Breakbulk Holiday 2016

HOLIDAY 2016

BR E A KBU L K

H A P PY H O LI DAYS FRO M O UR FA M I LY TO YO U RS! Welcome to Breakbulk Events & Media’s second holiday special. We’ve pulled together a collection of some great stories that reflect what it means to be a part of the project cargo and breakbulk industry.

It all starts with the men and women involved in the logistics and transport of the world’s biggest cargoes.

We read about their experiences on breakbulk. com/industry-news and in the pages of Breakbulk Magazine, thanks to our international team of reporters and writers.

The complexity and sheer size of these project moves come to life at Breakbulk events in Shanghai, Moscow, Antwerp, Malaysia (new for 2017!), Houston and Abu Dhabi. It’s particularly exciting for me to have the opportunity to interview our speakers and exhibitors in our studio on the show floors. These videos are posted to YouTube and to our website, and we are currently working on a library to make it easy for people to find them by topic, so stay tuned.

Participating at a Breakbulk event often means traveling to an unfamiliar city. Our content director

Janet Nodar has written a wonderful city-by-city travelogue on each of our event cities for this holiday special. You can count on Janet to find intriguing spots often overlooked by the casual tourist.

You’ll also find a couple of stories from our recent Treacherous Transport Photo & Video Contest. There will be another six contests in 2017, so do sign up for notifications on our contest page. Entering means your company photos and video will be on display at Breakbulk events and promoted throughout our social media channels.

And now to my favorite part of this holiday special — the gifts! You’ll find something great for everyone in our industry and for those we hope will join it in the future. We will be giving away a couple of these great gifts so be sure to let us know what you’d like to win.

Here’s to a successful 2017!

Leslie Meredith Marketing Director Breakbulk Events & Media lmeredith@breakbulk.com

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04 W HERE W I L L B R E AK B U L K TAK E YO U?

A n insider’s guide to visiting the cities that host Breakbulk events

24 W H AT WO M E N B RI N G TO TH E LO GISTICS TAB L E

Tra v e l is a giv en w h en y ou w ork i n t ra n s po rt at io n & l og i sti c s

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A city-by-city guide by Breakbulk Events & Media Content Director Janet Nodar Being part of the global breakbulk industry means travel, sometimes a whole lot of it. People in the business know there’s a real difference between traveling for work and for pleasure. However, no matter how busy or fatigued I am, I try to savor new places and cultures when I can. I enjoy stepping out of the business bubble – airport, exhibition hall, business hotel – to get a sense of local life.

During 2017, Breakbulk will be in Shanghai, Moscow, Antwerp, Kuala Lumpur, Houston and Abu Dhabi. If you had told me 10 years ago that these cities, plus all the others we’ve worked in over the years, would become stamps in my passport, I don’t know that I would have believed you. Now, it’s my pleasure to share a few favorite sights and memories with you.

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SHANGHAI When there’s time, I like to use public transport in the cities we visit; it can allow one to bypass some of the traffic and pollution of sprawling development, and grants a glimpse of ordinary people’s lives.

Last spring, a couple of my colleagues and I spent a day exploring Shanghai with a local tour guide. Using the subway, we went to Chinatown, the French Concession, and newly blooming Fuxing Park. The park was clearly a haven for surrounding city dwellers. There were chess and checkers players, a couple practicing dance steps in a small lakeside pagoda, Tai Chi devotees, busy children and, my favorite, a couple of elderly gents dipping long-handled brushes in pails of water and inscribing the concrete walkways with Chinese calligraphy. People stopped to watch them work and carefully walked around their writing, even as the letters dried and faded in the spring sunlight.

Another favorite sight: in the small riverfront park across the road from our hotel, a clutch of elderly people gathered very early every morning bearing birds in small cages. They hung the birdcages in the small trees along the park’s pathways and then exercise in orderly rows. Beyond them, barges and vessels moved up and down the Huang Po as the morning light gathered.

