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    Vol. 13 No. 25                      THE AIR CARGO NEWS THOUGHT LEADER                              Wednesday March 12, 2014

 

EMO Trans Los Angeles Staff

Marco Rohrer and Jo Frigger     Top 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.”

TSA Certified Screening

     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.”

Varietal Service Menu

     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!

Where The Rubber Meets The Road

     Shipping 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.”
Geoffrey/Flossie


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