(Inhouse Magazine of WWL Group)

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MD’s Message 3

Birthday Babies 4

New Faces & Exits 5

WWL Business Updates 6-9

WW WW News –

Who, What, When & Where 10-14

Know your Colleague 15-16

Industry News 17-19

Inspiring Life of K.Sivan (ISRO) 20-21

IT Awareness 22

Dear Worldwideans,

Season’s Greetings!

First of all, my best wishes to our highly accomplished Worldwide Warriors team! They

have made us proud once again for the 7th consecutive year, by winning the ACPL cup!! It’s a

matter of great pride for us and I am sure they will keep practicing more and more to win

the ACPL and other cups in the coming years too. I think it’s high time we construct a

separate room for displaying our cricket trophies to our guests.

We have just completed the 1st quarter of the financial year. I wish to congratulate the

Chennai team (TPM & Madhu), Majeed and Mayur, who have put in a tremendous show to

overachieve their targets. Coimbatore & Tuticorin have also come very closer. Overall, we

have achieved 96% of our Q1 target. I wish the same momentum continues for rest of the

year too.

This month, another feat has been achieved by Ponnappan & team in Chennai. They have

achieved a monthly tonnage of 200 Tonnes for the 1st time in our history (230 tonnes as of

30th July). I congratulate Ponnappan & his team for their relentless work, keep up the good

work!!

I also understand from our Finance dept that we have received long pending tax refunds of

Rs.1.06 crore after constant follow ups with the Govt authorities. Congratulations to

Srinivasan who was responsible for achieving this.

I request all HODs to give more importance to collection of outstandings which is essential

for us to protect our margins and be profitable.

Wish you all a happy month ahead, until we meet in this page next month.

Best wishes,

Bala

Birthday Babies

SNo Employee Name Date of

Birth Location

1 Ramesh Kumar Andela 03 Aug Hyderabad

2 Mithilesh Kumar Jha 04 Aug Chennai - Corporate

3 Aloke Kumar Sinha 06 Aug Kolkata

4 Muthuraj P 07 Aug Tuticorin

5 Sumathi S 09 Aug Chennai - Corporate

6 Vigneshwaran K 10 Aug Chennai - Corporate

7 Prasanth G 11 Aug Chennai - Corporate

8 Rajakumar T P 12 Aug Chennai - Corporate

9 Kannan C T 12 Aug Chennai - Corporate

10 Madeshwaran 12 Aug Chennai – Corporate

11 Yaseen Khan 15 Aug Bangalore

12 Mahaboob Subhani S K 15 Aug Hyderabad

13 Dipesh Yogendra Tahiliani 16 Aug Gandhidham

14 Suresh A 19 Aug Chennai - Corporate

15 Naresh Kumar M 20 Aug Hyderabad

16 Vishal Yadav 20 Aug New Delhi

17 Latha 22 Aug Chennai -Corporate

18 Prabu R 22 Aug Chennai – Corporate

19 Sharma O R K 24 Aug Hyderabad

20 Jeevanandan S 24 Aug Chennai - Corporate

21 Ratnesh Singh 25 Aug New Delhi

22 Raj Veljibhai Manglia 26 Aug Gandhidham

23 Ravishankar G M 29 Aug Bangalore

24 Mulk Raj 30 Aug Chennai - Corporate

WWL wishes them all a Happy Birthday!!

SNo Employee Name Designation Branch /

Department

1 Siddappa.G Executive-Operations WTS-Bangalore

2 Christopher R Executive-Sales WTS-Bangalore

3 Venkatesh R Executive-Booking WTS-Bangalore

4 Jyothi.V Executive Assistant WTS-Bangalore

5 Prakash S Manager-Marketing WTS-Coimbatore

6 Subhasis Ray B Asst. Manager-Sales WWL-Kolkatta

7 Sunny Ashok Sawant Documentation-Export TGL-Mumbai Belapur

8 Kumar.N Dy.Manager-Key Accounts WWL-Corp

SNo Employee Name Designation Branch /

Department

1 Ashok C Sankpal Sr. Executive Mumbai-Belapur

2 Srikanth S Executive-Operations Chennai-Port Office

3 Monica Damania Branch Manager Mumbai-Andheri

Vendor Award:

We had attended the All India Vendors meet of Synergy Global Sourcing at Hosur on 13th

July’19. We have been working with this customer for the last 10 years, as an exclusive

logistic partner.