In Shanghai, like any tourist city, you’ll be hustled when you venture into tourist areas. One year it was impossible to take 10 steps on the Bund without having someone implore myself and my colleague to buy plastic wheelies to attach to our shoes, turning them into instant roller skates. We, being not particularly lithe middle-aged women, cannot have been the ideal wheelie target market. All I can think is that there must have been a plastic wheelie heist the previous week, flooding the Shanghai street hustler market with ill-gotten merchandise that now had to be sold.

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MOSCOW While China’s subway system is not remarkable in itself, Moscow’s is quite unusual. The escalators descend precipitously; beware if you are claustrophobic. Down below, the battered metal cars screech to a halt and shoot away rapidly – you’d better know your stops ahead of time, especially if you aren’t sure of your Cyrillic – but never mind getting a bit lost, because the subway stations in the city’s center are startlingly beautiful. Moscow’s older metro stations were built during the 1930s to be the “temples of the people,” and transmit the gospel of the worker’s paradise. Each is a distinctive architectural masterpiece (to learn more, I recommend photographer David Burdeny’s book A Bright Future). One could easily spend a day exploring these subterranean jewels – but that might be a tough call if you’re short of time, because Red Square is fascinating, too. Giant stone head of Marx, anyone?

Lunch on the terrace at GUM? I was charmed by the shimmering beauty of the icons in Kazan Cathedral, and by the Grimm’s fairy-tale feel of bulbous St. Basil’s. Things I haven’t had time to see yet: the Tretyakov Gallery; most of the Kremlin; Lenin’s Tomb (it was being renovated when I was there); more surreally beautiful metro stations.

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HOUSTON I’m a southwestern native, so it’s always a relief to get back to Houston, where you can find real tortillas and decent chili. On the other hand, there’s the traffic. Houston is another city where the construction projects never end. On the other hand, we held armadillo races at Breakbulk Americas this year and no one batted an eye. I guess you could say Texans are hard to fluster.

A few years ago I took the Port of Houston’s boat tour, offered free of charge on the Houston Ship Channel.

If, like me, you do not normally work on the water, it is interesting to revisit the hands-on aspect of the shipping business, even from a distance. One aspect of work travel that I appreciate is seeing the non-touristy side of cities and regions; the ports and terminals; the industrial districts where the hardest work gets done; the humbler areas as well as the imposing offices.

Houston also houses a distinctive modern art museum, the Menil, which I first learned about on a plane flight. I was seated next to a young man accompanying a Magritte home to Houston after it had been loaned to a museum in Europe. His enthusiasm about the museum he worked for was engaging.

The Menil floats peacefully in a lovely green space in the middle of Houston.

It’s renowned collection ranges from the Surrealists to native artists to Byzantine and Medieval art. Also on the Menil grounds is the deceptively simple Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational space hung with painter Mark Rothko’s massive, hypnotic ‘black paintings.’ I need to go back.

AB U DH A B I

Abu Dhabi is a shiny new city, sprung up in the desert and grown rich on oil.

An Abu Dhabi edition of the Louvre should open in 2017, while the fate of a proposed Guggenheim branch seems murkier. Meanwhile, one can visit the Emirates Palace, a sumptuous hotel on the corniche, or beach. The palace is madly opulent. During my visit there, I walked a series of high-ceilinged marble expanses to discover a young woman in a ball gown and a mink stole playing Chopin on a baby grand while well-dressed people enjoy high tea nearby. Against the wall there was a

gold vending machine. No, not golden-colored; rather, a vending machine that vends gold bars and coins. The prices recalibrate every 10 minutes or so, I understand.

Meanwhile, just off the lobby there were galleries of Soviet art on loan from Russia: hearty peasants threshing the people’s grain; an abashed schoolboy explaining his bad grades to stern parents; a young Gorky enthusiastically reading to Stalin from a red-bound volume. I suppose a lot of art enthusiasts wandered through after enjoying their high tea, Chopin and gold bars.

At the other end of the city, the white marble Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, able to accommodate 40,000 people, gleams on a hilltop. It is a beautiful place of worship, a vast indoor space and outdoor courtyard surrounded by graceful white colonnades and a series of gardens and reflective pools. We were there at sunset. The evening call to prayer floated above our heads as the fountains and reflective pools turned dark blue and the shadows deepened.

