To meet the demand of business development and service system upgrading, the Sea Dept. in Hong Kong HQ made a personnel adjustment in early April, aiming to advance the department's development in a more efficient and all-around way.
The main adjustment is to promote some senior and experienced colleagues from shipping supervisors to line managers. They will gather and manage other colleagues as a team, develop and expand their appointed lines together. There are five teams as follows:
（1）Europe（Ms. Candy Chiang）
In charge of European continent, main target areas are EU countries.
（2）Mediterranean（Mr. Yan Poon）
Taking Italy, Spain & Turkey as the chief part, meanwhile expanding to other Mediterranean regions or countries.
（3）Australia & New Zealand（Ms. Bondy Ng）
Developing shipments to base ports of Aus. & N.Z., as well as other pacific countries.
（4）USA & Canada（New blood: Mr. Lurk Cheung, acting line manager）
Focusing on the whole North America.
（5）Import & Re-export（Ms. Annie Leung）
Taking care of all the import shipments, and arrange all the re-export shipments in/out inland points of China.
All the newly-promoted line managers have worked in this field for more than ten years, they are very experienced and energetic, so certainly they can take good care of their own lines, and complete daily management of documents and operations well.
The adjustment makes the whole Sea Dept. operate with separate teams in which the colleagues can work together, coordinate & help each other, thus improves the past situation of working alone. The line managers can communicate with their term members or upper management about issues of business development, rates, marketing or operation. They can also put up their suggestions to all the branches in mainland China and share their skills with the branches. Moreover, the top management can also participate in the management more directly and effectively, which is very helpful to improve the service level of all the lines.
In addition, the principle of this adjustment is focusing on promotion of colleagues from the inside of the group. This will encourage other colleagues to keep improving themselves actively, by this means, both the competence and morale of our colleagues will be enhanced. At the same time, our colleagues?sense of belonging to the company will be fostered.
As the general manager in PRC, my primary task is to integrate all the branches to hold them together and coordinate with the regional offices systematically, in the hope of pushing forward the development of the whole group. We all know that it's harmful to the benefits of the whole group if all the branches only care about their own interests. Meantime, I will also, immediately, spread the project of direct consolidation to all the main branches, like Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao, Ningbo, Guangzhou, Xiamen and etc.
In terms of the expansion of overseas agents, we have already reached some preliminary agreements with some agents who are planning to explore and develop their market in China. We will try to develop FCL and LCL service with them together. Al-Wallan Logistics from Saudi Arabian, one of the successful cases, has already consigned some shipments to several of our branches, so I am very optimistic about the future cooperation between us. Besides, our new agent in Germany---Transmaritime International also made a good performance and helped us a lot in promoting our market share in the market of Germany.
Hope we can make strenuous efforts together, and strive for our common success!