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| Vol. 16 No. 29 | Tuesday
March 28, 2017 |
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Great Expectations Realized “We
have great confidence to move forward
in a very challenging environment,”
Mr. Rohrer said.
Self-Generated Destiny “Today we are in the strongest financial position in our 50- plus years in business,” Marco Rohrer declared.
New Locations “In
2016, we opened new offices in Malaysia
and Singapore. Our Malaysian operation
was profitable from the day the doors
opened for business.
2016 Adds Up “Last
year,” Marco Rohrer said, “Information
Technology was front and center in terms
of our investment for the future.
Regrets, We Have A Few
“We were taken by surprise (as
was most of the rest of the industry)
at the sudden, unexpected, and total
collapse of Hanjin.
Ahead Into 2017 “EMO Trans had a fast break into 2017 opening up three new offices, including Chengdu in January, Penang in March, and EMO Trans Beijing went operational just this week.”
Year Of Consolidation “We see 2017 as a year of consolidation. The political climate is as unpredictable as we’ve ever seen it. A possible trade war with some of our key trading partners would have a devastating effect on our business and the global economy. Our strategy is to strengthen every facet of our network. We will continue to invest heavily in Information Technology, Sales, and our people. We do not have imminent plans to open in other countries, but we are opportunists and will strike if the right one comes along.”
The Competition “In
the current environment, organic growth
will be hard to come by. “As a
privately held company, we are not threatened
by this and can take a long-term view.
Most of our competitors are public and
under pressure to increase earnings
per share. As a result, we expect increased
M&A activity. During the merger
process, these companies are focused
inward and often neglect their customers,
giving us a chance to swoop in and gain
new clients. Some of these combined
companies will emerge as formidable
competitors with offices in every corner
of the globe, tremendous procurement
power, and enviable resources.
New Entrants “Worth
watching,” Marco Rohrer said,
“are the ‘new technology’
companies like Amazon, which bought
a slew of aircraft and just this week
began offering services to China.
What Happens Next? “We
will grow our business while watching
our expenses closely.
Workshops Abound “At
our meeting this week, we are holding
a number of interactive workshops focused
on technology, sales, and the uniqueness
of the EMO Trans network. |
EMO Trans President Marco Rohrer paints
a cautious but openly optimistic future
for the global logistics service company.The
EMO Trans Mosaic |
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EMO Trans Mosaic is a collection of transportation
specialists from around the world who
have gathered together to form a resourceful,
expansive global resource. Here, we share some thoughts with folks from Europe, Africa, South America, and Asia. These short stories give a voice to the partners engaged in a logistics company that is going places. |
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 Cathy Roberson (above) of Logistics Trends & Insights along with Mike King & Associates are developing a new service tracking logistics trends in Asia Pacific. It’s called The APAC Forwarding Confidence Index. The index will track monthly opinion from forwarders, logistics providers, carriers, and shippers within Asia-Pacific and by way of international freight movements. “We are gathering input from a survey of shippers, forwarders, 3PL executives, agents, and shipping lines, Cathy Roberson said. “Our survey takes less than five minutes and will become the essential building block for our information stream,” Ms. Roberson added. To participate, please click here. Geoffrey |
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 The Third Annual Asia Summit Meeting during the EMO Global Meeting in Amelia Island. Front row left to right—EMO's China Team; EMO Korea; EMO Japan; Emo Rep. Gloria Legaste, RDM Philippines: and EMO Malaysia. Back row left to right—EMO Hong Kong; Stefan Ritter, MD EMO Germany; Tom Bayes, EMO Trans Director of Asia Development; Robin Finke, Corporate Manager Ocean Procurement; and EMO Trans Singapore. |