Synergy manufactures brass components which are used for space research institutes, metro

trains, aircrafts, etc. We are their parallel partners dealing their logistics arrangements across

Indian ports. WWL has been awarded in the function as Special Recognition for our

contributions.

Recent order win – Faurecia India

Faurecia, is one of our long term partner since 2000. They are a global leader in automotive

technology, with innovative solutions. Faurecia has 4 strategic businesses, viz. Faurecia

Seating, Faurecia Interiors, Faurecia Emissions and Electronics/Mobility. Globally, Faurecia

employees about 122,000 employees, operates from 300 sites in 37 countries, with 35 R&D

centres. Every 1 in 3 vehicles worldwide includes a Faurecia technology.

Faurecia India Pvt Ltd. has been one of the long standing key supporters of WWL for

handling their Freight Forwarding. Being one of our loyal clients, they have been very

impressed with our promptness, nimbleness and quality of service provided for the last two

decades.

Recently, TGL have signed a Rate contract with them to handle Customs clearance for all Air

& Ocean import/export for the entire business group of Faurecia India. This will cover all of

their 13-15 plants located pan-India and expected to provide close to 2,000 Customs

clearances per annum. We have to handle the clearance and transportation activities to and

fro major air/sea ports, ICDs from various suppliers. The initial contract for 1 year starting 1st

August, is extendable.

This is the first time WWL is signing a pan-India contract for Customs clearance with such a

large customer. The contract with them was signed recently by Mr Reynold at their Pune

office.

Kumar would be the one point contact for this contract who will oversee the entire

operations. We wish him the very best and look forward to many more such wins.

Centralized Filing Team’s Operations

In order to meet up with the changing environment in customs filing / compliance formalities

and also to ensure smooth, error-free and timely filing of Bill of Entries (Imports) and Shipping

Bills (Exports), we realized the need for setting up a Central Team to streamline the filing process

of All India TGL operations.

Accordingly a team was set up in November 2017, to handle Centralized Filing Solutions Team

(CFST) with a 7-member team headed by Sudhakar. A lot of ground has been covered since then

to make the system more efficient and error-free. Recently team has been extended to 12

members (including Sudhakar).

Currently, the documents are being filed electronically for Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru,

Coimbatore, Tuticorin and Vizag branches, for both Exports & Imports, except Hyderabad. Mr

Majeed has confirmed that Hyderabad branch will also join from Aug’19, for Central filing.

Sudhakar will be the ‘Go To person’ for all India Customs related queries. His major

responsibilities are:

Managing the functioning of Central Filing Solutions team

Ensuring 100% error-free and timely filing of Bill of Entries / Shipping Bills

To cover all branches of TGL under Central Filing for all Imports/Exports

Ensuring 100% compliance with Customs documentation/formalities

Knowledge transfer to all stations on latest Customs updates

Ensuring correct usage of Chapter / HS code for filing

A detailed SOP has been prepared for this and the same has been explained to all branch

Operation team employees through Skype presentation.

Documents filed from Apr’19 to Jul’19:

Exports - 1546 Shipping bills

Imports - 1659 Bill of Entries

Average bills 800 per month

New Key Accounts team:

We are happy to inform all Worldwideans that Mr Kumar has been redesignated as Deputy

Manager – Key Accounts.

We have several strategic corporate accounts, which has been providing us with regular

business and needs increased focus from our side. Such customers have been moved into a

separate business unit, so that we can deliver more value to them.

