(Inhouse Magazine of WWL Group)

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MD’s Message 3

Birthday Babies 4

New Faces & Exits 5

WW WW News –

Who, What, When & Where 6-9

Know your Colleague 10-11

Industry News 12-13

IT Awareness 14

Dear Worldwideans,

Season’s Greetings!

We have been doing brisk business with various US destinations, for TCP, AEO, Gerber, etc.

There has been a marked increase in the tonnage during last couple of months.

Also, we managed to get better airfreight rates with few airlines for the next couple of

months (EK, QR, LH & Aeroflot) for Delhi, Chennai and Cochin. Lot of cargo is moving from

Tirupur/Cochin thru Bengaluru, so BLR station is becoming an important zone. BLR has to

now take the lead to move forward and get good pricing from the airlines. Similarly,

Mumbai should work closely with Delhi to get the best rates.

The competition has been cut throat and the shippers like Kitex & JJ Mills were aggressive to

renegotiate the freight rates. With lot of hardwork, we managed to hold the customers with

us.

WWL’s latest brainchild, Worldwide Transport Solutions has started its operations from

Bengaluru. I congratulate Mr Rajamani and his team and wish them the very best in

capturing this new market. May it spread wings all through India, like its parent, and bring

prosperity to all of us.

Several cities in India, especially Chennai, have been reeling under severe water shortage due

to dry monsoon and due to other man-made reasons. This has been getting attention

globally. Let us pray for the current monsoon season to bring the much awaited relief to all.

I congratulate all those who got their increments and promotion this year and wish them all

to work smart and be proactive.

Best wishes,

Bala

Birthday Babies

SNo Employee Name Date of

Birth Location

1 Ajay Kumar Rana 1-Jul GURGON

2 Ramamurthy R R 1-Jul VIZAG

3 Ankit Sharma 3-Jul GURGON

4 Shanmugam S 5-Jul CORPORATE CHENNAI

5 Rajan V S 5-Jul CHENNAI - CORPORATE

6 Liam Valerian Misquitta 11-Jul Mumbai

7 Chandrasekaran R 13-Jul TUTICORIN

8 Guru Prasad H R 14-Jul Bangalore – Logistics

9 Amzad Ali 15-Jul Bangalore

10 Sundaramoorthi M 15-Jul CHENNAI - CORPORATE

11 Kameswara Rao 15-Jul VIZAG

12 Nagarajan M 16-Jul CORPORATE CHENNAI

13 Sandhiya R 21-Jul CHENNAI (PORT OFFICE)

14 Bhupender Saini 22-Jul GURGAON

15 Vaishnavi S 22-Jul Chennai - Corporate

16 Lokesh B Sharma 23-Jul AHMEDABAD

17 Sathiya K 23-Jul CHENNAI – CORPORAT E SALES

18 Vishal 23-Jul GURGAON

19 Prithivi Raj 29-Jul CHENNAI - CORPORATE

WWL wishes them all a Happy Birthday!!

SNo Employee Name Branch Designation / Department

1 ADITHYA.M JR- Sales Executive CORP-CHENNAI

2 KEERTHANA. P Trainee- Air Imports CORP-CHENNAI

3 VICTORIYA. G Trainee-Operations CORP-CHENNAI

4 SATEESH KUMAR Executive -operations VIZAG

5 ASHOK KUMAR. B Branch Manager – WWL Transport Solutions

CHENNAI OCEAN

6 JYOTHI.V Executive – WWL Transport Solutions

BANGALORE

7 RAJAMANI CEO – WWL Transport Solutions

BANGALORE

8 SUJIT BHATTACHARYA Business Head KOLKATA

9 SANJAY BHOWMIK Manager – Customer Service KOLKATA

10 ASIM SAHA Asst. Manager – Sales KOLKATA

11 SOMSURVA BISWAS Sr. Executive – Customer Service

KOLKATA

12 SUSTAN GHOSH Executive – Customs KOLKATA

13 KAUSTUV RAY Sr. Executive Import KOLKATA

14 RAJAGANESH Manager – HR Logistics CORP-CHENNAI

SNo Employee Name Branch Designation / Department

1 Tejal Nainish Pathare SR.EXECUTIVE OPERATION MUMBAI

2 Lalitha.V ADMIN CORP-CHENNAI

3 JAHEER. A S EXECUTIVE-AIR IMPORTS BANGALORE

4 Prudhvi Raj EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS BANGALORE

5 ASHOK SANKPAL SR.EXECUTIVE MUMBAI

AIB Volleyball Team:

WWL Team at Autoliv project won the final match of volleyball on 16th June under the

captainship of Mr BC Gangadhar. The winning team list:

1. BC Gangadhar – Captain & Organizer

2. Ramanjanappa – FG Area

3. Karthik – RM Stores

4. Koushik – FG In Charge

5. Sanjay - RM Stores

6. Vijendra – RM Stores

7. Anil - AIB –Finance Area

8. Hemanth Pawar – MR Team

WWL Transport:

A new baby from the WWL Family – WWL Transport Solutions Pvt. Ltd. started its operations in

Bengaluru from 23rd June. Mr Rajamani is the new CEO for this division. Let us pray for the

blockbuster success of this new addition.

Mr Veeru’s House Wedding:

Veeru’s son Jagdeesh got married to Revathi on 13th June. The glittering ceremony

was attended by many Worldwideans from across India, apart from Corporate. We

all wish the newly married couple togetherness, happiness, health and wealth.

