Logistika Magazine Issue 9 / November 2011

Anyone can transport a regular load, but not everybody can transport an oversized load. Or, as Mladen Ganchev, General Manager of Holleman Bulgaria, puts it - oversized loads are a simple business for smart people. The operations are very specific, and require special equipment, special skills, special organization as well as permits. In order to help its readers, LOGISTIKA magazine decided to ask the leading companies in the industry about the particularities of their operations, and received responses from 10 managers of leading Bulgarian transportation companies.

Logistika Magazine Issue 8 / October 2011

When we started to prepare this overview we knew that transportation packaging is a vast field. So we focused our coverage on two types of packaging – corrugated fiberboard boxes and stretch film for palletized goods.

Logistika Magazine Issue 6 / July 2011

Almost half of the borders of Bulgaria are water borders. This predetermines the paramount role of ports as connections to the rest of the world. LOGISTKA magazine decided to explore the condition of Bulgarian ports and their development prospects.

Logistika Magazine Issue 3 / April 2011

A 45-day shutdown of the rail way between Svilengrad (Bulgaria) and Kapikule (Turkey) came as an unpleasant surprise to the transportation and forwarding companies because of the problems with the alternative route through Greece. Two weeks after the rail way was shut down, we asked forwarding experts for their opinion.

Logistika Magazine Issue 9 / November 2010

On October 10th, a LOGISTIKA magazine team sailed in “Logistics point Varna”. The aim of the “raid” was to meet and talk to representatives of logistics, forwarding and distribution companies in order to understand their sentiments at the end of the year 2010. In our meetings, we tried to find the answers to two questions: is there some recovery of the market and what management strategies will they use in 2011 in order to regain positions lost during the downturn.

Logistika Magazine Issue 6 / July-August 2010

Since 1976 Fercam has been one of the first transport companies to offer combined transport on the line Verona-Munich, and two years later - Milano-Mannheim. The decision for opening offices in the countries that have recently joined the European Union was taken after analyzing the markets and the expectations for them, and finding that it would be much more profitable when transportation from Italy to the region is served from the local offices of the company. Fercam Bulgaria is a pure forwarding company - it does not own vehicles and works on contractual agreements with its subcontractors.

Logistika Magazine Issue 3 / April 2010

Transportation companies that have invested in the implementation of a Transportation Management System (TMS) report cost reductions and improved reliability of deliveries. These are conclusions from expert analysis that should not be overlooked. In the second part of 2009 TMS providers saw a revived interest in TMS, with forecasts for a stable growth of the industry in 2010. TMS is considered to be one of the fastest developing segments of the supply-chain software market.