Kumar is the first employee in this business unit and would be handling Faurecia, Valspar

and Autoliv for now. Kumar is the first employee in this team. Going forward, as the

accounts grow in business volume, more accounts would get added to key accounts team,

which are to be directly handled and managed by them. Accordingly, the team strength

would also go up.

We take this opportunity to wish Kumar all the very best in his new assignment and request

everyone’s cooperation to him.

ACPL Cup 2019

We have won the prestigious Air Cargo Premier League Cup Cricket for 2019, for the 7th

consecutive year!!!! The team members were felicitated with cash awards.

World Environment Day

World Environment Day is celebrated across the world on 5th June, in order to create

awareness amongst people about the importance of preserving nature & environment. We

have celebrated World Environment Day at WWL TGSIN Project, by planting some trees at

TGSIN Extended Warehouse’s premises.

Fire Safety Training:

Fire Safety Training for our WWL Centre employees was held at our Vadpe (Mumbai)

Warehouse. Basic Fire Fighting Training from Safe Tech Fire imparted to all Supervisorial

staff and key operators at Vadpe DC on 12th July2019. A total of 16 Persons from WWL Team

participated in the Fire Safety Drill, which was conducted by two professionally trained

Experts from M/s Safe Tech Fire Solutions, Mumbai.

FLT Operations Training @ Autoliv:

Safety and Ergonomics training was imparted for AIB employees on 20th July 2019. Training

was provided by Mr Sadananda from National Safety Council. It was held in 2 batches. Our

Ravishankar and Hemanth Kumar also joined NSC Team as Training Faculty and Coordinator.

Weddings:

Mr Satheesh from Accounts Dept, Corporate Office:

Mr Sundaramoorthy from Accounts Dept, Corporate Office:

Know Your Colleague

KV Venkatesan, GM - South

(Venky, as he is affectionately called, is the Employee No.2 of

WWL Group, since its inception)

1. Your take on the WWL family (colleagues as well as the bosses)

“My parents, my son, my wife, my WWL” - this is my life.

My bosses – I have formed like this because of my bosses only. They are Venky’s

Brahmas.

In other way , I am always one of their family member personally also. I would like

to thank heartiest to all my colleagues, as they only brought me to this level.

2. What do you personally like about the office/work?

From my first day, my office and my work are like my respiration / breathing, I have

nothing more to add.

3. What are your interests / hobbies (or) how do you spend your free time?

I don’t have any exclusive interests and hobbies. I love music (sometimes, I used to

sing in media like Smule) and watching cricket. I spend free time with my friends

other than professional related. I love cars and bikes. Also, I am fond of dressing

too.

4. Tell us about your family members.

My beloved wife Nirmala, is a home maker. My loving son Vignesh – studying in 4th

std in Coimbatore.

5. Your future plans for the family?

Nothing planned specially. I am taking all efforts for my son’s growth only.

6. Your mantra for success in life?

Hardwork and devotion to God.

7. You are a fan of …..(actor/actress or any artist)

Always, all India superstar Rajnikanth and in music, Ilaiyaraaja.

8. Favourite Song / Movie you often hum/see?

Favourite song – Thendral Vandhu (Avatharam)

Favourite movies – Netrikkann and Salangai Oli

9. A place you want to visit

Himalayas & the USA

10. Things on your ‘to-do’ list

Personally, to concentrate in my son’s growth in terms of his studies; and

Officially, I would like to take over the Network development in terms of new sales.

For this, I will have to wait for some time for some reasons.

11. Toughest phase in life

By God’s grace, I am not used to take anything as a tough phase, as of now.

Kolkata Port Trust is aiming at 10 percent growth in cargo handling to 70 million MT in the current

fiscal, amid constraints faced by the riverine port in the eastern part of the country. Transloading has

stabilised and KPT hopeful of handling 2.5 million tonne of cargo through transloading in FY'20. The

port can handle up to 5 MT of cargo through this arrangement.

