the <strong>world</strong>'s most modern<br />
length of the ship's deck, a breathtaking<br />
multi-axle trailer combinations in the<br />
The colossus was transported for the<br />
overland transport to the construction<br />
Netzerlands, Spain and Switzerland),<br />
refineries is now under construction at<br />
sight even for old hands in the heavy-lift<br />
port.<br />
South African energy and chemical<br />
sites at Secunda and Sasolburg are arran-<br />
which resulted in enormous savings for<br />
Secunda.<br />
business when the vessel with the<br />
At a speed of 5 km per hour the impo-<br />
concern Sasol, which is building new<br />
ged by the <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> affiliate KN<br />
the customer.<br />
The transport of the two splitter units<br />
gigantic cargo docked in the port of<br />
sing convoy then set off for Secunda, es-<br />
refinery facilities and expanding existing<br />
Tsepisa Logistics, based in Johannesburg.<br />
from their builder to the pier at Hazira<br />
Richards Bay.<br />
corted by the police. It covered a maxi-<br />
capacity at its Sasolburg and Secunda<br />
The biggest challenge presented by<br />
(Surat), already presented the specialists<br />
480 tonnes is the weight of roughly a<br />
mum distance of 56 km per day, and as<br />
production plants. The overall logistic<br />
this project, which is scheduled for com-<br />
with a major challenge. Here, under the<br />
hundred elephants. Two days were occu-<br />
little as 30 km on steep stretches.<br />
management of this giant project, i.e.<br />
pletion this year, was the transport of the
industrial packing 19<br />
Packing independent of location<br />
The wholly-owned <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> subsidiary Cargopack has specialised<br />
in a <strong>world</strong>wide packing service for industrial goods which is independent<br />
of location. General manager Friedrich Stuwe explains the concept.<br />
What does the term “independent of location” mean for the packing<br />
services of Cargopack?<br />
For Cargopack, independence of location is the ability to offer an identical<br />
A strong box<br />
Good packaging is half the battle.<br />
standard of packing services and transport safety irrespective of in what<br />
country and under what conditions a package begins its journey.<br />
What induced you to place independence of location at the centre of your<br />
service policy?<br />
As a member of the <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Group, Cargopack has always been<br />
an integral part of a logistic network in which one must demonstrate one's<br />
own capabilities on an international level. For that reason the require-<br />
Time is money – this is particularly<br />
true when complex production<br />
plants have to start operating by a<br />
the packing specialist Cargopack, <strong>Kuehne</strong><br />
+ <strong>Nagel</strong>’s airfreight departement in<br />
Frankfurt am Main, and <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong><br />
Already in the planning phase it became<br />
clear that the loading of the 12-<br />
tonne main machine of the CNC machi-<br />
SCREWED TIGHT. To withstand the<br />
stresses imposed by the Antonov’s<br />
crane, the transport crate was rein-<br />
ments Cargopack has to meet are already clearly defined by our customers:<br />
Cargopack is the packing specialist in a globally operating group that covers<br />
the whole range of logistic needs. It is therefore only logical to invest<br />
specific date and all components have to<br />
USA for overland transport from Was-<br />
ning centre would be the crucial part of<br />
forced with steel girders.<br />
in network structures, or in other words in making us independent of our<br />
be punctually assembled on the spot. In<br />
hington DC.<br />
the project and would a present a special<br />
own locations.<br />
such cases the packing of the goods can<br />
challenge to the packing company Car-<br />
be a decisive factor, as shown by a recent<br />
No time to lose<br />
gopack. The special configuration of the<br />
In this case the integration of the<br />
So Cargopack is integrated into a global network of packing companies?<br />
example in which <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> suc-<br />
The first logistic challenge was a precise<br />
crane called for the construction of a<br />
packing into the logistic concept proved<br />
Cargopack is a member of an international network of leading export<br />
cessfully shipped a computer-controlled<br />
planning of all operations. Since only a<br />
