Thursday, 10 July 2008
Moving Freight Around The World - It is Easy?
I needed to get directly involved in some important freight movements this week. It served as a great reminder to me how important people are. Some of the challenges I faced included amending air waybill destinations, terminating a through air waybill at the transit point, express freight and call China export shed at 4am to make sure a shipment had been loaded.
All areas that are bread and butter to move a shipment around the world especially when the reasons for airfreight are just in time because of a factory break down or similar emergency. I probably irritated some of our UK and global team with constant questions, but I saw again that our industry is a people industry. People in London talking to people in China to make the difficult happen. Even my 13 year old son, who thinks everything I do is boring, said "It was cool that I was talking to people around the world". When our best asset is our people, we must work hard to make sure that we look after it.
All areas that are bread and butter to move a shipment around the world especially when the reasons for airfreight are just in time because of a factory break down or similar emergency. I probably irritated some of our UK and global team with constant questions, but I saw again that our industry is a people industry. People in London talking to people in China to make the difficult happen. Even my 13 year old son, who thinks everything I do is boring, said "It was cool that I was talking to people around the world". When our best asset is our people, we must work hard to make sure that we look after it.
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