Schenker and BAX Global go together with BOC Edwards
Adding European land distribution to established contract Existing services include global air and sea freight
News Item Entered: Thursday, November 02, 2006
(Essen / Irvine / London, 11/02/2006) Schenker and BAX Global have strengthened their cooperation with BOC Edwards following their appointment as sole provider of European land distribution services between its primary service hub in Brno, Czech Republic and European customer base.
BAX Global has been BOC Edwards’ exclusive provider of air and sea freight forwarding services between the UK and US since 2005. The recent merger with Schenker has enabled the new joint organization to broaden its service offering to BOC Edwards to include European trucking services, leveraging Schenker’s dominant position as the market leader in European land transport services. Schenker will be providing a complex mix of road transport services throughout Europe.
BOC Edwards, is a world leader in vacuum technology for industrial, scientific, process, and semiconductor applications.
Howard Linton, General Manager Global Supply Chain Logistics at BOC Edwards said, “We were able to leverage our existing relationship with BAX Global to gain access to Schenker’s extensive European transport network. BAX Global has established a strategic understanding of our business needs and in partnership with its Schenker colleagues has delivered an innovative cost effective solution to BOC Edwards.”
Richard Charles, EMEA Regional Director Sales at BAX Global said, “This award is demonstration of the combined strength of Schenker and BAX Global. Like many of our customers, BOC Edwards is benefiting from the joint forces of two highly complementary service providers.”
Together Schenker and BAX Global are now the world’s No 1 source for European land transportation, No 2 for global airfreight, No 3 resource for global seafreight, No 6 for global contract logistics and No 3 for North American integrated heavy freight.
BOC Edwards is a member of The Linde Group. A world leader in vacuum technology for industrial, scientific, process and semiconductor applications. The business designs, manufactures and supports equipment capable of achieving high vacuums down to 10-10 mbar. In addition to vacuum pumps and systems, BOC Edwards partners with semiconductor fabs, foundries and process tool manufacturers, to provide process-enabling subsystems, supported by best-in-class operations and maintenance services worldwide.
The Linde Group is a world leading industrial gases and engineering company with more than 53,000 employees working in around 70 countries worldwide. Following the acquisition of The BOC Group the company has gases and engineering sales of approximately €12 billion. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. For more information, please see The Linde Group online at www.linde.com. Specific information on BOC Edwards can be found at www.bocedwards.com.
BAX Global Inc., with worldwide headquarters in Irvine, California, is a US $2.9 billion supply chain management and transportation solutions company offering multi-modal logistics management for business-to-business shippers through a global network of nearly 500 offices in 136 countries with about 12,000 employees. BAX Global is a part of DB Logistics, the Transportation and Logistics Division of Deutsche Bahn AG.
With annual sales of 8.9 billion euros, 42,000 employees and about 1,100 offices around the world, Schenker is one of the world's leading providers of integrated logistics services, offering land operations, air and sea freight as well as comprehensive logistics solutions and global supply chain management from a single source. Schenker is a part of DB Logistics, the Transportation and Logistics Division of Deutsche Bahn AG.