transport crate that could withstand ex-<br />
to be the most important factor for a<br />
packers. These have defined a common industry standard for the quality of<br />
(CNC) machining centre by air to the<br />
very narrow time window could be assign-<br />
tremely high bending forces because the<br />
problem-free transport operation. For<br />
packing services, and maintain a close cooperation with each other.<br />
USA. Here a crucial role was played by<br />
ed to each phase, every stage of the opera-<br />
Antonov's crane could lift its load only<br />
only this allowed the use of the<br />
the packing specialist Cargopack.<br />
tion had to run absolutely smoothly. And<br />
at its outermost ends.<br />
Antonov’s crane without which the main<br />
What does that mean for your customers?<br />
The parts of the machine had to be<br />
to allow perfect coordination between the<br />
machine could not have been loaded<br />
We can offer our customers the same quality of service as they are accusto-<br />
transported within 96 hours from the fac-<br />
operations of the individual parties, meti-<br />
Reinforcing the floor<br />
into the aircraft.<br />
med to receive from us in Germany, Europe, and, with the aid of our part-<br />
tory gate of the German manufacturer,<br />
culous preparation was essential.<br />
Cargopack, a subsidiary of <strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
With all the necessary components<br />
ners, also in the principal exporting countries such as China. For our custo-<br />
Schwäbische Werkzeugmaschinen<br />
For air transport to the USA, <strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong> specialising in the transport<br />
being delivered and assembled on schedu-<br />
mers we can thus be a competent partner and provide dependable support on<br />
GmbH, to the customer’s production<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong> chartered an Antonov 124, one of<br />
packing of industrial goods, solved<br />
le, production could also begin as quickly<br />
questions of industrial packing.<br />
plant in the United States.<br />
the <strong>world</strong>’s biggest airplanes with a carry-<br />
the problem by reinforcing the floor<br />
as planned.<br />
Several parties were involved in the<br />
ing capacity of 120 tonnes. The hold of this<br />
of the crate in such a way that it could<br />
project: the manufacturer’s own shipping<br />
aircraft is equipped with a crane capable of<br />
withstand the increased strain of<br />
department for transport to the airport,<br />
handling items weighing up to 20 tonnes.<br />
lifting.
A philosopher<br />
of the air and of life<br />
people 21<br />
Thinking at the right height. The Swiss balloonist Bertrand Piccard promoted<br />
his latest project at <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>.<br />
His father dived to hitherto unprecedented<br />
ocean depths:<br />
11,000 metres (37,800 ft) below<br />
made parachute jumps, danced in the sky.<br />
Piccard, the businessman, set up a flying<br />
school in the Canary Islands and went<br />
He recalls the Chinese overflying regulations.<br />
They forced him to make a detour,<br />
but this carried him into a favoura-<br />
the surface of the Pacific into the Maria-<br />
bankrupt after three years.<br />
ble wind. “The greatest gifts in life are of-<br />
na Trench. His grandfather’s achieve-<br />
Doctor Piccard completed his studies.<br />
ten poorly packed.” Was he not proud to<br />
ment was in an upward direction: in 1931<br />
“Curiosity, perseverance and respect” are<br />
be the first balloonist to fly round the<br />
he was the first person to reach the stra-<br />
the virtues he deems worthy of life. He<br />
<strong>world</strong>? “It is always good to be first,” Pic-<br />
tosphere. And Bertrand Piccard? “I had<br />
wants to communicate this to the mana-<br />
card replied. “Otherwise I would not be<br />
to choose the horizontal,” said this scion<br />
gers at <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> , the economics<br />
here but in my consulting room in Lau-<br />
of the adventurous French Swiss family.<br />
students in St. Gallen, and politicians at<br />
sanne where I might be staring at a photo<br />
Six years ago, he and his companion<br />
the World Economic Forum in Davos.<br />
of the journey which I have on my desk.”<br />
Brian Jones made a sensational journey:<br />
After 47,755 kilometres they landed in<br />
Getting rid of ballast<br />
Forging ahead with new projects<br />
the Egyptian desert, having made a com-<br />
He tells them that what counts is not<br />
