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All Set for The Cooperative Logistics Network’s 8th Annual Meeting

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The international freight forwarders conference will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, from 28th to 30th May 2025

The Cooperative Logistics Network’s 8th Annual Meeting will in the dynamic city of Abu Dhabi, UAE, from 28th to 30th May 2025. The highly anticipated event will take place at the Intercontinental Hotel Abu Dhabi, a stunning beachfront property just a short drive from the international airport. This annual conference provides a premier platform for freight forwarders to connect, collaborate, and explore new business opportunities. With a focus on boosting project opportunities for its members, the conference will help participants maximize the full potential of their network membership.

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The Coop’s 8th Annual Meeting

 

The event will kick off with a Corporate Day Trip, followed by a Welcome Cocktail Reception, allowing delegates to break the ice and network in a relaxed setting before the intensive one-to-one business meetings begin the next day. During the conference, each participant will have the opportunity to engage in up to 32 pre-arranged one-to-one meetings with fellow network partners. These face-to-face meetings are the cornerstone of the event, playing a crucial role in fostering business collaboration and creating lasting professional relationships. Additionally, attendees will benefit from FreightViewer workshops, where they will learn about the latest tools and features of The Coop’s exclusive freight rate management platform.

Additionally, the conference provides numerous opportunities for delegates to socialize, develop trust, and form stronger working relationships. Social events such as the group tour, the Welcome Cocktail Reception, and the Gala Dinner Party will ensure a perfect balance between business and leisure throughout the conference.

Antonio Torres, President and Founder of The Cooperative Logistics Network, emphasized the network’s commitment to delivering an unparalleled experience: “We’ve put significant effort into making sure our annual meetings provide maximum value to our members. Our team is dedicated to creating a seamless, productive, and rewarding networking experience. This event will act as a dynamic hub where members can forge long-term partnerships with reliable logistics partners worldwide.”

To streamline the experience, The Cooperative will once again provide a dedicated web app that consolidates all essential event information, ensuring that attendees have easy access to meeting schedules and other important updates at their fingertips.

Stay tuned for more information on The Cooperative’s Annual Meeting page.

The Coop creates a new mobile application for its members

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The Cooperative Logistics Network’s web app will allow members to touch base with their partners and the network 24×7 via their mobile devices

The Coop has developed a member-exclusive mobile application that agents can save to their Apple and Android devices via Google Play or App Store. Members will now find all the important network information as well as their partner’s contact at their fingertips. The app can be used to find any agent within the network and interact with them instantly via Skype, email, or WhatsApp.

Digitalization and the introduction of technology-oriented operations have become all the more important in the post-pandemic era and are indispensable for the smooth transformation of this sector. Industry 4.0 is in need of more effective tools and processes that save time, boost productivity, and increase the outreach of the companies. The creation of The Coop’s mobile app is one more significant step of the network in this path.

The Coop Web App
The Coop Web App

 

As stated by Antonio Torres, The President and Founder of Cooperative Logistics Network, “We have created this new web app to facilitate instant engagement between our agents who can now find their network partners by their name, country or territory and immediately start a conversation with them. This application will surely take the digitization endeavours of our network one step further.”

With this application, The Coop agents will be able to quickly access all the latest updates from their partners and the network. It will keep the agents posted with all the key updates from the network and they will also be able to edit their profile with just a few taps on the phone.

Click this link on your mobile devices to access The Coop’s web app.

The year 2022 has been a highly productive one for The Coop

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In the last 12 months, the Coop has made many significant achievements that are contributing to the growth of the network and its members

The year 2022, has turned out to be a very constructive one for The Cooperative Logistics Network. The Coop’s team has accomplished several of its objectives, thus helping the members to make their presence felt in the freight forwarding industry.

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Cooperative Logistics Network

 

In March 2022, The Cooperative Logistics Network fulfilled its long-time ambition of creating a unique learning opportunity for the network members. The Coop partnered with esteemed organizations like CIFFA (Canadian International Freight Forwarders Association) and Container xChange to offer online logistics certificate courses that will allow the agents to augment their skills and industry knowledge.

The Coop has bolstered its social media endeavours by opening a new Instagram handle. In addition to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn, we are now making our presence felt on Instagram. The Coop team firmly believes that an active presence across several social media platforms helps expand our network’s outreach.

Additionally, The Cooperative Logistics Network has welcome many new agents to further increase its coverage. Presently the Coop has members in over 327 cities in 135 countries around the world and this number will keep growing in the coming year.

