The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
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Imports: Machinery & equipment, motor<br />
vehicles, chemicals, metal manufactures,<br />
plastic.<br />
Major trading partners: Brazil, Chile, US,<br />
China, Spain, Germany.<br />
Pictured left to right: John Hepworth, Jorge Perez – President<br />
of Overseas Argentina), Bruce Plested , Don Braid and<br />
Marcelo Moure – Sales Director<br />
Brazil<br />
Our partner is Craft. <strong>The</strong>y are CaroTrans<br />
second largest partner with offices through<br />
Brazil. Sao Paulo, third largest city in the world,<br />
is a mixture of wealth and poverty. <strong>The</strong> city<br />
freeway cannot keep pace with the population<br />
growth and measure their traffic jams by miles.<br />
<strong>The</strong> average traffic jam is 120 miles long but<br />
has been recorded up to 180 miles long.<br />
Craft’s high profile booth at the Trade Fair<br />
We attended the South America Freight<br />
Trade Fair; the only one of its type for Global<br />
Logistics. It is an enormous facility with over<br />
250,000 people attending over the 3 days.<br />
Population: 190,010,647<br />
Exports: Transport equipment, iron ore, soya<br />
beans, footwear, coffee, auto’s.<br />
Imports: Machinery, electrical & transport<br />
equipment, chemical products, oil.<br />
Major trading partners: US, Argentina, China,<br />
Netherland, Germany, Mexico, Nigeria, Japan.<br />
Won Choo – General Manager of Craft and Bruce Plested
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