Colombo to host SDV Int'l logistics regional sales conference

SALES CONFERENCE: Air Link Sri Lanka will be hosting this year's regional sales conference. SDV International Logistics is a worldwide-known-and-leading group, specialized in international freight forwarding, transportation and logistics. SDV Air Link Sri Lanka said that this is the first time that such an annual conference is being held in Colombo.

The meeting scheduled to be held in Colombo on April 28-29, will see SDV delegates from France, USA, UK, Spain, Malaysia and India participating.

SDV International Logistics belongs to the top 250 category company in the Europe and employs 30,000 people worldwide. SDV International Logistics incorporates the main French entities of the SDV group which deals with international Transport and Logistics: SCAC, SCAC AIR SERVICE, TTA, TRANSCAP INTERNATIONAL, GIES, SDV Aerospace and TRANSINOR.

Today, reunited under the banner of SDV International Logistics, they pool-in their potential and expertise in order to provide their customers with an optimised transportation service, regardless of the origin or the destination of the transported goods.

Specialist in all areas of transportation and logistics, SDV International Logistics provides customized solutions using the most advanced technologies. SDV expertise lies on an in-house, built-in efficient IT system, a reactive and reliable international network and a close relationship with the major operators of the international transportation.

The SDV International Logistics network which is present on all the main international airports and hubs, offers a wide range of services from general cargo consolidation to the chartering of airplanes.

SDV International Logistics also offers its customers all the transport-associated devices, such as private warehouses under surveillance, pallets, etc... Thanks to our reliable network information systems, SDV International Logistics allows the availability of all the necessary information on real-time basis: documentation, customs, EDI, tracing/tracking and reporting.

Sea freight sector has been the core activity of the group since its creation. Today, the group enjoys partnership cooperation with more than 40 international shipping lines. The presence of SDV International Logistics in all the main ports provide our customers with a wide range of services to satisfy all their needs: from break-bulk to container shipping, from full container loads to consolidated shipments, from general cargo to specialized transport and from small parcel to out of gauge pieces.

Not only a forwarding agent but also a fully licensed NVOCC, SDV International Logistics offers a comprehensive solution to any request of consolidated shipment as well as full container loads, throughout the world.

In order to promote and ensure high service standards, SDV network is equipped with own tool sets: bonded warehouses, handling machinery, secured distribution centres, integrated information systems.

SDV's global approach enables to create customized solutions ranging from industrial logistics to all the aspects of international transportation and deals with imagination and how to make the best use of it. SDV's services are offered to the Aerospace industry, Oil and gas, Industrial project, Hi-tech, Health Care, Cosmetics & Perfume and Argo Foods etc.

The global thinking is multimodal, flexible and adapted to customers needs.

It means to contemplate all possible solutions and recommend only the most suitable and implies to foster our customers of all status on their transport requirements. The main objective of the sales conference is to exchange ideas to further develop the existing trade routes between India and Sri Lanka with France, UK and USA.