CEVA enhances Transportation Services for BlueScope Steel Indonesia
06 November 2008 - 18:39 CET
Prairie Wagons innovative means of transportation will boost safety, flexibility and productivityJAKARTA, Indonesia, November 6, 2008 - CEVA Logistics, a leading global supply chain management company, has invested in three customized Prairie Wagons to further enhance its transportation services to BlueScope Steel Indonesia ("BlueScope") - a manufacturing company that produces zinc/aluminium coated steel and painted steel. With these new trailers, CEVA can now provide improved innovative transportation with enhanced safety features, and increased flexibility and productivity during the loading/unloading of goods.
The Prairie Wagon is a prime mover with a forty-footer trailer and a sliding canopy. This allows the steel coils to be easily loaded by using an overhead crane, thus reducing significant loading time wastage. As it is equipped with Roboracks to stabilize the position of the steel coils, the new equipment is also capable of securely protecting the heavy cargo while in-transit. Each Prairie Wagon can hold a maximum of 32-tons of coils, yet it requires only one operator to manage the entire loading process.
"A key part of BlueScope Steel's philosophy under "OUR BOND" is that "Our Customers Are Our Partners". Our strength lies in working closely with our customers to create value and trust, together with superior products and service.The Prairie Wagon concept that has been supported by CEVA is part of our commitment to relentlessly improve our performance to customers whilst maximising our efforts to improve the Safety of our employees and the working environment", said Andrew Heycott, President Director of PT BlueScope Steel Indonesia.
"With the Prairie Wagons, CEVA Indonesia will now be able to provide a more innovative means of transportation for BlueScope Steel in Indonesia, thus creating added value for our customer and driving our operations excellence further into our Indonesian business," said Rita Boyle, Country General Manager of PT CEVA Logistics Indonesia.
For more information:
CEVA Asia Pacific
May Chng
Marketing & Communications Manager, Asia Pacific
+65 6507 2763
may.chng@cevalogistics.com
CEVA Indonesia
Eti Setiawati
PA to Country General Manager - Contract Logistics
CEVA Logistics Indonesia
+62-21-5201250
eti.setiawati@cevalogistics.com
About PT. BlueScope Steel Indonesia
Established in 1995, PT. BlueScope Steel Indonesia (BSI) is the one and only local manufacturer of zinc/aluminum metallic coated and prepainted steel in Indonesia. BSI produces high quality ZINCALUME® steel and Clean COLORBOND® steel, which provides solutions against tropical staining. BSI also produce PELANGI® steel, ABADI® steel, GEMILANG® steel, INTERIOR® steel, INDAH® steel and ANCORTM steel. For more information, please visit: www.bluescopesteel.co.id.
CEVA. Making Business Flow
CEVA Logistics is a leading global supply chain management company. We provide end-to-end design, implementation and operational solutions in contract logistics and freight forwarding to large and medium-sized national and multinational companies. CEVA employs 56,000 people and runs an extensive global network with facilities in over 100 countries. Following the acquisition of EGL in August 2007, the new combined company had pro forma sales of € 6.3 billion. For more information, please visit www.cevalogistics.com.
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