Global logistics provider Damco has opened a commercial office in Balikpapan, a seaport city in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan.
The new office will offer supply chain management and freight forwarding services, as well as convenient access to the local airport, seaport, nearby provinces, and downtown.
“The new Balikpapan branch will enable us to hire and house the logistics experts we need to support the growth of our key customers in Balikpapan, in sectors such as industrial manufacturing and machinery, oil and gas, mining and retail,” stated Peter Gunzelmann, managing director of PT Damco Indonesia.
East Kalimantan is one of the richest areas in Indonesia in natural resources, especially oil, natural gas, coal and timber, and is the most significant of the five Kalimantan provinces in business potential, said Damco.
Balikpapan will be the fifth commercial office that PT Damco Indonesia is operating, joining others located in Medan, Jakarta (head office), Semarang, and Surabaya.
On the other hand, Yusen Logistics, through warehousing subsidiary Suzhou Yusen Logistics Service Co., has begun operating a temperature- and humidity-controlled facility in its general bonded zone warehouse at Suzhou Industrial Park in Suzhou, China.
Occupying 5,000 square meters of warehousing space, the bonded facility provides bonded storage, packaging, labeling and other logistics services to electronics parts manufacturers, materials manufacturers, and other customers through its bonded logistics scheme.
A two-hour drive from Shanghai Pudong International Airport and 90 minutes from the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port, the facility serves as an export-import logistics hub for customers doing business in eastern China.
“Recently, there has been an increase in demand for precision goods requiring strict temperature and humidity control. In response, Suzhou Yusen Logistics installed a temperature- and humidity-control system in the warehouse,” a company statement declared.
The new equipment enables rigorous management of temperature and humidity 24 hours a day, all year long, including temperature and humidity adjustment and recording. Warehousing rooms can be divided to provide various temperature settings.
Suzhou Yusen Logistics said it intends to collaborate with sister companies in China to offer air and ocean forwarding, along with LTL services, to expand its service offerings.