Wherever Piccard the entertainer puts<br />
plete nonstop circuit of the <strong>world</strong>.<br />
AROUND THE WORLD. Bertrand<br />
the setting of records, for they will eventu-<br />
on his show, he leaves behind an en-<br />
The capsule bearing the name of their<br />
Piccard completed the first non-<br />
ally be broken, but the enduring experien-<br />
raptured audience. They enjoy hearing the<br />
patient sponsor, Breitling Orbiter III, has<br />
stop circumnavigation of the globe<br />
ce that is gained from them. In order to<br />
man who describes his way through the<br />
since stood in the Washington Space Mu-<br />
in a balloon in 1999.<br />
change height one must dump ballast. Pic-<br />
clouds as if by blind flying he had blazed a<br />
seum just round the corner from Lind-<br />
card the psychologist: “We have to get rid<br />
trail through life. They forgive him when,<br />
bergh’s aircraft.<br />
tion, we have to start thinking at a diffe-<br />
of things that we have fundamentally lear-<br />
after slightly less than an hour, he digs in<br />
Piccard’s fame now feeds on his philo-<br />
rent height,” says the Piccard the psy-<br />
ned it is better to keep. So long as we do<br />
his box of memories and projects the most<br />
sophy for managers which he has derived<br />
chiatrist.<br />
not leave the safety zone, there can be no<br />
spectacular pictures of his journey on the<br />
from the art of ballooning.<br />
He did not become a physicist or an en-<br />
creativity.”<br />
wall accompanied by John Lennon’s im-<br />
A wiry figure, he stands before the management<br />
team of the Swiss logistics<br />
gineer. He did not want simply to follow<br />
in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps,<br />
Piccard recalls his moments of fear: For<br />
instance, when he and his companion de-<br />
mortal song “Imagine”.<br />
They are fascinated when they hear<br />
Bertrand Piccard<br />
company <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>, whom he has<br />
however straightforward that would have<br />
cided to tackle the flight across the Atlan-<br />
about his next plan. He is working on a<br />
Born in Lausanne (Switzerland) on 1 March 1958. His father established a deep-<br />
been invited to address. A small man,<br />
been. He spent the night before the start of<br />
tic, the last quarter of their journey, al-<br />
motorised glider fitted with solar collec-<br />
diving record, while his grandfather made a balloon flight into the stratosphere.<br />
with short hair and a high forehead. Pe-<br />
the moon capsule Apollo Eleven in the ho-<br />
though they had only an eighth of their<br />
tors. The power they generate drives a<br />
He studies medicine and becomes a psychiatrist.<br />
netrating but not unfriendly eyes. No-<br />
tel room of Wernher von Braun, the geni-<br />
gas supply left. “You have to accept fear.<br />
motor which always keeps the aircraft<br />
thing about his clothing suggests the ad-<br />
us who also designed the rocket that laun-<br />
Then it disappears.”<br />
above the clouds. Almost a perpetuum<br />
In 1985 he gives the first public display of his passion for flying by becoming<br />
venturer. His dark suit is meticulously<br />
ched the men on their way to the moon.<br />
He remembers the meteorologists in<br />
mobile whose endurance is limited only<br />
European champion in paraglider aerobatics.<br />
pressed. His aim is not to break records,<br />
the ground station. Piccard wanted to use<br />
by that of the pilot. Piccard will find<br />
but to open horizons, says Piccard, the<br />
Seeking the meaning of life<br />
the fastest wind. By radio, the weather<br />
sponsors for this too, some perhaps this<br />
In 1992 he wins the first transatlantic balloon race.<br />
pioneer.<br />
Back in his home town of Lausanne on<br />
men advised him against it: “Do you want<br />
very evening. After all, even managers<br />
And then comes his interpretation of<br />
Lake Geneva, the boy turned over questi-<br />
to go fast in the wrong direction or drift<br />
have dreams.<br />
Oliver Stock<br />
In 1999, together with his British co-pilot Brian Jones, he is the first person to<br />
ballooning: drifting with the wind and<br />
ons in his mind: What do we live for?<br />
slowly in the right one?” they asked. “We<br />
circle the earth nonstop in a balloon. Since then he has been touring the <strong>world</strong> as<br />
nevertheless reaching your objective.<br />
What is the point of setting records?<br />
need more meteorologists in schools, in<br />
a travelling lecturer, working on a new project and collecting money for his foun-<br />