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Jimmy Breslin died on Sunday, March 19. He was 88 years old. That name might mean nothing to you, but Jimmy was New York City’s greatest tabloid columnist reporter. Damon Runyun is another name you should know— together, they were the two best Gotham beat writers during the 20th century. In 1986, Breslin won a Pulitzer Prize for columns he wrote in the New York Daily News. I worked in the general vicinity of Jimmy Breslin—albeit, way down the line—at 231 W 41st Street in Manhattan. We were both employed at The New York Herald Tribune in the 1960s. Back then, the Trib was a sanctuary for some of the most creative newspaper people in the world. As a young copy boy earning all of 42 bucks a week, I got to run around serving some of the great writers. Young and always out of money, I supplemented my income placing bets on slips of paper for the staff that gambled on horse races and sports via the press room, where the book was operated. I often found myself in Bleecks, a saloon just downstairs on 40th Street, where writers bellied up to the bar in between columns. Thinking of Jimmy brings back memories of a time when New York City was failing and deep in debt. It was 1969, and someone floated the idea that Norman Mailer and Jimmy both run on the same ticket for Mayor. Two firebrands—both very short tempered and ready to throw fists if things got hot—had a nanosecond shelf life in politics, but the idea lasted long enough to generate a few columns, including one by Joe Flaherty published on April 4, 1969, in The Village Voice. It was headlined: “The Mailer-Breslin Ticket: Vote the Rascals In.” The setting is a meeting at Norman’s house with Flaherty, Mailer, Breslin, Pete Hamill, John Scanlon, and others. “The evening itself,” Flaherty writes, “besides the guest list -- wasn't very impressive. “Like all such evenings attended by polemicists, it resembled the building of the Tower of Babel. “Right winger Noel Parmenter wanted Mailer to run alone on the ticket; others wanted him to run with Jimmy Breslin in an attempt to appeal to the working class. “Another group was pushing for a Black Panther to run for comptroller, and still another wanted a woman on the ticket to run on the platform of female rights. “Along about now I was wishing that Carmine DeSapio (a notorious clubhouse politician) would enter the room and restore some decent totalitarian clubhouse order. “I left the meeting,” Flahery writes “with Breslin, Pete Hamill, and John Scanlon. “Breslin, walking toward the St. George Hotel to hail a cab to Queens, turned to us and shouted into the Brooklyn night: “‘You know something? “‘That bum is serious!’” Once upon a time, Jimmy wrote the lead story in the NYHT Second Section. Art Buchwald was the other Second Section lead writer that alternated with Jimmy in the Trib. But Art was Washington political and Jimmy was New York street and neighborhoods, writing in powerful terms about people you never heard about: the every man. His columns were like short novels you simply could not put down. Jimmy was always about the forgotten working class person who he described in vivid and powerful, even hysterical terms. Want to read a book that will make you laugh the kind of guffaws that are therapeutic? Get Jimmy’s The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight. Here’s a taste: “Kid Sally Palumbo has been a loyal servant to the Brooklyn Mafia for years. His specialty is murder, and he is so skilled at it that he has gotten the attention of Mafia boss Papa Baccala. But unfortunately for Kid Sally, murder pays poorly. He wants to make real dough, to get respect, and to be able to tell his colleagues where to sit when they eat dinner. In short, he wants to be boss. The job would be his for the taking—if only Kid Sally weren’t a Grade A moron. “To keep Sally from stirring up trouble, Baccala tosses him an easy assignment: Organize a bicycle race through Brooklyn, and keep the profits. Kid Sally bungles it, setting off a turf war that quickly engulfs the borough. The dimwitted mobsters are masters in the art of murder, and they are about to put on a show,” Breslin wrote. Writer Tom Robbins told a revealing Breslin story that occurred during the time after President Kennedy was killed in 1963, when Jimmy was in Washington. While everybody else was milling around the White House looking for a quote, Jimmy looked the other way and went out to Arlington National Cemetery and wrote a story about the man who dug the slain President’s grave. Clifton Pollard told Jimmy digging John F. Kennedy’s grave both honored and humbled him. The story made history. Today, Tom Robbins is an investigative reporter in residence at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He wrote this lovely homage in New Yorker Magazine: “On the day in November, 2004, that he decided to stop writing his three columns a week for Newsday, I was in Cleveland in a drenching downpour watching voters line up outside polling places to cast ballots for John Kerry or George W. Bush. “Breslin called to ask how things looked. “‘Not good if you were a Democrat,’ I said. “When he casually mentioned that he was finally done with newspapers—he returned, in 2011, for a short stint at the Daily News—the dank, dismal day grew darker. “‘What will you do?’ I asked. “‘Write!’ he screamed through the phone. “‘I still have to make a living, don’t I?’” Geoffrey |
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