Friday, April 01, 2011 — Logistics Insight Asia - Top Story
Agility has broken ground on a logistics facility in Melaka, Malaysia. The new facility is scheduled to open in September and will house the Melaka branch office of Agility.
The new logistics center will support a variety of industry sectors and will target the growing alternative renewable energy industries in Melaka. It will also provide a full range of vendor managed inventory (VMI) and other logistics services to Agility's customers in this sector.
"Agility is at the forefront of developing its logistics services for the renewable energy sector in Malaysia," said Mike Gildea, Agility, CEO, Southeast Asia. "We are very proud to support the pioneering work of the State of Melaka in developing the Melaka World Solar Valley to facilitate industries in this fast emerging market sector. Malaysia is a strategically important country for us and opening this facility is another example of our long-term commitment."
The new 11,890 square meter hub will incorporate the latest energy saving technology and has been designed to meet the latest ecological standards, to include maximizing the use of natural light to reduce energy costs. The hub will be TAPA certified and will have 10 loading docks, a full staging area and will be able to handle both dangerous and non-dangerous goods.
Agility provides logistics services in Malaysia with 500 employees, seven offices and 50,000 square meters of warehouse space. Its Malaysia office serves customers in a range of industries, comprising automotive, hi-tech, retail, renewable energy and telecommunications.
Our comment; To drive a green initiative in Malaysia, we should look at the commercial sector. The focus should be more on the whole supply chain. The closed loop supply chain from the source until the end plus with the extension of the reverse supply chain, from procurement, manufacturing and packaging, storage, distribution and recycling.
While it is very good for this company (Agility) to start with their green building, we hope the manufacturers (their customers) will also playing their role for this green initiative.
The companies can start by looking at their 4Ps; Processing, Partners, People and Profitability.
We are saying the best approach for greening our transportation is by looking at the whole supply chain. Not by the transportation alone. We hope this will be a good start from the 3rd party logistics like Agility to initiate this green agenda in Malaysia.
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