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Seatrade 2008, Miami As in previous years, Blue Water participated with its own stand at the cruise exhibition “Seatrade” in Miami during March. The stand was manned by representatives from Blue Water’s office in Fort Lauderdale, who have the daily contact to the cruise industry, and also Richard Buys/Blue Water Rotterdam, who had crossed the Atlantic to meet his regular contacts of Holland America Line. Furthermore Jesper Damgaard/ Blue Water USA and Amadeu Outeiro and Christina Sanchez/ Blue Water España were present during the exhibition week.
Blue Water’s exhibition department arranged transport of equipment for 13 Danish exhibitors and one Norwegian as well as stand equipment, packed in 2 x 40’ containers, for the collective stand of the Danish Exporters’ Association. In Fort Lauderdale, our local staff took care of the return transport and reforwarding to other exhibitions in the United States.
Fruit Logistica, Berlin 7.-9. february 2008
Poultry Convention in Atlanta At the end of January, Priscilla Souza/Blue Water Sao Paulo and Michelle Minto-Le Dreff / Blue Water Brest joined Victor Sapp / Blue Water New York for the annual Poultry Convention in Atlanta where they met many of our clients. After the convention, they went to New York to visit clients and business relations. Priscilla and Michelle also had time to meet their colleagues at the New York office and to get to know them and further improve the good relationship between the offices.
Visiting Globex - left to right: Victor Sapp, Zara Karapetyan, Joao Neri, Priscilla Souza and Vince McBean.
During the trip, Priscilla and Michelle also met with Birgitte Pedersen of Vestey Group, with whom they negotiated a new contract for their worldwide shipments.
At Blue Water’s New York office left to right: Isabel Piorro, Victor Sapp, Matthew Pavese, Michelle Afonso, Eva Zsubori, Priscilla Souza, Maggie Da Silva and Lasse Petersen.
Dick Heijmen and Johannes Lachi /Exotimex, Waddinxveen, Holland. Both Blue Water France and Holland were represented at the trade fair, Fruit Logistica, in Berlin this year. Robyn Briand from Brest and Dick Heijmen from Rotterdam met with many of their clients and were of course also looking for new business opportunities. Sanlong’s stand: Angel Jia and Kathy Ma.
As Chinese New Year coincided with Fruit Logistica, Dick Heijmen was invited to celebrate the festival with the Sanlong team. Left to right: Kathy Ma, Dick Heijmen, Mike Su, Angel Jia and Abram Kong.
Robyn Briand with Eduard Kristaikin of Sunway Group, St. Petersburg.