Brigitte MICHAUD has received the prize for the logistics manager of the year last week in Paris. The award was given during the Assises de la Logistique.

Besides the fact that it is a woman, there is another great news with this award, it is because the project that was carried out by Brigitte MICHAUD and her company (she is logistics manager of RECKITT BENCKISER) is just unique.
Everybody has been talking about it since a year now: the HECORE project is good news for modern logistics and environmental issues. It gathers 3 large companies (RECKITT BENCKISER, HENKEL and COLGATE) around a mutualisation of the transport, storage and order management.

Mrs MICHAUD has a sound background in the field of logistics. I was also impressed by the originality of the ceremony : a TV show animated by Marianne Kottenhoff (journalist at LCI) around big names such as GSE, PROLOGIS, NISSAN FORKLIFT et EOL.

For those who prefer French, I started a new blog (almost like this one) in French only: http://www.western-france.info/logistique. I’ll put new information on it very soon.

I’m back from a business convention (Top Transport Europe, organized by the Adhesion group) that took place in Marseille end of September. I met several business men interested into getting their stuff from Spain and Portugal and receiving it in France. Everybody would think that goods have to be shipped or carried to France via Marseille or any other Mediterranean French city, yet there is another solution, quite cost-effective: shipping them from Portugal to Western France via the sealink that goes from Vigo to the port of Montoir Saint Nazaire. The connection is made 4 times a week via Acciona Trasmediterranea and is mainly used for Ro-Ro trafic. Yet, heavy stuff like granite or slate can be shipped on the vessels and many more other goods.
I am sure this link from Western France to the Iberica peninsula is not used at its full capacity. I’d be glad to let you know more about it, if it is of interest for you. Just let me know…