Vinafco Logistics: ISO 9001:2000 Service Quality Names Trademark

3:26:35 PM | 7/8/2005

Logistics services bring in an annual growth rate of 5-20 per cent to VINAFCO Logistics. The Corporation has become a reliable logistics service address for such world-leading firms as Honda, Yamaha, Toyota, Ajinomoto, Exxon Mobil, Dutch Lady, Nestle and others.

Up to now, VINAFCO Logistics has successfully built its own trademark by application of ISO 9001-2000 quality management system. After 15 years of operation, the Company has developed VINAFCO into a strong logistics trademark in Vietnam and in the region thanks to its world-class logistics centres, modern, diversified and qualified transport means, experienced staff, a representative office network and reliable subcontractors nationwide. These are prerequisites for VINAFCO Logistics to bring package services with the most professional manners to clients.

VINAFCO Logistics provides multi-modal conveyance supported by roadway, river, sea and railway systems to satisfy the requirements of clients for punctual transport. VINAFCO ensures the absolute safety, quality and quantity for their goods. To reduce costs and create the best conditions for clients to approach the logistics services, the company has widened and stepped up transit services along the East-West Corridor (Vietnam-Laos-Thailand) and the North-South Corridor (China-Vietnam-Cambodia), which in return promotes business exchanges among these countries.

In particular, VINAFCO Logistics intensifies customs clearance procedures at all border gates throughout the country, facilitating shipment, stevedoring and delivery of goods.

In 1998, the Company injected money into opening two logistics centres at 78 Bach Dang Street, Hanoi and at the Tien Son Industrial Zone in Bac Ninh Province with a combined warehouse area of 40,000 square metres and with modern handling equipment like 40-tonne, 15-tonne cranes, forklift trucks, supporting facilities and others.

The two centres with world-class logistics criteria are considered the most modern and important in Vietnam. They are run by professional and experienced storekeepers and supervisors who are equipped with updated storehouse management software programmes.

They are also outside-border customs clearance locations of the Hanoi Customs Department. The logistics services of the Company here can satisfy such clients’ demands as entrusted import-export and trade, customs clearances for goods or shipment of goods into CFS warehouses or bonded depots.

The quality of logistics services of the Company is always ensured with maintenances and applications of the ISO 9001-2000 quality management system. Currently, the Company is gradually applying information and technology to its business and management system such as developing the local network area computer system, upgrading their internet lines to ADSL technology, applying internet-supported utilities to its management system and promoting its online transaction and customer care services. Mr. Vu Dinh Quang, VINAFCO Logistics Director, said, “VINAFCO Logistics always affirms its prestige and top position in logistics operations in Vietnam. We are now reliable and prestigious partners and loyal service suppliers for leading firms in Japan, the United States, Eastern Europe and the Southeast Asian region. In the coming time, we will attach much importance to the investment in material facilities and modern equipment, and the expansion of the service network. Since 2000, a lot of staff have been sent to follow short-term training courses in Vietnam as well as overseas to heighten service quality in the best possible manner.”

“To carefully prepare for the following years, especially when Vietnam further integrates into the world market economy, we are upgrading our existing infrastructure to mechanise all importing and exporting processes, progressing to automated logistics performances. To assert our footing in the local market, we strive to take full advantage of expanding our business scope and scale with much attention to promoting standards, quality and trademarks to vie with domestic and regional companies,” Quang added.

With such reflections, VINAFCO Logistics is actively diversifying its services in the way that each logistic centre is a congregating place for various commodities that will be then delivered to designated supermarkets, sales agents,and producers in all cities and provinces nationwide. These are indispensable conditions for stable and long-lasting development with the absolute prestige for VINAFCO Logistics in the time to come.