Vanguard Logistics honoured by CEVA for best practice ocean supplier

VANGUARD Logistics Services has received CEVA's 2012 Ocean Supplier of the Year Award in recognition of best practice and excellence among CEVA's supplier base worldwide.

The event held in Spain was attended by 50 suppliers from around the world. The company was given the honour for the role it has played in developing CEVA's Less-than-Container Load (LCL) oceanfreight services during 2011.

Bruno Sidler, chief operating officer, CEVA, said in a statement: "Vanguard's innovative support of the development of our LCL operations over the past year have been impressive. The systems they have developed allow us complete visibility of our volumes and also provide us with intelligent data on how we are able to best ship items on our customers' behalf using our network. Oceanfreight is one of our strategic priorities and the growth of our LCL offerings is evidence of how we are capitalizing on the opportunities in the marketplace."

The systems provided by Vanguard have allowed its customer to more than quadruple the number of LCL lanes worldwide over the past year and enabled the consolidation of volumes to benefit the bottom line.

"The technology developed by our company for CEVA has allowed them to create a global LCL solution," said Rob Sutton, VP commercial development, Vanguard USA.