The next biennial Air Cargo Americas expo and conference, presented by Miami International Airport

(MIA), will be held on October 29 – 31 this year at the Miami Airport & Convention Center. The three-

day show is designed to increase air cargo growth and international business in the Americas. The

conference will include updates on the latest security and safety regulations and provide a forum on

international aviation, maritime and logistics issues in the Western Hemisphere.

Inaugurating the India-Nepal Logistics Summit 2019 in Kathmandu, PM Oli said that at a time when

Nepal has been assuring a conducive environment for trade and investment in recent years, enhanced

investment and trade relationship with India is crucial not just because India is Nepal’s biggest trade

and investment partner, but also an important route for Nepal for third-country trade. Logistics play a

crucial role in enhancing the trade and investment relationship between Nepal and India. Thus, the

government is currently focusing on developing necessary roadways, waterways and railways

connecting the two nations.

At a time when Nepal is bracing for a multi-billion dollar bill for rail connectivity to Chinese ports

located over 4,000 km away, India is discussing the possibility of giving Bangladesh access to the west

coast ports of JNPT or Mundra, which can receive large mother vessels and are located a little over

2,000 km away from Dhaka.

In a significant development, an Indian cargo ship carrying 1,000 tonnes of stone aggregates from

Bhutan arrived in Bangladesh through India via the Brahmaputra river, greatly reducing travel time and

transportation cost. The ship sailed from Dhubri in Assam and travelled to Narayanganj in Bangladesh

over the Brahmaputra river.

Allcargo Logistics, India’s largest integrated, end-to-end logistics solutions provider is turning its

Kolkata container freight station (CFS) into a key driving force to boost exim trade in West Bengal. The

strategic location of West Bengal is a gateway to Eastern India as well as the neighboring countries of

Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Allcargo’s Kolkata CFS is the perfect launch-pad to expand exim

businesses in these regions, said a release.

The completion date of the Multi-Modal Terminal (MMT) being constructed at Sahibganj in Jharkhand

on River Ganga (NW-1), under the Jal Marg Vikas Project is August this year, the Minister of State for

Shipping informed Parliament. He added that the Sahibganj MMT is strategically located in the

logistics chain of the Eastern Transport Corridor, and being close to both NH-80 and the Sakrigali

railway station, it is expected to boost cargo movement in the area, leading to extensive socio-

economic and industrial development of the region.

New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) is aiming to handle traffic of 50 million tonnes per annum (MTPA)

in the next three-four years. The port handled 42.5 million tonnes of cargo in 2018-19. Their plan is to

take it to 44 MTPA in the current fiscal and increase to 50 MTPA in the next three-four years. To

achieve this, it has set sights on container and coastal cargo, as also handling cruise vessels.

Lufthansa Cargo is the latest airline to qualify and approve the CSafe RAP for flight. CSafe RAP utilises

the ThermoCor VIP insulation together with an innovative cooling and heating system to maintain a

defined payload temperature set-point throughout product transport, even in the most extreme

ambient conditions (-30°C to +54°C).

The journey of Kerry Indev Logistics has achieved another milestone by establishing the largest (more

than 5 lakh sq. ft) warehouse at Sriperumpudur, Tamil Nadu, which was inaugurated by the TN Chief

Minister on 4th July. It has all the state-of-art warehousing facilities.

Cathay Pacific has completed the acquisition of Hong Kong Express Airways (HK Express), making the

latter its wholly owned subsidiary. Effective September 1, Cathay Pacific Cargo will be the General

Sales and Service Agent (GSSA) for all HK Express cargo activities across its entire network. HK Express

will continue to operate as usual and work closely with Hong Kong Air Cargo Carrier Limited (RH), the

incumbent cargo GSSA for HK Express, to ensure a smooth transition.

