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Transport & Logistics

9 September 2011

Dockx Group with the companies Dockx Rental, Dockx Movers, Dockx Logistics, Dockx Industries - Lombaerts en Markant participate in the Transport & Logistics Fair.

This year the bi-yearly event will be held in the Antwerp Expo Hall, from September 20th until September 22nd 2011. With 9000 visitors and 300 exhibitors, this professional fair is the logistics event of the year.

We gladly invite you to visit us at booth c1041.

Do you have already an entrance card?

If you or your colleagues don’t have a free entrance card, please use link below and register online:
http://www.dockx-logistics.be/antwerp-expo

It would be our pleasure to meet you at our booth. Come and see us and receive a small gift.

New: Tag-team Transport between Belgium and Switzerland

16 November 2010

Early in October 2010, Dockx Logistics - Tolimpex launched a new service in conjunction with our Swiss partner Interfracht: tag-team transport deliveries between Belgium and Switzerland.

On top of the daily, direct groupage transport between Belgium and Switzerland, this service guarantees faster transit time for large and small shipments at attractive prices. It’s a way to avoid the traffic jams and ensure that the mandatory driver rest times are respected.

Groupage lorries are unloaded and loaded every day during the day in Belgium and Switzerland. That is done both directly at the client location and at our groupage centres in Antwerp and Basel. The drivers who take care of those shipments only drive during the day.

The night drivers depart with their loaded lorries from Antwerp and Basel and drive towards each other, meeting up at Metz. In Metz, they trade lorries: the Swiss driver takes the Belgian lorry and the Belgian driver takes the Swiss one. They arrive back at their starting point the next morning and the daytime drivers unload and reload their lorries.

Do you have 6 pallets ready to go that have to be loaded in Antwerp today and delivered in Basel tomorrow? It is possible. You want them delivered in the morning? That is possible, too.

Call today and ask our experts about our prices or more information:

• Joeri Claes, +32 (0)3 544 16 84, joeri.claes@dockx-logistics.be
• Dirk Peeters, +32 (0)3 544 16 97, dirk.peeters@dockx-logistics.be
• Bert Van Geffen, +32 (0)3 544 16 93, bert.vangeffen@dockx-logistics.be

Dockx Logistics - Tolimpex supports project aid program for villages in Mali

10 May 2010

Our special attention goes to a project helping farmers in Mali to become independent. This happens by making use of micro credit facilities: all machines and tools for the farmers will be paid back after a period.

A lot of villages in Mali have a similar problem: clean, drinkable water and so this is the ideal starting point to motivate villagers to cooperate.

The villages get a draw-well, a wind-mill and after a while distribution possibilities enabling to distribute the water over several points in the village.
As a compensation they have to cultivate Jatropha Curcas (Jatropa is comparable to rapeseed: oil containing seeds that can be used as fuel).

If the local people cooperate well, a multi functional platform will be built after some years. This starts with a Diesel engine: during daytime used for cultivating the land or as a mean of transport during the dry season, thereafter a grinding mill or generator etc. are added.

The result should be:

• During the morning women grind flour, make pastry or prepare cereals
• During daytime everybody cultivates the land
• During the afternoon and in the evening the electricity generator is used so:
  • men are able to do artisanal work
  • women can prepare fruit and vegetables
  • Children have light to study

Everything is paid back by the harvest of Jatropha. The co-operation has income thanks to the contribution of the villagers (part of the harvest) and by transferring the seeds into fuel (Bio-Diesel) and fertilizer.

In fact this is not traditional development aid: it is an education plan helping the farmers to get out of their misery. Projects like this demand a lot of energy and money. In the near future these projects will be supported by the Province of West Flanders who also appreciate this concept. At this moment 3 villages are already working like this, with some extra support a full network can be realized, which is the final goal.

A local co-operation is already established Belafrique, more specific questions for more info on how you can help this project, can be achieved via marc@belafrique.be.

Dockx Logistics - Tolimpex supports the WCA Family Haïti Relief Fund

1 February 2010

WCA Family Haiti Relief Fund

Empathy is one of the corporate values of the Dockx Group. Dockx Logistics - Tolimpex could not just do nothing when being confronted with the recent natural disaster in Haiti. During the recent World Cargo Alliance conference in Bangkok, January 2010, many members wanted to contribute to Haiti relief and support the population of Haiti, during this extremely difficult period.

WCA have established a section of their website to allow donations to Haiti Relief.

We invite you to check this link and donate whatever you can, to help Haiti and its people. WCA Family quotes Buddha: “If you know what I knew about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass, without sharing it in some way”.

Royal shipment for Dockx Logistics - Tolimpex

24 November 2009

Nous étions contactés par le pianiste jazz célébré King Wizzy, après une série de concerts avec grand succès en Europe, dont celui à Bruxelles était le dernier. Les instruments, installation et effets personnels du pianiste devraient être renvoyés en Uganda, emballés avec soin dans un container de 20’.

King Wizzy est le nom d’artiste du Prince Ndawula David, le fils du Prince Simbwa de Bulange Mnego et la Princesse Gertrude Komuntale du Royaume Toro. Il joue avec un ton très mélodieux, avec un rythme jamais trop vite.

L’envoi et la documentation en douane se passait impeccablement, grâce à l’équipe Dockx Logistics - Tolimpex, avec son département en douane.