On my next visit, I’m heading out into the desert. I have not yet been on a camel trek.

ANTWERP Antwerp’s Centraal Station, where rail and city transport converge, is an engaging meld of antique and modern.

Arrived, one ascends a steep series of escalators from the glass-vaulted red brick modern platforms into an echoing, balconied, late-1800s great hall, site of one of the most charming flashmobs ever recorded. To enjoy it, find ‘Antwerp Centraal Do Re Mi.’ on youtube.

I have a weakness for one-of-kind, idiosyncratic museums, and Antwerp is home to one of my favorites, the Plantin-Moretus. Christopher Plantin and his son-in-law, Jan Moretus, were early adopters of a new-fangled technology called printing. The family, which lived and worked in a courtyard building off Antwerp’s Vrijdagmarkt, or Friday Market (in the old town) for about four centuries, apparently saved everything, so the museum collection includes the two oldest printing presses in the world, every set of printing type they ever bought (there are many), paintings, drawings and copperplates by family friend Peter Paul Rubens, and, er, lots of books.

The museum explorer wanders from elaborate reception rooms into a modest medieval street-level storefront.

Here, printed pages were originally sold by the sheet, back before bound books were invented. Next comes a long narrow room filled with printing-presses, and then it’s up a few steps into a series of rooms filled with beds, cooking utensils and several centuries’ worth of household paraphernalia. The museum’s massive collection of ornate Bibles and precious volumes and artworks are on the upper floors. And the museum store is great – I felt quite smug about all the Christmas presents I scored.

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KUALA LUMP UR I was in Kuala Lumpur in November for meetings related to our new Breakbulk Southeast Asia conference, debuting in the fall of 2017. Many of my meetings were in the Bukit Bintang area of downtown, where street construction is omnipresent and Kuala Lumpur’s vital, rapidly evolving character becomes clear. On one block hexagonal storefronts gleam with designer labels while shoppers stream in and out of a massive, multi-storied mall; on the next block, homeless people sleep on filthy sidewalks in front of shabby shophouses, the tiny storefronts selling everything from cell phones to shower curtains. Across Bukit Bintang and down a flight of red stairs, my colleague guided me to a basement full of food hawkers’ stalls, where we ate noodles and meatballs. Then we rejoined the clamorous street and found our way to Starbucks for another meeting.

Another night we ate on Jalan Alor, a famous food street nearby. It’s lined with plastic tables and chairs, each cluster aligned with a busy shophouse kitchen. We settled in next to a garrulous party of elderly Chinese men, all drinking out of bulbous brown mug-like somethings – I inquired, and soon received a cold, freshly trimmed coconut with the top lopped off, and a straw and a big spoon. Coconut water, right out of the coconut. Delicious.

In downtown Kuala Lumpur, the buildings seem to spring in all directions. It’s hard to tell which way is up, much less the points of the compass. However, one can escape the city quickly; there are many green spaces, including the lush Perdana Botanical Gardens and the nearby Bird Park, essentially a series of enormous free-flight aviaries. The peacocks, herons, and other birds that roam the grounds do expect to be fed, despite the warning signs. It’s not “Please Do Not Feed the Birds” so much as it’s “Please Ignore the Birds’ Obvious Expectations and Insulted Airs When You Do Not Oblige.” I did not have time to visit the Batu Caves, which I understand are fascinating but have lots of steps and entitled-feeling monkeys. I will give the caves a try next time. BB

Pictured (clockwise from left): Coconut water in Kuala Lumpur; view of Old Town Antwerp from the Hilton Hotel; bulldogs in Antwerp’s Grote Markt; card players in Fuxing Park, Shanghai; medallion in Moscow subway station, party time at The Grove in Houston; Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.

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HI-TECH OFFSITE COULD MEAN LESS RISK ONSITE Excerpt from “Predictably Innovative” by Paul Scott Abbott, first published in Issue 5 2016 of Breakbulk Magazine

Project cargo logistics will always entail its share of surprises, but an innovation-encouraging initiative under way at construction industry giant Bechtel is taking aim at significantly reducing the probability – and cost – of unexpected occurrences.