Lastly, The Coop team is working relentlessly to organize an in-person Annual Meeting in Phuket, Thailand, in March 2023, after a two years gap due to the pandemic. Finally, The Coop agents will get to come together under one roof for networking and socializing activities. To this end, the network has created a special Annual Meeting web portal from where the agents can easily access all information relating to the Annual Meeting from one page. It brings together all the pertinent information about the event at the members’ fingertips and simplifies the registration, room reservation, and meeting slot booking processes.

As stated by Antonio Torres, The President and Founder of The Cooperative Logistics Network, “With the economic downturn caused by the pandemic, it is imperative for the independent freight forwarders to stick together, work on concerted projects, and offer first-rate services to expand their outreach. This is exactly what we are helping our members to achieve and all our endeavours are aimed at accomplishing this objective.”

 

 

The Cooperative Logistics Network launches a new Online Certificate

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Members will be able to download the document by accessing their Members Area

In a bid to digitize their services, improve the network and offer the best and most innovative advantages to its members, The Cooperative Logistics Network is now offering an Online Certification. In order to do so, the IT Department has put together a new section in the intranet. This will enable The Coop members to download their network certificate with the date on which the network accepted them.

The Coop's membership certificate
The Coop’s membership certificate

 

This document accrediting membership will be available for download and print from the Members Area. Moreover, freight forwarders who belong to the network will only need to access its intranet and click on the “Certificate” tab to find it in the Dashboard.

In the words of Antonio Torres, President and Founder of The Cooperative Logistics Network “We are working hard to digitize all our services to make our members work easier. With just a click, they will be able to download the Online Membership Certificate. This will be an official Certificate of Membership that proves that the company is a member of The Cooperative Logistics Network and has passed through a rigorous selection process”.

The news about Coop’s record number of members receives a truly global coverage!

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The news of The Coop’s new coverage record has been published in prominent international journals dedicated to the supply chain and freight forwarding industry

The Cooperative Logistics Network has recently added its 300th agent to the network and this news about the Coop’s record number of members has been covered by some of the most prominent logistics web magazines from all around the world. They talked about how the network is helping the members to augment their businesses and how only the freight forwarders of the highest standard can become a part of the network. Furthermore, the news also talks about the implication of the growth of the network and the reasons behind its success.

Websites like AJOT, Novologistica, Trade Arabia, Logistics Business, Gulf Projects, Diario del Puerto, Gulf Industry, Logistics Brief, DC Velocity, Hellenic Shipping News, Actualidad Maritma y Portuaria, News Locker, Noticias del Transporte and Viente Pies have covered the news of The Coop’s 300 members:

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The Cooperative Logistics Network news about the its record number of members published in the most prominent magazines of the logistics industry

AJOT is an American Journal of Transportation is a pioneer in supply chain management publications with a total global readership of 43,344.

Trade Arabia is a Bahrain based Business News Information website that covers several business sectors including supply chain, real estate, oil and gas, health, tourism, and more.

Logistics Business is a logistics business journal published from the United Kingdom where you will find news and resources from the logistics and transportation industry.

Novologistica is a Spanish language logistics news portal offering a comprehensive source of information regarding all everything related to the supply chain industry.

Gulf Projects is a tenders and business news website dedicated to readers in the Gulf and the Middle East.

Diario del Puerto is a Spanish logistics news website where readers will find everything related to the logistics industry in Spain.

Gulf Industry is a must-read web journal for entrepreneurs, manufacturers and distributors across all industries in the Gulf and the Middle East.

VeintePies is a logistics and transportation web magazine published in Spain which offers extensive coverage of all topics related to the transportation and freight forwarding industry.

Logistics Brief is an English language logistics web journal where a plethora of supply chain related topics can be found.

DC Velocity is a highly popular multi-media brand serving all the informational needs of the professionals in the logistics and supply chain industry.

Hellenic Shipping News is an online daily newspaper focussing on the shipping news in the Mediterranean and beyond for more than 10 years.

Actualidad Maritima y Portuaria is a Spanish language digital journal which has been online since 2009 and is an initiative of the students and professors of the International Maritime Business School.

Transport News is the online version of Transportation News Radio which extensively covers all the major news and events in the industry.

News Locker is a news website which brings news on every possible topic from all corners of the world.

This massive coverage of our network is sure to have a positive impact on our brand.

COOP agent in Bremen, Hamburg and Frankfurt names FreightViewer as the game-changer tool for members

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After testing our Transport Management Software, Mika, from Kopf & Luebben GMBH, states that FreighViewer is a great opportunity to take the next step towards digitization.

