US Navy selects Red Arrow Logistics as Prime Contractor; CommScope appoints TDG to be its single Northern Europe logistics service provider; CHEP renews its contract with Norbert Dentressangle; VW and BLG sign a new three-year contract; Lockheed Martin signs a new multi-year contract with Damco's Government Services Team.

Red Arrow Logistics has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the NAVSEA Warfare Centre (NSWC) Dahlgren Division under the SeaPort-e Program.

Under this contract, Red Arrow becomes a vendor to numerous organisations within the Navy, including Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), and the US Marine Corps.
SeaPort-e is the Navy's electronic platform for acquiring support services in 22 functional areas including Logistics Support, Supply & Provisioning Support and Program Management. 

TDG has been selected to run CommScope's full warehouse-operation, including VAL-activities like cable-cutting and extended kitting-processes, in TDG's Veenendaal facilities.
After managing all of CommScope s warehouse activities in Hilversum for the past eighteen years, TDG will transfer the operation from Hilversum to Veenendaal later this year.
This will effectively finalise the integration of four different warehouse locations across Europe into a single European hub in the Netherlands.

CHEP has once again renewed its contract with Norbert Dentressangle, continuing the relationship that began in 2005 when Norbert Dentressangle was appointed to manage CHEP's service centre in Dunstable., which was replaced with a new £4 million facility in 2009.

The centre in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, consists of a 2,200 m2 plant building and a six-acre yard, which can hold 173,000 pallets. It is one of CHEP's largest service centres in Europe in terms of throughput.  The plant contains 24 repair benches on two production lines and handles up to 170,000 pallets per week. Every year, around seven million pallets are inspected, repaired and painted as required, and then despatched to retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers and growers across the southeast of England.

Norbert Dentressangle will now invest another £300,000 in automated pallet stencilling equipment.

BLG Logistics has been appointed to manage the CKD dispatch for Volkswagen logistics, the internal logistics service provider of Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, delivering around 3,000 car parts and components to Volkswagen production locations worldwide.

The commission includes the receipt, control, storage, packaging, commissioning, containerisation, dispatch and the management of remaining packaging.

The three-year contract, which begins in November 2010 with the option of an extension, will operate in BLG's facility in the freight village (GVZ) Bremen.

Lockheed Martin has signed a new multi-year contract with Damco's Government Services Team for supply network modelling for the F-35.

The purpose of this continuing effort is to establish an F-35 supply network model that supports production and sustainment through December 2012. The modelling provides Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (LMA) insight into Damco's capability to address the value and service impacts of various potential transportation models.

Specifically, Damco's model optimises transportation flows for all movements between suppliers, LMA, and other partners on the program. The analysis provides LMA with key information on cost, lead-time, capacity, and reliability for transportation routing and warehousing. This data enables informed decisions on routings that present an optimal balance of cost and risk to enable effective transition from design to operations.

Lockheed Martin and Damco have also formed a broader cooperative alliance to collaborate on joint business pursuits across a diverse business segments range also involving other business units within the AP Moller - Maersk Group. The MOU establishes a collaborative business arrangement for the purpose of identifying and analysing potential business opportunities that will leverage their capabilities, assets, and worldwide infrastructure in the defence, logistics and transportation market sectors.