«LOGISTICS. NORTH-WEST»

Exhibition report 2009

“Logistics. North-West”
INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIZED EXHIBITION-FORUM

Official support of the exhibition:
Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the North-West federal district
Committee on transport and transit policy of Saint Petersburg
General media partner: “RZD-partner”.

For the first time in St. Petersburg the exhibition uniting transport and warehouse logistics was open that enables building an efficient dialogue between cargo owners of the North-West and logistic operators of different levels, producers and suppliers of machinery and equipment for provision of logistic processes.
Appearance of the specialized logistic exhibition in the North-West region was not only welcome but also naturally determined because St. Petersburg is situated at the intersection of sea, river, railway, auto and air traffic routing; there are over 6 million sq. km of storage rooms which is an impartial and integral competitive advantage of the city both at the international and domestic markets of transport-and-logistic services

Companies from Russia, Belarus, Latvia and Germany took part in the exhibition.
Cargo carriage companies, communication and navigation facilities, designers of logistic complexes, warehouse automation systems, racking, outstaffing and insurance were represented at the exhibition.
First-priority task of the organizers was ensuring qualitative composition of the exhibitors and professional visitors

According to the Organizers’ estimates, about 2000 professionals from various branches of industry visited the exhibition: producers and supplies of equipment, components and products for chemical industry, building, food, textile, automotive and other industries.

Composition of visitors appeared to be qualitative enough - over 50% of professionals visited the exhibition represented top-management of companies, 40% - specialists and medium-level managers. Such results were obtained due to the purposeful work of the “FAREXPO” exhibition company which realized a special program on attraction of professional visitors “Profit-Visitor” with use of modern direct-marketing technology by efforts of a specialized Contact-centre of FAREXPO - “CALLS”.

Creation of the atmosphere favoring business communication with partners was possible thanks to availability of a dedicated "Business bar" where companies from St.-Petersburg, Moscow, Pskov and Latvia acted as experts in the fields of cargo transportation, automotive vehicles, auto components and cleaning.
Participants of the “Business-Bar” got an opportunity to establish direct contacts with prospective customers (visitors of the exhibition) and to support business image of their company.

On April 1, 2009, within the bounds of the “Logistics. North-West” exhibition-forum, the conference “North-West Russia Transport & Logistics” took place. The conference was organized by the North-West Development and Investment Promotion Agency.
The event was directed to discussion of the current situation in the transport and logistic complex of the North-West region and up-to-date trends in the field of transport and logistics.
There were representatives of “Oktyabrskaya Railways”, “Evrosib” JSC, “M2M telematika”, “North-West Navigation Technology” Co Ltd, “Relogix SPb”, “Tranzas” JSC, “Antor Business Resheniya” Co Ltd, and Russian Customs Academy among the key speakers

Within the bounds of the exhibition the “BUHta” and “Logwin” companies organized professional tours to the A-class warehouse of the “Logwin” company. Specialists from about 20 companies daily took part in the tours. They saw basic business processes of a warehouse based on WMS “BUHta”: warehouse complex” under operating warehouse conditions – operation of acceptance, selection, transport and shipment of the goods using a data acquisition terminal. Direct communication with a manager of the warehouse and its workers enabled the specialists visited the tour to get maximum of useful information on capabilities of the “BUHta” WMS system.

A conference «Effective warehouse: from conceptual design to putting into operation» became the key event of the “Logistics. North-West” exhibition business program in a warehouse logistics section. The representatives of “Nedkon C Group”, “Astera”, “Dialog Information Technology”, “Personalnoe Reshenie” and other companies spoke at the conference.
The conference organizers - ITKOR institute and FAREXPO Exhibition Company - noted high visitor activity. The warehouse conference gathered over 100 experts.
Thus, the work of the conference confirmed the necessity of regular holding in St. Petersburg of such level events for specialists of warehouse industry and cargo owners. The next conference will take place in May 2010 within the bounds of II International Specialized Exhibition “Logistics. North-West”.