Nirbhik Narang has been appointed the cargo division head of national carrier Air India. Prior to this

position, Narang worked as general manager – commercial at Air India Headquarters in Delhi. Narang

replaces Abhay Pathak, executive director (commercial), cargodivision, Air India. Narang has done his

Master’s in Business Administration and Hotel Management. He brings with him experience of over 30

years in the aviation business.

Qatar Airways Cargo has added Singapore as a new freighter destination on its transpacific freighter

route. The twice-weekly Boeing 777 freighters arrive into Singapore from Chicago. From Singapore,

the freighter departs for Macau on Tuesdays and Saturdays and onward to Los Angeles, Mexico City

and Guadalajara in the Americas before arriving in Doha via Liege. More than 100 tonnes of cargo

capacity is offered on each flight leg.

United Cargo will collaborate with WebCargo by Freightos to design and implement a new online

portal that will provide its customers expanded on-demand booking, dynamic pricing and real-time

updates based on the WebCargo Horizon software-as-a-service platform. The redesigned website

and a number of other innovations will enhance United Cargo’s digital channels and their customers’

experience. Over 1,400 logistics providers use WebCargo to access live pricing, air freight capacity

availability and perform eBookings.

Virgin Atlantic Cargo has awarded contracts to WTA Aviation and Swissport in Israel to support the

launch and growth of the airline’s new daily flights between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv, effective

September 25. WTA will be responsible for selling the 20 tonnes of daily cargo capacity onboard

Virgin Atlantic’s Airbus A330-300 flights. The direct service to London as well as fast daily connections

to major cities across North America are expected to attract high volumes of pharmaceutical,

ecommerce, express and valuable shipments as well as high-tech products, fresh produce and other

general cargo.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released the World Air Transport Statistics

(WATS) for 2018, an authoritative yearbook on the aviation industry. According to the Top 25 Cargo

Carriers list released by WATS, Emirates has retained its position at number 2, carrying 12,713 freight

tonne kilometers (FTK) (million) in 2018. Qatar Airways moved a position higher to the third spot with

12,695 FTK (million) during the same year. FedEx remained firm in its position as the No. 1 cargo

carrier with 17,499 FTK (million), with a 3.8 percent year-on-year increase. The big movers in the

WATS list were Turkish Airlines and United Airlines that moved three positions each to take spots 12

and 17, respectively.

Nearly five months after closing its airspace, Pakistan has reopened it for all civilian air traffic. The

move comes as a huge relief for Indian airlines, especially national airline Air India that suffered

massive financial loss to the tune of Rs.491 crore as it had to re-route its international flights as

Pakistani airspace was shut.

Freight forwarders DB Schenker, Agility Logistics and Hellmann Worldwide Logistics have embraced

Air cargo rates distribution platform, IATA Net Rates, to manage their full air cargo rates spectrum.

IATA Net Rates serves airlines and GSAs to help them streamline the distribution of all their cargo

rates. Through it, freight forwarders can access a unique one-stop-shop for all their air cargo rates

needs. IATA Net Rates work closely with key industry groups, for the development of API standards

and the integration of the solution with other IATA standards such as ONE Record and Cargo XML.

Air cargo has slipped into the doldrums this year, with nothing in the economic indicators or market

trends suggesting demand will strengthen in the months ahead. While it may be too early to predict

with any accuracy whether air cargo will enjoy much of a peak season in the fourth quarter of this

year, the outlooks are not promising. For the air cargo business, the gloomy economic situation is

dragging down volume, and forcing some scheduled carriers to keep freighters on the ground. The

trends indicate that the demand for air capacity should grow drastically at the end of summer and

over the fourth quarter.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its forecast, with global growth now

projected to drop from 3.6 percent in 2018 to 3.2 percent in 2019. IHS Markit China Business Outlook

survey data, says, “The latest business outlook data signals weaker business confidence in China

during June, with activity growth forecasts deteriorating to the lowest in the survey history.”

