Ward Van Lines offers new customer air miles scheme
3rd June 2016

 

Chilean moving company Ward Van Lines has teamed up with Latin America airlines LATAM to offer a new air miles scheme for its customers.

 
Any customer that moves with Ward Van Lines within Chile or internationally to any city in the world now has the opportunity to earn LATAM Pass kilometers (an air miles scheme).  These can be used to travel to and experience new destinations, make upgrades to Business Class with these airlines or any One World alliance partner airline or redeem them against products in the LATAM catalogue.
 
 
Sebastian Laporta, Managing Director of Ward Van Lines, said the scheme is innovative. “With this partnership, Ward Van Lines again shows that it now only wants to provide a quality service to its customers but the customer also receives a prize for their loyalty.” 
 
 
In August 2010 LAN and TAM airlines announced their plan to merge their holdings into a single entity, called ‘LATAM Airlines Group’. Together, TAM and LAN have more than 40 thousand employees, 280 aircraft, and 115 destinations in 23 countries, while also offering cargo services worldwide. 
 
 
Photo:  Sebastian Laporta of Ward Van Lines with Sebastian Brusadelli (Alliance-Partnership Manager of Latampass )
 

Suddath takes first at American EMMAs
3rd June 2016

 

The Suddath Companies took first place at the American EMMAs (Expatriate Management and Mobility Award) organised by the Forum for Expatriate Management (FEM) in the category International Moving Company of the Year.  The Florida-based company took the trophy ahead of Paramount Transport Systems and Crown World Mobility in second and third.

 

The awards ceremony took place on 5 May in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  The EMMAs celebrate excellence in the global mobility by recognising industry leaders, business successes and standout-individuals in 26 categories. A judging committee of 15 FEM members from various global industries independently reviews nominations and selects the winners. 

 

Laura May highly commended at EMMAs
3rd June 2016

Laura May Carmack from AIReS was ‘highly commended’ in the category Global Mobility Professional of the Year at the 2016 EMMAs.

The awards ceremony took place on 5 May in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  The EMMAs celebrate excellence in global mobility by recognising industry leaders, business successes and standout-individuals in 26 categories. A judging committee of 15 FEM members from various global industries independently reviews nominations and selects the winners. 

Photo:  Laura May Carmack

 

Shanghai Customs update
26th May 2016

OMNI would like to thank Jenny Xu at Asian Tigers Mobility for providing the following update…

“In November 2015 Shanghai Customs started to enforce an existing rule for foreign passport holders.  Only long term transferees (with either work or residence permit valid over 365 days) are allowed to import household goods into Shanghai.  Recently, Shanghai customs started to apply the same rule for outbound sea shipments.  While they have previously accepted to clear shipments with permits valid for 10-12 months plus an explanation letter from the company in China, this is no longer the case.

All clients with permits valid less than 365 days are now treated as“short term assignments”and are therefore only allowed to include basic household items, such as clothes, kitchenware, etc. in their shipments.  Items that are no longer allowed include all types of furniture, food & electronics (i.e. TVs, video camera, HIFI systems and speakers, lamps, refrigerator, washer/dryer, desktop computer etc.)

The above does not apply for clients with short term permits if they had previous permits issued over 365 days with no interruption to the current one.

We will continue to monitor the situation.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the undersigned at jenny.xu@asiantigers-china.com.”