Global Link’s FLEX Service Expands to Shanghai

May 7, 2008  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Customer Service on May 2008 Global Link Logistics, Atlanta, a leading furniture freight forwarder from China to the United States, has expanded FLEX, its trans-Pacific mixed and less-than-container service, to include the Shanghai region of China effective immediately. With the expansion to Shanghai, FLEX is now available from the three major Asian furniture origins: Ho Chi Minh City, Yantian and Shanghai.

Several furniture manufacturers, including Chromcraft-Revington, Lane Furniture, and Schnadig are already on board with the Shanghai FLEX service.

“We are excited to participate and partner with Global Link Logistics in this new opportunity,” said Mike Gregory, vice president of dealer services and transportation for Lane Furniture. “Lane’s new ‘Consolidated Container’ program will allow participating retailers, regardless of size, the ability to mix our most popular imported upholstery products, from multiple Asian factories on a single container, while offering significant cost savings.”

FLEX was created so manufacturers and dealers of all sizes could cost-effectively consolidate orders from any number of factories at origin and ship individual orders—as small as 300 cubic fee—directly to any destination in the contiguous United States and many Canadian points through a logistics network dedicated to furniture. FLEX offers furniture importers the cost advantages of a direct container program combined with the order size flexibility of a North American warehouse program.

“As the cost of fuel and transportation continues to increase, furniture importers are looking for ways to gain a competitive advantage,” said John Williford, president of Global Link Logistics. “Global Link’s expansion of FLEX provides furniture importers with a transportation option in Shanghai that will give their companies that advantage.”

FLEX was also expanded in the Midwestern United States in November 2007.