LFS Group December 2013 Bulletin
Dear Fellow Members & Friends,
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
It is time to celebrate and usher the New Year. Let us look forward to a better year ahead.
Some important news to share with you:
GROUP AFFAIRS
During the months after AGM, we received feedbacks from members and this include on how to strengthen identity. As a result, the following have been done:
WEBSITE DOMAIN
We will have two domains. The current www.lfsglobalogistics.com and newly register www.lfsgroup.org where “org” signify none profit organization. At this stage, the new website has been mirror from the previous where material can be seen from both site.
EMAIL – full members will be given an identity email. You will be notify of your email address, password and how to setup. Email addresses are for each station giving the member an identity to transact and receiving inquiries as Group members for that station. The following are the current list and additional will be made from time to time. Only FULL MEMBER are qualify for having this email address:
Australia ustralia@lfsgroup.org
Bangladesh bangladesh@lfsgroup.org
Brazil brazil@lfsgroup.org
China - Ningbo china-ngb@lfsgroup.org
China - Shanghai china-sha@lfsgroup.org
China - Shenzhen china-szx@lfsgroup.org
China - Qingdao china-tao@lfsgroup.org
China - Tianjin china-tsn@lfsgroup.org
China - Wuhan china-wuh@lfsgroup.org
France france@lfsgroup.org
Germany germany@lfsgroup.org
Greece greece@lfsgroup.org
Hong Kong hongkong@lfsgroup.org
India india@lfsgroup.org
Indonesia indonesia@lfsgroup.org
Israel israel@lfsgroup.org
Italy italy@lfsgroup.org
Japan japan@lfsgroup.org
Kuwait kuwait@lfsgroup.org
Malaysia malaysia@lfsgroup.org
Mexico mexico@lfsgroup.org
Myanmar myanmar@lfsgroup.org
Netherlands netherlands@lfsgroup.org
Nigeria nigeria@lfsgroup.org
Pakistan pakistan@lfsgroup.org
Philippines philippines@lfsgroup.org
Portugal portugal@lfsgroup.org
Romania romania@lfsgroup.org
Singapore singapore@lfsgroup.org
South Africa southafrica@lfsgroup.org
South Korea southkorea@lfsgroup.org
Spain spain@lfsgroup.org
Taiwan taiwan@lfsgroup.org
Thailand thailand@lfsgroup.org
Turkey turkey@lfsgroup.org
United Arab Emirates uae@lfsgroup.org
United Kingdom uk@lfsgroup.org
United States of America usa@lfsgroup.org
Vietnam vietnam@lfsgroup.org
Group Secretary group-secretary@lfsgroup.org
WEBSITE REVAMP
A completely new design website will be put to live shortly. Some of the items where you will see changes includes following:
- Video – each month members are encourage to submit a short video of the company be it business presentation, project handling or even social activity. This is a platform for members to share and advertise their company.
- Sponsor logo – this will be post for that period of time in the year of sponsorship. The logo will be interlinked to the sponsor website.
- Exclusive Instant Messenger – Given that we are all register to all types of Instant Messenger (such as SKYPE, MSN, WECHAT, FACEBOOK etc….. we have form our own Instant Messenger platform. We request members to log in as what they do every day so that other members can see you online to discuss & conduct business. At least you are sure that we are not going to be social or disrupting your work as you won’t be getting nuisance IM from unknown party. We safe guard our platform and exclusively meant for our members only. Moreover, we can do conference in this segment.
- Advertisement – there will be a column for members to put their products for sale.
- Event Countdown – this will allow members to know immediately how soon the next major event from the Group will be held.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2014
This will be held in Qingdao; China. The dates (revised) have been set as follow:
22 May - Arrival & Check In / Welcome Dinner
23 May - Conference
24 May - R & R
25 May - Conference
Grand Dinner
26 May - Check Out & Departure
Members must arrive on 22 May and should only depart on 26 May.
GERMANY
MARK VII INTERNATIONAL shall trade as"Transmode Overseas Transportgesellschaft GMBH", which is adequately known to some members. The change is planned to take place at the turn of the year.
Aside the change of name there are basically no other major changes. All your trusted counterparts remain the same:
Export (sea&air):
Marion Schmidt marion.schmidt@transmode.de
Birke Geissler birke.geissler@transmode.de
Anika Hagestedt anika.hagestedt@transmode.de
Import (sea):
Petra Klages petra.klages@transmode.de
Import (air):
Markos Varlamis markos.varlamis@transmode.de
Accounts:
Olaf Hintz olaf.hintz@transmode.de
Management
Alexander Simon alexander.simon@transmode.de
Peter Karstens peter.karstens@transmode.de
The office address and telephone numbers remain the same. The new fax number will be +49-421-13325.
Please note our new bank account details:
- Bank: Commerzbank, Bremen
- Bank Code: 29080010
- Account Number: 101716000
FRANCE
We wish to congratulate our member from France; ISYS LOGISTIQUE in obtaining French Custom Broker License. This will facilitate ONE STOP logistics service for all shipments into and out of France. Moreover, ISYS LOGISTIQUE have had moved to 2nd floor of the same building. Kindly update your record as shown below:
ISYS LOGISTIQUE
14 bis rue de la Belle Borne
2 nd Level FRET 5 -Bat A - BP 10013 -95722 ROISSY CDG CEDEX
FRANCE -
IATA/FIATA - Habilité Sureté Aérienne
EORI NUMBER: FR414 762 856 00014
Custom license broker N° 5295
Web site: www.isyslog.com
PH 33 1 49 19 89 70
FAX 33 1 49 19 8975
Mob 33 6 08 600 609
Meanwhile, do take note that VAT in France is 20%.
HONG KONG
Hong Kong member; LINK FIRST GLOBAL LOGISTICS LTD have had re-design their home page. You may visit their site at www.link-first.com
Wishing all a HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2014 bring you good positive prospect, good health and happiness.
With Warmest Regards
David Lim
Group President
LFS GLOBAL LOGISTICS GROUP