Suresh & Belliraj Wedding Potluck:

Worldwideans in the Corporate office had hosted a potluck for Suresh & Belliraj families on

26th June, who got married recently. Suresh’s wife joined him but Belliraj’s wife could not join

us. The Wreck area was flowing with delicious homemade food items, dessert etc. brought

by the Worldwideans themselves.

Know Your Colleague

Yaseen Khan, Manager Sales, Bengaluru

1. Your take on the WWL family (colleagues as well as the bosses)

Excellent Bosses always reachable, Encouraging and with Inspiring colleagues who

take up any job and do it as if it’s their own responsibility ….Keep me strong and

make me feel more confident without turning back but to move forward in future.

2. What do you personally like about the office/work?

Good Work culture, Pleasant attitude of colleagues, Day on Day challenges in sales

keeps me busy.

3. What are your interests / hobbies (or) how do you spend your free time?

Watching TV comedy, Reading Books.

4. Tell us about your family members.

Wife is a homemaker. I have one daughter studying in 9th std.

5. Your future plans for the family?

Move into my own home.

6. Your mantra for success in life?

‘Live and Let Live’, Work Hard, ‘Never Ever Give up’.

7. You are a fan of …..(actor/actress or any artist)

Jason Statham

8. Favourite Song / Movie you often hum/see?

Transporter series

9. A place you want to visit

All European countries

10. Things on your ‘to-do’ list

Hajj

Saudi Airlines Cargo Company has launched two new routes, from-to Athens, Greece and

Marrakesh, Morocco starting June 2019, aiming to meet the growing demand for cargo

operations and stimulate trade movement to/from both destinations. Through these flights,

Saudia Cargo aims to increase its presence in the African and European continents in order to

cater to the exceeding demand for air cargo and logistical services.

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Shipping a container has been a complex process for many years. Manual and in-efficient, the

buying and booking process has been often full of surprises. With the launch of Maersk Spot,

Maersk aims to introduce a truly online product that can break the cycle of overbookings and

offer a much simpler way to ship a container with load guarantee.

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To further promote ease of doing business with Hapag-Lloyd, its Chennai office has initiated

electronic filing of Shipping Bill (e-SB) through the Export General Manifest (EGM) module of the

online portal ODeX. This platform is free of charge and has several benefits:

* Linkage with eForm 13 and eVGM module for smoother workflow

* ODeX provides the option of uploading the Shipping Bill EDI, eliminating data entry errors

* Simplified GST refund procedure due to errorless EGM data

* Provides a single platform for attaching and storing documents such as Shipping Bill/EIR/Tally

sheet or stuffing report

* Customers are no longer required to visit surveyors’ office to submit the hard copy of the

Shipping Bill

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Lufthansa Cargo is now offering its customers wide-ranging, digital cargo acceptance and

delivery services as part of its eFreight initiative. Valuable time can be saved through the use of

self-service terminals and related apps for mobile devices as well as the digital transfer of

shipment data and status updates between the airline and customers. Before delivery, the

PreCheck service verifies the completeness and consistency of the data transferred. This further

boosts data quality, significantly reduces laborious and time-consuming corrections during cargo

acceptance and can even help to prevent returns, informed a release.

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Freightos has recently launched a new online pricing and booking portal for airfreight as the

digitisation of the sector continues to gather pace. The free WebCargo Sky platform is available

to IATA certified airfreight forwarders and as well as offering instant pricing from more than 370

airlines, will allow forwarders to book “real-time capacity” on British Airways, Iberia, Air France

KLM and Lufthansa.

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Indian airline Vistara (Tata SIA Airlines) has selected the nGen Cargo system for its international

and domestic cargo operations. The nGen systems by Cargo Flash will provide end-to-end

solution for reservation, operations and revenue management for Vistara’s cargo business.

The cloud-based cargo systems will not only ensure to streamline and manage each logistics task

from initial booking till final delivery but also seamlessly and effectively control all functions

related to pricing, invoicing, Business Intelligence, MIS and more.

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DB Schenker has opened a new entity in textile hub Bangladesh, identified as a priority market for

the global freight forwarder with headquarters in Germany. Said a spokesperson for the logistics

player: “Whereas before, customers relied on the service of a partner, Schenker Logistics

(Bangladesh) Limited will now be fully operational as a local entity under the global freight

forwarders India cluster organisation.

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MAERSK is aiming to reduce its reliance on shipping for its income within “a couple of years”,

according to chief executive Søren Skou. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr Skou

said the world’s biggest commercial shipping operator would focus more on inland logistics, with

plans to buy warehouses, container terminals and customs brokerage firms.

“Today, up to 80% of our earnings comes from container shipping,” he told the newspaper.

“Hopefully a couple of years from now, we will be much closer to a 50:50 scenario between ocean

and non-ocean services.”

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Cargolux has introduced a route which connects Luxembourg to the Indonesian capital.

According to Cargolux, they are the only cargo carrier to offer a direct main deck connection

between Europe and Indonesia. This position, coupled with the company’s fleet of 747 freighters,

allows the company to cater for a wide variety of commodities, as well as off-size freight such as

oil and gas industry equipment, machinery, spare parts or aircraft engines. The main cargo

transiting through the area will include apparel, footwear, pharmaceuticals perishables and live

animals.

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