Bechtel’s Engineered Logistics approach deploys such leading-edge tools as 4-D simulation and virtual reality to further improve the certainty in managing project cargo logistics.

“Everyone knows it’s been a tough go for the industry with recent market conditions,” said Stephen R. Spoljaric, who is at the forefront of the Bechtel initiative. “Anywhere we can take out contingency and pin down real probability of risk and pin down schedules helps carriers, Bechtel and clients.”

Spoljaric, who wears the dual hats of traffic and logistics manager and procurement innovation lead for Bechtel’s oil, gas and chemicals global business unit, couldn’t be more enthusiastic.

Spoljaric readily recognizes that, “a project can go in the wrong direction quite quickly.” However, if a potential issue

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is predicted ahead of time, measures – perhaps as simple as modifying a pipe rack system or adding a ship to the shipping program – can be put in place before a domino effect leads to expensive consequences.

“A one-day arrival delay for a ship to a construction site could be 10 times what the cost for a ship is,” Spoljaric said.

“By our getting smarter and more predictive, clients will have a better sense of what to expect, and so will the carriers, so it takes away surprises.”

TECHN OLOGY IN ACTION

Bechtel’s Engineered Logistics approach, which since early 2016 has been moving forward through a funded research project with the University of Houston’s College of Technology, and is slated to begin implementation with clients in early 2017.

David Wilson, Bechtel’s deputy chief innovation officer, termed the program “intrapreneurial innovation,” noting that any of the company’s more than 50,000 employees worldwide — a kind of intracompany crowdsourcing — may submit concepts that are preliminarily evaluated by a small team that includes Wilson and two or three colleagues.

Wilson said more than 1,000 concepts have been received and put through a litmus test of whether they are truly disruptive, expandable to broader application, translatable

to prototype, testable “in the sandbox” and aligned with corporate strategic objectives. That high-tech “sandbox” is the Bechtel Innovation Center in Houston, a lab outfitted with 4-D modeling software, 360-degree cameras, drones and a host of other virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.

Spoljaric pointed to four-dimensional, or 4-D, modeling as a particularly helpful tool, with real data, not averages, applied in creating a visual portrayal of a sequence of events for project shipments that can give customers and carriers alike a superior view of what to anticipate.

“We’re not just dealing with drawings on a piece of paper,” he said. “We’re dealing with something that’s a bit futuristic and that’s cool, too.”

The 4-D modeling software enables Bechtel to accurately evaluate risk, cost and schedule in a module shipping program, allowing clients to see probabilities of how the shipping program will operate. For example, with further evaluation of upstream activities, Bechtel can determine the accuracy of readiness dates from the module construction yard.

“If the simulation model identified concerns, these can be addressed far in advance by Bechtel and our carriers to develop efficient solutions,” Spoljaric said. “For the size of these giga-projects, the freight spend on modules can be in the hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. “We need to be as accurate and predictable as possible.”

Meanwhile, virtual reality headsets, 360-degree cameras, drones, self-contained holographic computers and other advanced visual technologies can be used to view modules

as holograms during preconstruction and then in real-time throughout construction and transport.

“Again, this innovation increases certainty in the plan,” Spoljaric said, adding that it may alleviate unneeded travel by carrier port captains, project managers and Bechtel staff during the fabrication phase.

“Dimensions can be taken virtually and the files will be shared with the carriers – and insurance – far in advance of vessel arrival so that there are no surprises during loading,” he said. “Improved safety and avoiding wasted time will be the biggest benefits.”

Spoljaric emphasized that the Engineered Logistics approach is applicable not just to ocean transport, but can be integrated across the full spectrum of modes, including trucking.

“Innovation is definitely not a destination,” Spoljaric said.

“This is the opportunity to challenge one another in what we’re doing, to get things more standard so we get more creative. The traditional way is still there, but now there’s this other way. I think we’re just scratching the surface of the potential for some of these things.”

