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PRESS RELEASE
WOLTERS KLUWER TRANSPORT SERVICES opens an office in
Brazil and accelerates its development in South America
• Wolters Kluwer Transport Services extends its activity in South American markets
• Adriano Garcia joins WKTS as Brazil and Latin America Business Developer
WOLTERS KLUWER TRANSPORT SERVICES (WKTS), a leading
developer and integrator of Transport Management Software
(TMS), offered on the web, for all the transport and logistics
professionals, began a new stage in its international expansion with
the opening of an office in Sao Paulo Brazil. This new location in
addition to those existing in Europe, North America and Asia, is part
of the strategy of WKTS to continue its coverage of major global
markets in "logistics and transportation" in order to better serve its
customers both international and local.
The responsibility of WKTS development in Brazil and throughout
Latin America has been given to Adriano Garcia, Business
Development Manager. Adriano Garcia has a long experience in the
Logistics and Transportation Industry (Kuehne+Nagel, DB Schenker,
Geodis, Panalpina).
The new office offers the opportunity to WKTS to accompany its clients in the deployment of its
solutions on their Brazilian sites and more broadly in all countries of the South American continent.
Several customers of WKTS, like Lhoist (Mining industry), AGC (Glass industry), Caterpillar
(Machinery and Equipments) and Invista (Chemical Industry) are already using WKTS-Transwide
solutions in their Brazilian sites.
This new entity also represents a tremendous opportunity to make known WKTS and to sell its range
of transportation management software and business expertise in the Brazilian market, where many
companies are currently seeking to optimize their supply chain.
Fabrice Maquignon, Chief Executive Officer at Wolters Kluwer Transport Services (WKTS),
comments:
« This new office is a major step for our Transwide Shipper TMS suite. We have seen an acceleration
of our internationalization over the past 2 years and our SaaS TMS suite is ideally suited to provide
global companies with a unique control tower for their transport operations. »
Adriano Garcia, in charge of Business Development in Latin America, adds:
«Our Brazil office is an essential milestone in the WKTS strategy to develop its activities in Brazil and
in all Latin American countries. Our customers can now benefit from our local support. In addition,
we are confident that our solutions and expertise meet the expectations of South American
companies that are experiencing problems of managing and optimizing their transport. »
WKTS will first offer the Brazilian market its software named TRANSWIDE, a Transport Management
System (TMS) available on demand via the web, dedicated to the Shippers (Manufacturers, Retailers,
Logistic Providers…). Transwide’s main functionalities are:
- Transport Spot Bidding
- Automated carrier selection
- Transport Orders Communication, Delivery Tracking and Proof of Deliveries
- Yard Management, Dock scheduling for (un)loading of trucks
- Transport Costs and Settlement Management
- Transport Reporting and KPI
About Wolters Kluwer Transport Services
Wolters Kluwer Transport Services, headquartered in Brussels, is a renowned expert in transport
efficiency for carriers, freight forwarders, logistics service providers and shippers. Via access to
freight exchange (Teleroute, Bursa Transport & 123cargo) and transport and supplier relationship
management solutions (FreightCentral, TAS-tms & Transwide), they profit from a fast and high
return on investment and are enabled to continuously optimize their transport flows in terms of
revenues and costs. Furthermore they gain valuable business insights in real time and stay
connected via a unique and secure online platform to the largest community of transport & logistics
professionals (+100.000).
www.wktransportservices.com
Wolters Kluwer Transport Services is part of Wolters Kluwer, which had 2014 annual revenues of
€3.7 billion ($4.9 billion), employs 19,000 employees worldwide, and maintains operations in over
170 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Wolters Kluwer is
headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on Euronext
Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices.
Media contact:
Ieva Farlet | Corporate Communications Manager
Wolters Kluwer Transport Services
Belgicastraat 17 | 1930 Zaventem | Belgium
T. +32 (0)2 290 89 46 | M. +32 (0)474 742 830
Sales contact:
Adriano Garcia | Regional Business Development Manager South America
Wolters Kluwer Transport Services
Rua Bela Cintra, 643 - 7o. Floor | 01415-000 São Paulo | Brazil
M. + 55 11 98744 5055