Mika Seebeck, in charge of the airfreight and EDI in Kopf & Luebben GMBH, is now working with FreightViewer and comments that software will be the next important step for K&L to optimize the daily business process

Mr. Mika states: “FreightViewer will become a really useful and important tool for K+L. Our customers no longer need to wait for our quotations, they just enter the shipment details and immediately obtain the cost for their shipment. Additionally, it will save a lot of time for us, since we do not need to calculate and offer rates manually to our agents and customers. And as you know, time is money“.

Our agent also comments that: “All Members can use it for free and save much time with this tool. The software can use the rates from other COOP members as well and if a customer of K+L needs the delivery charges in another country the system will check if a COOP member has uploaded valid import rates and uses these rates for the quotation […]It can help all COOP Members in their daily business process and it is a feature which nearly all our competitors are unable to provide”

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FreightViewer Department will be happy to assist you if you may need any assistance with the use of the software or if you would like to know more about the system by scheduling a personalized demo. Please contact amartin@thecooperativelogisticsnetwork.com

Successful start of new freight forwarder network: ITJ

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The Cooperative Logistics Network launched one month ago (see ITJ Daily of 16 September), promising applicants a 6-month, free trial in exchange for registering attendance at its 1st annual meeting next May. This promise has proved extremely popular, with hundreds of applications being received weekly.

The Coop team has been studying and whittling down the number of applicants to a block of 100 founding members which will be unveiled when the network has its operational launch on 1 December 2014.

New logistics network reports applicants abound: Maritime Global News

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The Cooperative Logistics Network launched with the promise to applicants of a six-month free trial in exchange for registering attendance at its first annual meeting next May. According to the network, hundreds of applications are being received weekly

Founder, Antonio Torres, explained, “Attendance at the first annual meeting is the best way for agents to kick-start their membership. From our experience in the networking industry, we have found that attendance at annual meetings is crucial to ensuring any members’ success; it’s a proven fact that members who attend increase their business.”Torres continued, “Agents work with people they have formed relationships with – this is true of any industry. I believe that the best freight forwarders understand the importance of meeting in person and so those applicants who say no to attending do not have a genuine interest in developing a worldwide network of agents and, therefore, are not for us.”

The Coop team has been studying and whittling down the number of applicants to a block of 100 founding members which will be unveiled when the network has its operational launch on December 1, 2014.

“The standard of applications has been extremely high. To date we have accepted enough companies to fill over 50% of our original target of 100 founding members. We firmly believe we will meet and increase this target well in advance of December 1st,” Torres said.
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Cooperative Network proves attractive to freight forwarders: marinelink.com

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Just one week on from its launch, the team have already processed hundreds of applications and started building its block of founding members, as well as receiving hundreds of website hits and requests for information
“This is as good a start as any network founder could hope for,” said Managing Director Antonio Torres, himself a veteran network owner (CONQUEROR Freight Network), who exactly four years on has launched The Cooperative Logistics Network, a capped nonexclusive network with freight forwarders in each major air/seaport who cooperate in a financially secure environment to reduce costs and risks and grow their businesses together to compete against the multinationals.“The popularity of the network is reassuring us that our first goal of recruiting 100 agents for our December operational launch is achievable as well as our target of 75 main cities covered by our first annual meeting in May 2015,” Torres said.

A six-month trial is being given to those agents who, once accepted into the network, commit to attending the networks’ first annual meeting. “You could say this is a bit of a risk but I firmly believe that those applicants who say no to attending do not have a genuine interest in developing a worldwide network of agents,” Torres explained. “These are not the kind of members we want.”

The Cooperative Logistics Network will allow a maximum of three agents per city with the exception of the largest cities allowing 5. “The network will provide the intimacy needed for business relationships to grow whilst maintaining the autonomy many forwarders want when choosing business partners,” said Membership Development Coordinator, Eduardo Paternina.

Cooperative Logistics Network launched as an alternative to multinationals: Analytiqa

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Promoted worldwide as an attractive new alternative for shippers. Applications are being accepted to join The Cooperative Logistics Network, a capped non-exclusive network in which hand-picked freight forwarders in each major air/seaport co-operate in a financially secure environment to reduce costs and risks and grow their businesses together to compete against the largest multinationals.

As the multinationals gain market share annually, independent forwarders lacking a global brand have been helpless to fight back.
The Cooperative Logistics Network will immediately give members a global brand, allowing them to bid for the largest contracts and receive better rates from carriers.

The Cooperative Logistics Network will allow a maximum of three agents per city with the exception of the largest cities allowing five. The network will provide the intimacy needed for business relationships to grow whilst maintaining the autonomy many forwarders want when choosing business partners.