The European launch of the Global Institute of Logistics’s Maritime Logistics Council was held on Tuesday 3rd October in the Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels. The Council was launched as a major initiative by the Institute to develop joined-up thinking in maritime logistics.

The Council provides the global maritime logistics industry with a forum through which global shippers, 3PLs, carriers, port authorities and terminal operators could collaborate closely to share their knowledge, so as to improve supply chain efficiency and security.

The Council had its Asian launch in Shanghai in April of this year and its US launch in Atlanta in June.

The Executive Directors of the Maritme Logistics Council are Wilmer Aguilar Yantian International Container Terminals, Marc Castagnet, SgT, Michael Stolarcyzk Exel USA, Paul Goldsbrough Hellmann Worldwide Logistics and Ben Cook Home Depot

The formation of the Council has been widely welcomed in the Industry and now enjoys the support of some of the worlds leading shippers and logistics service providers.

Both China and the USA now have their own Chapters within the Council and it is expected that the formation of a European Chapter will follow the Council’s launch in Brussels. The first meeting of the China Chapter was held in the Hilton Hotel, Shanghai on Saturday 16th September.

The Global Institute of Logistics is a community of logisticians and supply chain professionals drawn from the global business community who support the Institutes objectives of creating end-to-end integration and visibility in the global supply chain.

The Institute actively fosters and promotes relationship orientation as its key change agent and catalyst in pursuit of these objectives.

Relationship orientation refers to the proactive creation, development and maintenance of relationships between global supply chain partners resulting in mutual exchange and fulfillment of promises at a profit.

It is the Institutes assertion that the greater the level of relationship orientation between stakeholders, the greater the operational logistics service quality improvements that will result.

The Institute acts in a binary fashion to bring stakeholders together through thought leadership.

This leadership finds expression through RELAY is the Institute’s Official Business Quarterly Magazine and www.globeinst.org the Institute’s online news and research portal, which archives best practice and also through the various Councils chaired and organized by leading professional and populated by industry experts.

The Institute promotes logistics in mainstream media in pursuit of its stated aim of achieving board level status for the profession of logistics and supply chain. We are an accredited news provider to all of the world’s leading search engines including Google and Yahoo. In the past year, press statements issued by the Institute have been accessed more than 500.000 times on the World Wide Web

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