Friday, 12 September 2008
China update
Linda Yang and I have travelled to Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan and Qingdao over the last 2 weeks. We presented to 100+ JHJ staff from these locations, plus numerous other regional JHJ offices with our ideas on how we are going to build our Chinese Business Development team in Europe. I was overwhelmed by the intelligent and visionary discussions we had, I am excited about the proposed future plans and I am looking forward to working closer together. Prior to this overseas trip to China, I thought I had decent knowledge about our JHJ China joint venture, but now my eyes are truly opened.
We operate in many locations that other major multi national logistics companies do not. We actually rent office space to some of them and complete local services for them such as customs clearance and commodity quality checks. Our staff are intelligent, graduate educated and treat every shipment and client as though it is their own business. The management are passionate and treat their staff as though they are their own family, all in all, we have awe inspiring offices.
I met many great people including a wonderful professional in Qingdao who reads all my blogs so I must say hello. Hi Lucy Fan, it was great to meet you and thank you for developing your European expertise and looking after the needs of YRCL Europe and our clients the importers and exporters, and thank you very much for all your hospitality.
Lastly before I travelled to China I planned to reward any of our staff that stood out from my meetings in China. To that note I am proud to say that Martin Wall was given huge praise from many offices. It seems Martin has been able to not only provide great service and communication to our JHJ offices but he has understood the special needs to deal with this market. Martin and I have worked together for over 12years at YRCL and he does provide extraordinary service to our clients. Martin, I thank you and you will receive £500 as a special reward in your salary.
In a few hours I will be heading home with much to do, but also with much excitement about the future development of our China team in Europe.
We operate in many locations that other major multi national logistics companies do not. We actually rent office space to some of them and complete local services for them such as customs clearance and commodity quality checks. Our staff are intelligent, graduate educated and treat every shipment and client as though it is their own business. The management are passionate and treat their staff as though they are their own family, all in all, we have awe inspiring offices.
I met many great people including a wonderful professional in Qingdao who reads all my blogs so I must say hello. Hi Lucy Fan, it was great to meet you and thank you for developing your European expertise and looking after the needs of YRCL Europe and our clients the importers and exporters, and thank you very much for all your hospitality.
Lastly before I travelled to China I planned to reward any of our staff that stood out from my meetings in China. To that note I am proud to say that Martin Wall was given huge praise from many offices. It seems Martin has been able to not only provide great service and communication to our JHJ offices but he has understood the special needs to deal with this market. Martin and I have worked together for over 12years at YRCL and he does provide extraordinary service to our clients. Martin, I thank you and you will receive £500 as a special reward in your salary.
In a few hours I will be heading home with much to do, but also with much excitement about the future development of our China team in Europe.
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