Global Link Logistics to Discuss Fuel Impact, Transportation at High Point Market

October 1, 2008  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Delivery on October 2008 Global Link Logistics, a leading forwarder of furniture from Asia to the United States, will host a panel discussion at the High Point Market offering logistics insight from experts in the furniture forwarding, ocean transportation and trucking industries to help furniture industry businesses navigate choppy economic waters.

Global Link’s free panel discussion, “Understanding Cost-Effective Solutions for Today’s Furniture Logistics,” is scheduled for 1 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 21, in the seminar room of the NHFA’s Retailer Resource Center on the 12th floor of the International Home Furnishings Center.

Topics will include combating rising fuel and transportation costs, managing Asia logistics, and cost-effective transportation and logistics strategies for today’s global economy.

Panelists include Ed Feitzinger, senior vice president, Global Link; Gene Winters, vice president of sales, Global Link; David Xiao, vice president of marketing and pricing, “K” Line America; Ray Kuntz, chairman, American Trucking Associations, and CEO, Watkins and Shepard Trucking Inc.

“The furniture industry is feeling the impact of rising fuel and transportation costs at a time of shrinking consumer demand,” said Hessel Verhage, president of Global Link Logistics. “There are still ways for furniture firms to reduce the landed cost and cash outlay required to meet demand. Global Link and our expert panelists are looking forward to discussing these topics and insights with the furniture industry at Market.”

Global Link’s panel discussion is part of the National Home Furnishings Association’market seminar program at IHFC.