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trailer world issue one 2015

18      Issue One 2015 Logistics TAILORED INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS The success of logistics group trans-o-flex, which operates all across Europe, is based on three segments whose services can be combined if and as much as is required: quick delivery service, ThermoMed, and logistics. The quick delivery service offers a network spanning across all of Germany, in order to safely and efficiently transport packages and pallets. This includes many express and additional services, such as hazard goods transport. At the same time, as board member and partner of the Eurodis network, trans-o-flex provides the safety of multi-freight haulage across all 34 European countries. The logistics provider has developed many special industry solutions, for example, for the pharma- ceuticals industry or the entertainment and households appliances sectors. Through a special network with active temperature control, trans-o-flex delivers temperature-sensitive goods primarily in the range between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius. In addition, ThermoMed offers transports with active tem- perature control through the Eurotemp network to 15 countries in Europe. The logistics service develops and implements comprehensive logistics solutions, from storage and picking to value-added services, such as setting up hoardings or electronic devices and customised transport networks. The group, who employs around 1,800 people, generated an annual turnover of about EUR 505 million in 2013. trans-o-flex has been a 100% subsidiary of the Austrian Post since June 2008. the tightened rules of the Good Distribu- tion Practice (GDP). This EU regulation has been in force since 2013 and aims at "good distribution practice" for drugs, guarantee- ing safe-and-sound product delivery to the customer. It took six months of planning and preparation, as well as one month of test- ing under real-life conditions to estab- lish the nationwide trans-o-flex network ambient. The pilot-phase customer was renowned drug producer and research company Berlin-Chemie. "Every day dur- ing the pilot project, trans-o-flex sent someone to our Berlin location to pick up two semi-trailers filled with tem- perature-sensitive goods and delivered them through the new ambient network," Bernd Kühn, Manager Domestic Distri- bution at Berlin-Chemie, explains. "We were very satisfied with the entire process chain and documentation, and especially the high-quality of the deliveries." In the meantime, numerous other clients besides Berlin-Chemie have chosen the innova- tive pharmaceuticals logistics solution. Investment in countrywide network The trans-o-flex group has invested sever- al million euro in its GDP-compliant net- work. In addition to infrastructure invest- ments, the company bought 150 actively temperature-controlled semi-trailers for commercial goods transport, 60 fully temperature-controlled trucks for pallet pick-up and delivery, as well as around 1,500 distribution vehicles with fixed cli- mate-controlled box installations. The climate-controlled storage boxes come in »We expect transports with active temperature control and continuous temperature monitoring to become standard across the industry in two years' time.« Christian Knoblich, Managing Director of trans-o-flex Logistics Group

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