Den Hartogh Logistics awarded with TLN Innovation Award

Dutch trade association Transport & Logistics Netherlands (TLN) has awarded Den Hartogh Logistics with the TLN Innovation Award. The award was handed over by Dutch Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen (Infrastructure and Water Management). Den Hartogh Logistics was nominated for the development and implementation of Cluster Service Rotterdam.

“Den Hartogh is an excellent example of a transport firm that has successfully transformed into a logistics chain director that ensures efficiency in transport. The key factors leading to this evolution were the early investment in highly advanced IT solutions for the monitoring and optimisation of transport flows and container storage, substantial investments in the training of its own workforce, the successful recruitment of a large number of qualified graduates from some of the Netherlands’ best logistics degree programmes and virtually continuous, project-based collaboration with many of our country’s research universities,” said the jury.

Horizontal and vertical collaboration, trimodal terminal, clustering, fewer empty loads thanks to densification, synchromodality, chain efficiency, the PortShuttle, a shortage of drivers; these concepts all come together in Cluster Service Rotterdam and all within a business setting that is based on concrete contractual agreements. The Cluster Service is intended to improve the efficiency of tank container flows moving in and out of the area for the chemical industry and to minimise the truck mileage total in Rotterdam’s chemical cluster. Den Hartogh achieves this by promoting densification on the basis of horizontal collaboration and by exploiting the full potential of the local intermodal infrastructure.

The launch of this concept originated in the vertical collaboration between Den Hartogh, one of its major chemical clients in Rotterdam and the CTT trimodal terminal at Pernis. The client aimed to develop on-site logistics. Amongst other things this would allow the company to minimise the number of different drivers who enter its site for safety reasons.

For more information visit www.denhartogh.com

19th November 2018