That is what is unique about it. “If the<br />
Piccard studied the interaction of body,<br />
politics, in business,” is the lesson Piccard<br />
dation "Winds of Hope" in aid of sick children in the third <strong>world</strong>.<br />
winds of life blow in the wrong direc-<br />
mind and soul. He flew delta gliders,<br />
has learned from this situation.<br />
(Source: HANDELSBLATT, 9.5.2005 )
The logistics elite meets for an<br />
exchange of ideas<br />
KEEN MINDS MEET. Under the patronage of the <strong>Kuehne</strong> Foundation, wellknown<br />
German professors from various universities that are supported by or<br />
closely associated with the Foundation regularly meet for an exchange of views<br />
and ideas on research themes and projects. The last such meeting took place<br />
in February 2005 at the <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> headquarters in Schindellegi.<br />
Scotch for<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong>+<strong>Nagel</strong><br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> has recently<br />
expanded its activities in the<br />
wine & spirits niche market<br />
Peter Ulber,<br />
CEO of<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong><br />
Ltd, UK.<br />
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in corporate development at <strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong>’s Swiss headquarters. Heading<br />
the department the latter<br />
four years, he significantly<br />
contributed<br />
in Scotland. After the successful<br />
to the evaluation<br />
integration of Seabrook & Smith,<br />
and comple-<br />
the well-known British provider of<br />
tion of strate-<br />
logistics services for wine, beer and<br />
gic acquisi-<br />
spirits importers, <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> UK<br />
tions for the<br />
took over Wm. Martin & Co. (Marine)<br />
Ltd., a forwarding company headquartered<br />
in Glasgow, in February this<br />
year. The Scottish company, which<br />
port. But yes, once in a while I do drink a glass<br />
myself.<br />
Bonjour<br />
la France<br />
globally operating<br />
logistics<br />
group.<br />
As Managing<br />
generates a turnover of more than<br />
The French organisation of<br />
Director, Tobias<br />
CHF 40 million per year, owes its suc-<br />
Did you toast to the takeover of Wm. Martin & Co<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> has been un-<br />
Jerschke will apply him-<br />
Meeting of professors in Schindellegi. From left to right: Prof. Wolfgang Stölzle (<strong>Kuehne</strong><br />
Institute of Logistics at the University of St. Gallen), Prof. Helmut Baumgarten (emeritus,<br />
TU Berlin), Prof. Peer Witten (Honorary Professor at the University of Magdeburg), Klaus-<br />
Michael <strong>Kuehne</strong> (Chairman of the Board of Governors of the <strong>Kuehne</strong> Foundation), Prof.<br />
Jürgen Weber (<strong>Kuehne</strong> Center for Logistics Management at the WHU School of Management in<br />
Vallendar), Prof. Frank Straube (TU Berlin), Prof. Wolfgang Kersten (Hamburg School<br />
of Logistics at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg), Martin Willhaus (General Manager,<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> Foundation).<br />
cess particularly to its special knowledge<br />
of the whisky industry.<br />
World Magazine talked to Peter Ulber,<br />
CEO of <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Ltd, UK.<br />
Mr. Ulber, do you enjoy a glass of whisky<br />
with a glass of whisky?<br />
We enjoyed a toast during the staff gathering,<br />
which took place immediately after the completion<br />
of the acquisition. The gathering was attended<br />
by all Glasgow staff, both present<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> and former Wm. Martin<br />
employees, and was an excellent opportunity<br />
der new leadership since April 2005.<br />
32-year-old TOBIAS JERSCHKE has<br />
been named new managing director. He<br />
succeeds Jean-Pierre Ennebick, who<br />
henceforth will preside over the Board of<br />
Directors of <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> (France) S.A.<br />
After international studies in economics,<br />
self to the ongoing expansion<br />
of the French national company with a<br />
particular focus on contract logistics<br />
operations. This business unit is being<br />
developed groupwide alongside<br />
seafreight and airfreight activities.<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> employs around<br />
now and then?<br />
for everyone to get to know one another.<br />
