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session Wednesday 0830 at IATA WCS is titled “Supply Chain Management”
chaired by EMO Trans Chairman and CEO Jo Frigger (pictured right in Los
Angeles with EMO Trans President Marco Rohrer.
Panel brings together people from Hewlett
Packard, Intel, UPS and several ground handling companies.
EMO
Trans Los Angeles celebrated thirty years of service last year and in
fact was among the company’s first U.S. branches. The recipe for
continued success is longevity and loyalty from its staff members, and
a keen sense of serving the customer.
But the very steady management group is
also a key factor.
In its more than 30-year history, EMO Los
Angeles has had only three Branch managers—Hardy Zantke, Marco Rohrer
(Marco was elected EMO President in in 2014), and now in 2014 Guenther
Eberle.
Looking a bit deeper, two EMO staff members
who helped open the branch are still there today; in fact, Barbara Newman
and Gisela Spees were recognized for their 30 years with the company in
2013.
“A majority of our employees are beyond
or approaching the 10-year anniversary mark,” Guenther says.
“We’re known for our unmatched
experience and knowledge of how to bundle services in the marketplace.”
EMO Trans
Los Angeles’ current location near LAX is an approved TSA Certified
Cargo Screening Facility, with more than 30,000 square feet of warehouse
space, and is home to more than 22 staff persons. “We also have
a satellite office in San Diego supervised by Shannon Mahnke,” Guenther
explains.
“Between our offices, we cover an
operational territory from north of Paso Robles to Las Vegas, NV, down
to the southern border in San Diego County.”
The branch
offers a balanced mix of services with departments almost equally staffed
in all divisions: customs brokerage, air inbound, air outbound, ocean
inbound, ocean outbound, and warehouse and sales. And there’s a
little bit of everything in its customer base.
An overview of recent projects include:
*Importing
and clearing Bluefin tuna for an airline caterer at LAX and Swedish candy
by ocean for a start-up company in downtown L.A.
*Groupage/consolidation
container outbound service to Tahiti (French Polynesia) and Amazon-type
buyers’ consolidations to Australia and New Zealand
*Streamlining
7am deliveries for hundreds of TEUs per month for an automotive infrastructure
importer on the outskirts of Ventura County
*Organizing
exhibition goods for a round-the-world schedule
*Occasionally
chartering large cargo airplanes like the 747F or AN 12
In The Stars For EMO S/HEntertainment remains
the top industry in the greater Los Angeles area, based on number of people
employed in that sector.
But right after show biz, logistics, transportation,
and distribution are the next busiest business, even ahead of fashion,
hospitality and tourism, financial services, and aviation.
“Since we all didn’t make it
big in Hollywood, it looks like we made a good choice to pursue a career
in logistics!” Guenther laughs.
EMO Trans LA is also as diverse in personnel
as the global markets it serves, with seven different languages spoken!
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cars is one of the branch’s specialties, including exporting exotic
cars by air and ocean to Europe and the Middle East.
EMO Trans LA also airfreights camouflaged
test cars from a prime brand automotive manufacturer and then arranges
customs clearance and just-in-time delivery in a high-security environment
to the test grounds.
“LAX offers more than two dozen dedicated
cargo flights weekly in all directions in addition to the countless ‘belly
capacity’ passenger planes.
That depth of services allows us to grow
our airfreight activities, traditionally a strong suit for the EMO Trans
group,” Guenther said.
“The global trend toward ocean freight
has also positively impacted our business.
EMO Trans LA now manages the second largest ocean inbound volume within
the company’s U.S. organization, with lots of further growth potential.
“The Long Beach/Los Angeles/San Pedro
Bay ports together create the largest ocean import gateway to the nation,”
Guenther explains, “and we are handling quite a bit of it.”
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