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Damco Awarded Best Clearing Agent the Year 2010 by International Produce Limited - "Damco South Africa were chosen as winner of this Award for their proactive approach to managing the IPL business..."

April 2010 - Damco Reefer South Africa was presented with the Best Clearing Agent of the Year 2010 Award at the first annual International Produce Limited Logistics Conference in Leeds, United Kingdom this week.

International Produce Ltd. (IPL) is a wholly owned entity of ASDA Wal*Mart - one of the UK’s leading supermarkets, sourcing from quality growers worldwide to provide the best value fresh produce. IPL manages a number of ‘categories’ on behalf of ASDA Wal*Mart, including top fruit, melons, stone fruit, grapes, citrus, salads, bananas and 'exotics'.

The Award comes as recognition of the work that Damco Reefer South Africa, in conjunction with their colleagues in the United Kingdom, have put in over the last five years to provide Reefer Logistics services for International Produce Ltd. - allowing top levels of on shelf availability and low cost to its customers.

"Damco South Africa were chosen as winner of this Award for their proactive approach to managing the IPL business. Damco not only display a really keen approach to communication back to the UK Head Office, but also engage in innovation at a strategic level. IPL felt Damco's recent investment in managers with Reefer specialist knowledge showed its commitment to the category and to IPL.’ - said Jason Kelly, Operation Director, International Produce Ltd.

Through offering value adding, flexible and customised solutions, dedicated industry specialists at Damco worked hard to build the long term partnership with IPL.

The model that Damco has helped IPL create in South Africa, is now being extended through 'ex works' purchasing to other sourcing areas around the world. For the first time this season product ex Chile, the second largest deep see origin for IPL, is moving on the ex works basis and managed by Damco Chile.

Dawie Kok, General Manager for Reefer South Africa says: "Damco is very honoured to be named as IPL's Best Clearing Agent of Year for 2010. Receiving such Award is very motivating and highlights Damco's dedication to service delivery and our passion for customers. Damco is committed to developing our relationship with IPL and strive to support IPL even further on strategic logistics initiatives."

About Damco

Damco is the new, combined brand of the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group's logistics activities. Damco offers a broad range of supply chain management and freight forwarding services to customers all over the world, and has 10,500 employees in over 280 owned offices across 90 countries with representation in 120 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America. In 2009, the company had a net turnover of over USD 2.0 billion, managed more than 2.3 million TEU of ocean freight and supply chain management volumes and air freighted more than 60,000 tonnes. Damco is an independent business activity within the A.P. Moller - Maersk Group.

For more information contact:

Yulia Mozhaeva
Marketing and Communications
Phone: 01394 614 711
Email: yulia.mozhaeva@damco.com
Web: www.damco.com

Submitted by: LogisticsWorld
news@logisticsworld.com, 6/7/2010 5:15:01 AM

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