helo everyone!, yesterday, a forwarder, dimerco, called me,following up some business proposal for their promo rate in germany, the name of their account executive is victoria nazal, a very entrepreneurial lady, with a good view in business world, but still new in the forwarding world. i usually give equal interest for organizations directly or inderectly involved in this kind of business exporting equal opporunities to grow, by sharing with them my know how in the export world for about 38 years( i was ingrade 2) when i was introduced in the world of business, knowing first the supply side and market of a certain product(in my case, my fathers partime business/hobby, was then buy and sell of copra, palay, abacaand other forest products, plus aquamarine products too, as our town is blessed with amplecentral ricelands, forest mountains(where the towns water supply come from) and coastal barangays., and in 1979 was introduced in the export/international world, c/o happag lloyd shipping line by exporting to the benelux countries, initially hammocks.and it is how i got to know the operation of different forwarding companies in the philippines, where some come and go and some get bigger and buy-out or merge with other companies and some close operations,all basically to management syle differences. as i personally believed that all businesses are alright, the only thing that makes the difference is the "management" all businesses are best. it depends on how one manages it.

going back to dimerco forwarding, they are following up if there are shipments we have now. yes we have, in fact next week, we have a container going to guam and by august 10, we have sample deployment to italy.the thing is, all these shipments are all nominated by this buyer, however, which is 90% of all philipppine shipment, and if you are a forwarder not nominated, your chance is 10% but we can work together ednless possibilities if the forwarder can give us information on the present actualmovement of their goods of handicrafts, so we weill knowntheir specialty and can refer to them whenever a buyer go bo us from that place, or send us their existing clients of handicraft buyers in the philippines , so we can promote our products to them and when they order , that forwarder get the business.

i have a special situation, wherein an account executive, i was dealing with for 5 years in kuhne and nagel, finally got a break to have his own forwarding company, being nominted by a taiwanese company. he called for an appointmentto me one time, and he got lucky, because, one of our shipment has no nomination yet, and he got the business in america for that client. the name of the guy was dinio, but i have know him for 5 years before he got that break. after 3 years we met again in a trade show and now he is making good.

so, what i can really say is in this business, the system of give and take applies, or the golden rule. the world is always changing in this information age, tanks god we have this technology, to give / update information with our colleagues in the industry, to have an efficient operation. thus, you set your limits or limitations with this business.

have a nice day and god bless us all!!!