The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

Mainfreight International Australia – Michael Lofaro
There is no doubt that if we have one constant
in the Mainfreight family, it’s change ... we are
constantly challenging ourselves to improve,
to satisfy our customers, grow our teams, both
personally and professionally, and at the same
time forge a company with a Hundred Year
philosophy ... not a lot of time to think or worry
about petty things. We move at pace, we make
decisions, and we look forward to the next
challenge.
Well the Mainfreight International team knows
well all these core fundamentals of our
company.
In the last six months we’ve seen a lot of
changes, all very positive and all focused on
maintaining our forward march to becoming a
true global logistics provider to our clients; a
global company with an Australasian base.
You may have noticed that we have gone back
to our original name of Mainfreight International.
Our branches have also seen some change
with increased numbers of team members.
The most exciting thing here is the introduction
of some very dynamic graduates to our
branches and also, in our Sydney office, we’ve
introduced our first Schools Based Apprentice,
an initiative driven and set up by Rachel Moore
and Martin Devereux.
Mainfreight International is bringing great young
people into our family to help with our growth
and development.
We are also very excited to have Mainfreight
International finally open its doors in the
USA. We are now common branded and
working under one flag in Australia, New
Zealand, China and the good old US of A!
and singular focus for the International team in
Australia.
A very welcome addition to our team has been
the Owens Coolair operation in Melbourne.
They are now operational as Mainfreight
International Perishables.
With all this, along the way, we get to handle
some very interesting cargo movements for our
clients. Our Melbourne team recently handled a
very unique movement of a historic racing car.
Mainfreight has just moved what is believed
to be the most historical / classical
Jaguar ever imported into Australia.
Mike of Mike Roddy Jaguars imported the
1984 Silk Cut Jaguar which was raced by the
Tom Walkinshaw Racing team and has won
the prestigious Spa 24 hour in 1984 and the
following year the same car of its make also
won the 1985 James Hardie 1000 km race in
Bathurst. The car has an imported value of
AUD$180,000 and Mike plans to restore and
race it in a new classic cars group throughout
Australia. Mike has had previous small imports
through Mainfreight and was happy with the
service and professional approach of the
company so he decided to use us to import and
customs clear his prize possession.
The picture is from a current issue of “Jag Mag”
about Mike’s purchase and the arrival of the car
at the Mainfreight International – Tullamarine
depot.
Added to this is the ever increasing
interaction of all our products in Australia.
As the business matures in Australia,
the strength of our supply chain and the
inter‐product unity gets stronger. Joint
sales meetings, joint sales calls, and gaining
“supply chain” clients remains a strong
Representing Mainfreight International Australia, are, from left to right
- Ram Sali, Craig Daly with owners Mike Roddy and son Jordan