News archive 2004

09/20/2004		New job openings at SCHENKER d.o.o.
		In accordance with its highly expansive development strategy, SCHENKER d.o.o. Serbia has opened 3 positions for local staff. Sales & Marketing Representative and Bookkeeper for office in Belgrade and Representative for Vojvodina with residence in Novi Sad for a newly formed office. Please feel free to send your applications and CVs by mail, fax or e-mail or call our head office in Belgrade for details.
09/01/2004		JET Cargo: new airfreight service from Far East destinations
		Starting from September, SCHENKER d.o.o. Serbia introduces new airfreight service named JET Cargo. Jet Cargo will allow Schenker clients to receive shipments from International airports in Hong Kong, Shangai and Taipei at lower costs, while keeping Schenker quality, speed and reliability.
08/31/2004		Athens 2004: Schenker’s mission almost accomplished
		“Thank you, Schenker, it all worked very well,” said Dr Klaus Steinbach, President of the German National Olympic Committee, already before the end of Games. More than 350 individual customers, including some 50 different National Olympic Committees relied on Schenker, as the Official Supplier of Freight Forwarding and Customs Clearance for the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games. Altogether, Schenker is handling about 2,000 tons of airfreight, 1,000 containers by sea, 1,000 full truck loads from all over Europe and about 100 railcars. Most of the customers, including sponsors and media companies, needed solutions for their equipment that had to be safely transported to Athens, stored and delivered under security while there, and now, right after the Closing Ceremony, have to be forwarded back or to new destinations. Among the biggest Schenker customers are the broadcasting companies which were reporting on the sports events for billions of radio listeners and TV viewers around the world and around the clock. The shipments for these companies had and have to be handled with great care: sensitive transmission devices, digital cameras, monitors and other expensive equipment. Most of it arrived in Greece as airfreight, and then was set up at the International Broadcasting Center (IBC). In the meantime, Schenker is preparing the move-out of some of the equipment. About 11,000 personal computers, 600 servers and 2,000 printers were installed for media coverage. “The services for Athens are a new landmark in the history of Schenker,“ commented Dr Thomas Lieb, a member of the Board of Schenker AG and in charge of Schenker’s activities in the field of global sports events. “Athens represented an enormous challenge for our global teams and is also an obligation for future events, to turn in our best performance.”
08/11/2004		International training of SCHENKER d.o.o. employees
		Mr. Damir Klasnja, who has been with SCHENKER d.o.o. from founding in 2002., shall be assigned for 12 months to work in Schenker Linz and Schenker Vienna, in order to gain international experience and proficiency.
07/30/2004		SCHENKER is the official freight forwarder of Athens 2004 Summer Olympics
		Following it's company policy on long and fruitful cooperation with Olympic Games, our local office - SCHENKER d.o.o. Serbia successfully organized transport for Olympic committee of Serbia, Olympic Committee of Montenegro, National TV Serbia, National TV Montenegro and TV Vrsac, as well as for many other companies or individuuals.
07/29/2004		SCHENKER d.o.o. Serbia new website
		SCHENKER d.o.o. Belgrade has launched a new website at www.schenker.rs. New website complies with new SCHENKER global Internet company standard. SCHENKER d.o.o. Belgrade is one of first subsidiaries to comply with the consolidated interface and all other subsidiaries are expected to follow by the end of this year. The website has been created in cooperation with local web designers, which shows SCHENKER’s flexibility and support development of latest technologies in Serbia.

07/07/2004		UEFA 2004: Millions of TV viewers all over the world rely on SCHENKER logistics
		Schenker's roles at UEFA Euro 2004 include that of official service provider for European Broadcasting Services (EBS) During the European soccer championships in Portugal, which ended on July 4, 2004, a total of 31 matches were broadcast from ten stadiums. In order to make sure that millions of TV spectators throughout the world could always experience each of the fixtures right up close via radio and television, Schenker was putting up a peak logistic performance: staff from the subsidiary in Portugal were moving five tons of technical equipment backwards and forwards between the sites of the broadcasts. "As soon as the final whistle went, our staff had to demonstrate their speed and reliability," reports Jens Kock, Managing Director of Schenker in Portugal. "Regardless of whether the next fixture was to take place in the stadium in Lisbon, Faro, Porto, Averio, Guimarães, Braga, Coimbra or Leiria - before the match started, we had to deliver the equipment for the radio and TV broadcast fast and reliably."
12/07/2004		SCHENKER Customer Event
		SCHENKER Customer Event - corporate presentation of SCHENKER d.o.o. Serbia took place in Hyatt Regency Hotel Belgrade and actively included members from Serbian Chamber of Commerce and managers from SCHENKER CO & AG Wien, led by Mr. Elmar Wieland and Mr. Klaus Lippstreu. Main presentation points were casted on a long corporate history, in both global and local sense, as well as on the current status of SCHENKER on the local market of transport and logistic services, but also on the plans for further development and business expansion. Importance of the event was additionally elevated by presence of honored guests from various Serbian Governmental Institutions, Austrian and German Chambers of Commerce and other relevant bodies. Most of the seats were occupied by top managers from over 100 most eminent international and local companies operating on the market of Serbia. Event passed in a friendly business atmosphere and surely additionally increased already high opinion on quality standards of SCHENKER.  Photo gallery
11/08/2004		New e-services
		SCHENKER d.o.o. launches whole series of new services over the Internet. To save your time and money, now you can of send transport enquiries and dispositions, check current status of your shipment and more. Try some of our new electronic services at e-Schenker.  Try some of our new online services: Enquiry (quotation request) for international transport Transport disposition Customs clearance disposition Survey on our service quality Tracking (locate your shipment)