From left, seated, are Andrew Young, critical equipment transport subject matter expert; and Stephen R. Spoljaric, procurement innovation lead and oil, gas and chemicals global business unit and logistics manager for Bechtel and a Breakbulk VIP Shipper Club member.

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RTL LLC HEATS UP SPMTS Everyone knows that Russian winters are some of the harshest in the world and therefore demand specialized logistics for moving project cargo when the roads are frozen and the clouds are dumping snow.

“Summertime is short in this part of country and while we try to limit moves during this period, sometimes the client can’t wait better weather conditions,” Maria Vasilchenko of RTL LLC told Breakbulk. Timely delivery can affect the operations of an entire plant and weather delays are often unacceptable.

Freezing temperatures can wreak havoc with transport equipment involving hydraulics. RTL LLC recently moved columns for the Angarsk Petrochemical Plant, which ranks among the largest Russian oil processing plants and is a major petroleum product supplier in Siberia and the Far East. Each column measured more than 25 meters

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with a diameter of more than three meters. The transport covered over 4,000 kilometers.

“The main problem we faced during transportation was during truck transportation,” Vasilchenko said.

“Because of an extremely low outside temperature, the density of the oil in the self-propelled modules’ hydraulic system increased. In fact, the SPMTs could not move.”

The problem was solved by heating the SPMTs. RTL LLC’s crew covered the them with tarps and used a forced air heater to warm the oil. Soon the oversized load was on its way again. BB

“Bec a us e of a n ex t remel y l ow out s i d e tem p eratu re, the density of t he oi l i n the s el f - p rop el l ed mod ul es ’ hy d ra ul i c sy stem i nc rea s ed .

I n fac t, the SP MTs c o u l d n ot m ov e.”

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Earlier this year, Omega Morgan was contracted by UTC Overseas to move a 100ton transformer from Flin Flon, Manitoba to Island Falls, Saskatchewan.

OMEGA M O R GA N T HREADS T HE N E E D L E FROM BREAKBULK’S TREACHEROUS TRANSPORT PHOTO & VIDEO CONTEST

TH E C H ALLE N G E S

T H E S OLUT ION

The route forced us to cross an 880-foot-long structure that was only 15 feet wide and included a 24-inch steel grate that ran the entire length of the structure, leaving us with 13 feet of usable structure.

The main girders under the structure were different sizes and we needed to make sure we distributed the proper load to each without overloading. Access to the site was limited to the use of this bridge, so any operations that took place at the bridge location could not block access to the site.

After much review and collaboration with all parties involved, our team come up with a design that allowed us to safely cross the structure. Utilizing our trailers’ towers to lift the unit 4 feet, we inserted six dollies under our tthree carrier beams and offset them to one side of the trailer. We also offset our original 10 dollies. This configuration allowed us to stay under the 13-foot width restriction as well as accommodate the load limitations of the structure by reducing our overall axle weights by 40 percent. BB

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BEWARE THE SPRING THAW During spring thaw in North America, states and provinces have strict regulations governing the movement of permitted loads on highways. Careful planning and scheduling of transportation to jobsites is a must.

There is always the possibility of an early or late thaw so plan for it. Prepare a logistics study that project management, project engineering and field procurement can refer to during the project, and make sure it includes detailed contingency plans.

Here are 10 things to consider when planning for transportation during the spring thaw: 1. Typical weather patterns for the surrounding area such as temperature and snow 2. The terrain 3. Condition of roads, including main and secondary roads 4. State, province and local laws and regulations governing transportation during these months 5. Analysis of bridges culverts, tunnels, and other road clearance issues 6. Carrier availability locally and at origin fabrication facilities 7. Material handling equipment availability 8. Storage and laydown yard availability 9. Schedule meetings with state, provincial and local permittingauthorities to learn the permiting process and the specific rules thatapply to spring thaw permitted transportation 10. Plan B: Alternatives when the spring thaw suddenly impacts permitted load in transit BLG LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS / FELBERMAYR CITY TRANSPORT PHOTO ENTRY

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WO M E N

WORKING WOM EN

D e di c at ed t o t he h a rd w o r k i n g w o m e n i n t h e p roj ec t c arg o a n d b re a k b u l k i n d u s t r y.

