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Complete transport package Dutch style
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THREE Dutch companies, each one an acknowledged leader in a special field of business, have founded a joint consultancy organisation to cover all activities associated with the movement, handling and storage of goods.
Under the name Business Logistics Systems, DAF Trucks, Van Gend & Loos, and Philips Industries have joined forces to tackle transport problems and to offer "turnkeysolutions at home and overseas.
An important point in this connection is the single comprehensive guarantee given for the cost, the time needed for the implementation of a new project, and the operation of the system chosen.
In projects demanding expertise of a kind not normally claimed by any of the three partners, assistance will be obtained from other specialist companies. In the financial field, for example, BLS has already secured the services of the internationally active AM RO (Amsterdam-Rotterdam) Bank.
As already stated the area of operation is worldwide, but BLS is primarily interested in projects offering fairly large scope for its services. In the developed countries these opportunities will occur mainly in the area of transport integration and optimisation of resources. In developing countries the additional facilities needed, such as temporary management and personnel training, will also form part of the BLS package deals.
It is expected that the formation of the new group will also enable the partners to enter markets jointly which individually they might find difficult if not impossible to penetrate. The combined strength of BLS should help to promote the sale of existing products and provide the base for the development of new technology which may. be called for by the specific needs of certain territories.
The contribution by DAF Trucks to the road transport scene in the Netherlands — where the company holds a share of approximately 40 per cent in the sale of cv exceeding nine tonnes — and in export markets is already sufficiently well known.
Van Gend and Loos, as a subsidiary of the Dutch State Railways, employs a fleet of over 1700 vehicles, has 100 depots in the Netherlands and abroad, and is associated with 40 other companies in the transport, shipping and warehousing sector.
It may be recalled that Philips, were instrumental a few years ago in the experimental application of the Stirling "external combustion" engine to a DAF psv chassis. Then there is the vast "inhouse" experience, with transport and distribution problems arising from the scale of the Philips Group's activities which, worldwide, involve over 350,000 employees.
Recent Philips work in the road traffic sector has included the completion of a highly sophisticated control system for Mexico City. Here a novel "district computermethod is monitoring and regulating the vehicle flow at no fewer than 1 600 road intersections.