The Hamburg, Germany, logistics company Hoyer is currently working on the development of a seventh business unit to be launched under the name Netlog on January 1, 2016. Netlog will manage the group-wide equipment pool to achieve further optimizations.
The system will undertake the coordination for this and will always provide the other business units with the ideal equipment, thus enabling the latter to focus entirely on their transport business. Pooling volumes offers decisive benefits, especially when buying equipment and in reducing vacancy rates. In the future Netlog will also push forward the renting of tank containers and intermediate bulk containers.
“The system with our business units has proved its worth in the past”, says Ortwin Nast, Hoyer chief operating officer. “Because equipment is one of our most important assets, we have taken a strategic decision to set up a new business unit for it. This will enable us to develop our processes further and to push forward innovations.”
Hoyer brought in Heiko Rumfeld to help develop the operation in July. He will assume the position of Netlog business unit director January 1, 2016. By recruiting this graduate engineer, Hoyer gains access to comprehensive know-how in the logistics area. Heiko Rumfeld was previously the managing director of the Duisport agency, where his main responsibility was to expand the port in the container traffic area. At the age of 48, he can look back on many years of company service at Hapag Lloyd, where among other things he was the senior director responsible for European Region Sales and Customer Service.
“Hoyer is one of the world’s market leaders in bulk logistics, and has a considerable tank container fleet of over 34,000 units at its disposal”, says Heiko Rumfeld, Netlog business unit director. “I am glad to be there at the start in the development of Netlog, and to be able to contribute my experience to it.”