Sp ec i al t ha nk s t o t h e f e m a l e e x e c u t i v e s w ho ha v e sha re d t h e i r k n o w l e d g e a n d exper t i se a s k ey n o t e s p e a k e r s , p a n e l i s t s a n d i nst r uc t or s at B re a k b u l k e v e n t s i n 2 0 1 6 .

PICTURED AT LEFT ROW 1 Lee Tipton, Corporate Logistics & Trade Compliance FMC Technologies Breakbulk Americas 2016 Panelist Jennifer Ledet, Chief People Officer Ledet Management Consulting Breakbulk Americas 2016 Micro-seminar Instructor Tina Yi, Chartering Manager SAL Heavy Lift Shanghai Breakbulk China 2016 Panelist ROW 2 Suzanne Bleau–Myrand, Director of Marketing Fednav Breakbulk Americas 2016 Panelist Meike Ziegler, Associate Holman Fenwick Willan LLP Breakbulk Middle East 2016 Panelist Tania Smith, DOW RO (Phase II) - Sadara Project Logistics Manager, Multi-projects Group Logistics Lead Fluor Breakbulk Americas 2016 Education Day EPC Leader

ROW 3 Emmanuelle Zagaria, Head of Logistics Dept ENERCON Canada, Inc. Breakbulk Americas 2016 Panelist Phyllis Kulkarni, Director North America Independent Project Analysis Breakbulk Americas 2016 Keynote Speaker Sofie Cappaert, Senior Client Executive, Marine, Marsh S.A. Breakbulk Europe 2016 Micro-seminar Instructor ROW 4 Margaret Vaughan, Manager, Transportation & Logistics/Export Compliance Wood Group Mustang Breakbulk Americas 2016 Micro-seminar Instructor Susan Oatway, Senior Analyst Drewry Shipping Consultants Breakbulk Europe 2016 Panelist Rachel Kellett, Global Project Coordinator, Ahlers & General Manager Ahlers China Breakbulk Europe 2016 Exhibitor-led Session

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E T H AT W O M E N “GIE BNEELRIAE LVLY TA K E A M O R E H O L I ST I C V I E W ” W HAT WOME N B R IN G TO THE LOGI ST I C S TA B LE Excerpt from “Minority Movement”

by Carly Fields, first published in Issue 4 2016 of Breakbulk Magazine

Women have come a long way since the 1900s suffragette movements. Today, we make conscious efforts to ignore whether a man or woman takes the helm at an engineering, procurement and construction company, port of freight forwarder — the emphasis being on skill, not gender. But for all that has been achieved, women remain in the minority in this industry.

Margaret Vaughan, manager traffic and logistics/ export compliance at Wood Group Mustang Inc., sees women making strides in the industry: “Gender may have slowed us, but it has not stopped us. It has just been a matter of time, a willingness to recognize talent and skills, and a willingness to give women opportunities to execute. After that, it’s up to us not to fail.”

Some say that women bring something different to the table when they join a project cargo movement, regardless of the point in the chain. But these qualities need to be set against the complementary attributes of male counterparts. For many, it’s the combined force that makes the difference.

“For a very long time, I subscribed to the idea that women bring the same skills and capabilities to the table as men, and that’s why gender shouldn’t matter in the workplace,” said Kathy Canaan, global director trade compliance at engineering procurement and construction company Fluor. “As I get older, I appreciate more that diversity of opinions, work style and experience has incredible value.

“Breakbulk and project cargo logistics is a business

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of planning, problem solving and relationships. I believe that women generally take a more holistic view to problem solving and often have greater situational awareness than our male counterparts.

That, alongside a tendency to work more collaboratively pays tremendous dividends.”

Vaughan shares this viewpoint: “Men and women approach problems from different angles, and women have different strengths than men do. One is not necessarily superior to the other — they are just different and, quite honestly, complementary. My male colleagues may look at a challenge in a way that I may not. They may see things that I will not. Their perceptions, while no less valid than my own, may reveal a better methodology and vice versa.”

