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VSL SiloLogistics set to work for INEOS-Lillo
Dutch logistics service provider enters into extensive contract with Belgian branch of chemical giant
-21-09-2009 VSL SiloLogistics will be the new Logistic Service Provider of INEOS-Lillo, part of one of the largest independent chemical groups in the world. During the next five years, VSL SiloLogistics will be working on the implementation and management of onsite logistics processes and related transport in Lillo, Belgium. The contract is set to start on 1 October, the companies agreed today.
CEO Jacques Kleinkramer of VSL SiloLogistics: ‘We are of course pleased that INEOS-Lillo has chosen us. After we had won the tender, we were complimented by INEOS on our professionalism in the preliminary stage. To us that is an important confirmation of the fact that we have been taking the right steps since last year, after a challenging period in which we had to break free from our past parent Vos Logistics and in which the market was also rapidly deteriorating.'
'We feel last year's efforts are starting to pay off,' Kleinkramer concludes. 'In a short period of time we've regained the trust of multiple key players, including INEOS-Lillo. This is a splendid opportunity for the ‘VSL family' to show our added value.'
Since its formation in 1998, INEOS has grown in size to become the third biggest independent chemical group in the world, with 64 plants and around 15,500 staff. In Belgium the company mainly produces intermediate products, synthetics and specialties, which serve as a basis for products that can be found in all aspect of modern life. The site in Lillo produces polyethylene and polypropylene.
VSL SiloLogistics are specialists in the field of storage and transhipment, packaging and distribution of dry bulk and packed goods. The company is successor in title to a Vos Logistics unit that was sold to the current owners in 2007. VSL SiloLogistics is one of the largest players in Europe, thanks to its considerable silo storage capacity near six strategic locations in the Netherlands and Belgium, among other things.