in 1998 Tobias Jerschke began his career<br />
550 staff at 20 locations in France.<br />
The biggest enjoyment I get from whisky is<br />
Opening ceremony in Salzburg<br />
INAUGURATION. <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Aus-<br />
Klaus-Michael <strong>Kuehne</strong> said during the<br />
seeing it in barrels being loaded into a<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> container ready for trans-<br />
What did you especially like about Wm. Martin,<br />
that made you want to buy the company?<br />
We had talked to Wm. Martin about the possi-<br />
Schoolmates<br />
tria has doubled its warehousing capacity<br />
inauguration ceremony, “Salzburg is of<br />
bility of a close cooperation for a long time. Its<br />
They went to the same school in Ham-<br />
to 13,000 sqm and increased the number<br />
major strategic importance both for the<br />
60 year history in Scotland and profound know-<br />
burg, the poet and song-writer WOLF<br />
of pallet slots to 14,000 in Salzburg/Berg-<br />
strong local economy and as a logistics<br />
how, regarding the wine and spirits industry in<br />
BIERMANN and KLAUS-MICHAEL<br />
heim. In the presence of many customers<br />
hub. In view of our plans to expand acti-<br />
particular, combined with <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>’s<br />
KUEHNE, Executive Chairman and<br />
and business partners, Gabriele Burgstaller,<br />
vities in Austria and across central<br />
<strong>world</strong>wide reach made this acquisition a perfect<br />
President of the Board of Directors of<br />
Governor of the Province of Salzburg and<br />
Europe, the Salzburg branch plays an<br />
choice for our strategy for continued growth.<br />
<strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong>. At the end of Fe-<br />
Klaus-Michael <strong>Kuehne</strong>, Executive Chairman<br />
integral part.”<br />
bruary this year, Wolf Biermann, who<br />
of the Board of Directors of <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong><br />
In the picture (from left to right): Christine<br />
What made the takeover a pleasure?<br />
was giving a guest performance at the<br />
International AG, opened the extended<br />
and Klaus-Michael <strong>Kuehne</strong>; Josef Mitter-<br />
It was similar to the takeover of Seabrook &<br />
Theater am Hechtplatz in Zurich, visited<br />
logistics centre in March this year.<br />
meier, Director <strong>Kuehne</strong> + <strong>Nagel</strong> Salzburg;<br />
Smith during 2003 in that, thanks to the strong<br />
his old school friend at the company's<br />
Governor Gabriele Burg-<br />
commitment on both sides of the negotiating<br />
headquarters in Schindellegi.<br />
staller; and Friedrich<br />
HANDSHAKE. Gary Black (<strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
table, once the basic agreement had been made<br />
Although their chosen career paths could<br />
tually expelled from the GDR but then be-<br />
Macher, General<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong> UK) welcomes Joe Hanlon<br />
the whole process from beginning to end took<br />
not be any more different, they have one<br />
came a respected and much honoured<br />
Manager Central<br />
(Wm. Martin).<br />
under eight weeks to complete. It is also a plea-<br />
thing in common: the determination with<br />
German artist and performer. And, on the<br />
Europe, <strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
sure to see how well the existing and new staff<br />
which they pursue their respective aims in<br />
other hand, the captain of industry, who<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong>.<br />
AWARD. At the London International Wine<br />
are getting along – as can be seen from the at-<br />
life: The political poet and singer, who vo-<br />
took charge of the family firm at the early<br />
& Spirits Fair on May 18 2005, <strong>Kuehne</strong> +<br />
tached photo of Gary Black, Regional Director,<br />
luntarily settled in East Germany in 1953,<br />
age of 29 and who has since then braved<br />
<strong>Nagel</strong> was awarded ‘Best Logistics Com-<br />
Northern Region and Joe Hanlon, Branch Ma-<br />
was later banned from performing in pu-<br />
many ups and downs and turned <strong>Kuehne</strong><br />
pany’ by “Drinks Business Magazine”.<br />
nager, Glasgow (formerly Wm. Martin) visit-<br />
blic for thirteen years because of his criti-<br />
+ <strong>Nagel</strong> into a successful logistics com-<br />
ing the Glengoyne Distillery.<br />
cism of state policy. Biermann was even-<br />
pany operating on a global scale.
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