WATCH Logistics Studies: Are You Providing What the Project Needs? with Margaret Vaughan at Breakbulk Americas 2016

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FOLLOWING IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS Excerpt from The New Blood, Recognizing Breakbulk’s Next Generation of Leaders, Breakbulk Magazine March/April 2015

MEET PE RLA CAMBE RO S LOGISTICS MAN AGE R, S IEMENS ME XICO SECO ND GEN ER AT ION Perla Camberos was one of 10 rising industry stars identified by senior industry veterans and featured in Breakbulk Magazine’s New Blood story in 2015.

Nominated by Rafael de los Santos, managing director of Tradelossa*, Camberos represents the second generation in her family to join the project cargo and logistics industry.

She said she was most influenced by her father. “As a mechanical engineer he always challenged me and dared me to prove my ideas,” Camberos said. She began her career at 18 as a forklift driver, handling metals and structures in a maquila company. And here’s where her father’s influence kicked in. “I felt passionate to perform those movements, helping the specialized operators,” Camberos said. “Inside of me I feel a bit intrigued to know how these pieces had got there.”

Her logical thinking, curiosity and willingness to work in the field has propelled her from the factory floor to the management team offices of heavy equipment manufacturer Siemens. On her journey, she has worked in manufacturing, the automotive industry, integrated logistics, maneuvering and rigging-lifting projects and specialized transport.

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“I have moved cooling towers and tanks for clean fuels project with Pemex; transformers and air coolers for power plants with CFE; lifted columns and girders to the second floor of the center via of México City; transported turbines, blades and nacelles for a wind farm in Oaxaca (Huchitán) with Gamesa; handled international transport of storage tanks to the dam La Yesca in Nayarit and high tonnage transformers for ethylene XXI project.”

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THREE GENERATIONS AT TRADELOSSA Long-time Breakbulk supporter Tradelossa is a specialized Mexican trucking company founded more than 40 years ago and the current managing director Rafael de los Santos is the grandson of the founder.

The organization has prospered with each generation by emphasizing the importance of a university education and providing management opportunities within the company.

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The John Amos family has had four generations of logistics tradition dating from 1890. John Amos, Sr. was a senior railroad official as was his son John Amos, Jr. Today, John Amos, III, a long-time Breakbulk participant, has continued the family tradition. He first learned from his father that a strong work ethic is necessary to have a successful career.

“When I was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, my father helped me get a summer job at his railroad working in a freight yard. It was hard work and could be dangerous so it encouraged me to learn about the cargo, study hard during the school year and then interview for the college hire program,” Amos said. “My experience with the cargo was very useful in working with shippers and then later becoming one at Bechtel.”

Staying true to family tradition, John’s brother was the corporate head of logistics for Levi Strauss. The fourth generation is Breakbulk’s own marketing director Leslie Meredith, John’s daughter, who was taught the importance of work organization and developing new ideas.

“My transportation education started at age 3 with Saturday rides on the little train at Tilden Park in Berkeley, California,” Meredith said. “Never did I imagine I would follow in my dad’s footsteps, but I can’t think of a more exciting industry to be in.”

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S E CO ND GE NE RAT IO N My fondest memories growing up were going down to the port with my father who would show me a cargo which he had fixed. We of course deal with some very large heavy lift cargo in our industry but one can imagine how huge a heat exchanger looked to a young kid! That’s quite a sales tool for the industry. I especially enjoyed getting to go aboard the ship and see how the vessel operates.

That being said, I never felt pressure from my father to get into the “family business.” However, it certainly seemed natural to do so because the business was always around us since my father proudly says that he has “salt water running through his veins!”.

Now that I am a part of the industry, I now see and meet the multiple generations of families and glad to see that it’s still very much a “family business” first and foremost.

Photo below: John Amos sits in the front of the Little Train at Tilden Park in Berkeley, California, with his daughter Leslie and wife Nicole.

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