CH Robinson noted that the ongoing trade war was one of the biggest disruptors to air shipping this

year. The earlier tariff changes in 2018 did not make a huge impact on shipping by air, but demand for

air freight shifted significantly as greater numbers of shippers preemptively repositioned inventory

prior to the 1st June deadline.

Man behind Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission

Recently, India joined as the fourth country in the world to soft-land on the lunar surface, a

feat previously accomplished by only three other countries - the US, Russia, and China.

India’s second lunar journey and its first-ever mission to be spearheaded by two women got

a boost after the ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission, headed to the moon’s South Pole,

achieved an orbit 6,000 km more than what was targeted.

In a remarkable bounce back a week after the Chandrayaan 2 moon mission was aborted, the

Indian Space Research Organisation launched the rocket and put the Chandrayaan 2 satellite

in a "better than expected orbit" on the afternoon of July 22. In addition, Chandrayaan 2 will

land on the moon as per the originally planned date.

The life travel of K Sivan, ISRO Chief is a matter of pride for all of us. It's very inspiring

to read about this man's humble background. Every one of us can take a leaf from his

story.

A rocket expert who loves gardening

The humble son of a farmer from Sarakkalvilai village in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari district,

Kailasavadivoo Sivan as Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman is currently

leading the Chandrayaan-2 mission to Moon.

Sivan studied at a Tamil medium government school. After graduating from ST Hindu

College in Nagercoil, Sivan completed aeronautical engineering from Madras Institute of

Technology (MIT) in 1980 and completed a Master's in engineering from IISc in 1982. In

2006, he received a PhD in aerospace engineering from IIT Bombay.

Sivan is the first graduate in his family. His brother and two sisters were unable to complete

higher education due to their poverty. "When I was in college, I used to help my father in the

field. That was the reason he got me admitted in a college near our house," Sivan told TOI.

"Only when I had completed my BSc (Mathematics) with 100% marks, his mind changed."

Sivan said he had spent his childhood days without a shoe or sandal. "I continued wearing

veshti (dhoti) till college. I wore pants for the first time when I entered MIT."

Barefoot Sivan

He joined ISRO in 1982 and worked on almost all rocket programmes. Before taking charge

as ISRO chairman in January 2018, he was the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

(VSSC), which develops rockets. He is known as ISRO's 'Rocket Man' for his contribution to

the development of cryogenic engine, PSLV, GSLV and reusable launch vehicle (RLV)

programmes. He had also played a key role in the launch of 104 satellites in one go on

February 15, 2017, a world record by ISRO. Though a rocket expert, Sivan loves listening to

Tamil classical songs and doing gardening in his past time. His favourite movie is Rajesh

Khanna-starrer 'Aradhana' of 1969. "When I was VSSC director, I grew a huge variety of roses

in my house garden in Thiruvananthapuram. Now in Bengaluru, I hardly get time," he said.

On July 15, when a glitch in GSLV-MkIII stalled the launch of the Chandrayaan-2 lunar

mission, Sivan quickly set up a high-level team to find the snag and got it fixed within 24

hours. On July 22, he & his team successfully launched the mission from Sriharikota. A few

days ago, PM Narendra Modi, in his 'Mann ki Baat' radio programme, praised ISRO scientists

for fixing the rocket glitch in record time and launching the lunar mission within seven days

of the first scheduled liftoff date.

As on 29th July, Third earth bound orbit raising maneuver for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft has

been performed successfully at 1512 hrs (IST) as planned, using the onboard propulsion

system for a firing duration of 989 seconds. The orbit achieved is 276 x 71792 km.

Read more interest info from here:

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/how-isro-bounced-back-to-launch-chandrayaan-2-an-

inside-story-k-sivan-talks-to-ndtv-2076268

https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/14-unknown-facts-

chandrayaan-2-india-s-moon-mission-to-lunar-south-pole-1574222-2019-07-27

(Compiled by CR Venkatesh, Corp. Office)

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