TGL APAC Is in Hong Kong

TGL APAC has opened in Hong Kong. It is a step we have been working towards for some time, and it adds one of the most strategic trade and logistics hubs in Asia to a network that already runs from Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur through to Sydney, Christchurch and California.

Why Hong Kong

Hong Kong has been the entrance to the Asian continent for decades, a city built on trade, and it still has the infrastructure to prove it: a world class port, an airport that handles more air cargo than almost anywhere else, and a regulatory environment that makes moving goods through it straightforward.

For our clients the practical value is routing. A shipment that would otherwise be split between two providers can now run through one, whether it is consolidating out of the mainland, transhipping between Southeast Asia and Europe, or moving high value cargo by air at short notice.

What the office does

• Air freight. Fast, flexible capacity out of one of the busiest cargo airports in the world, for shipments where the date is the whole point.
• Ocean freight. FCL and LCL with the carrier relationships that a hub of this size makes possible, and full visibility over each booking.
• Road and multimodal. Connections into the inland networks across the region, so cargo moves between sea, air and land without the handovers costing a day each.
• Warehousing and distribution. Secure storage and inventory management, for cargo that needs to wait somewhere sensible before it goes on.
• Customs brokerage. Classification, documentation and compliance handled at the point where most delays are actually created.

Where it sits in the network

TGL APAC now has people in Vietnam, Malaysia, China, India, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. The point of a network is not the number of pins on the map. It is that the person handling the origin and the person handling the destination work for the same company, answer to the same service standard, and can be reached by the same account manager. Hong Kong fills in a part of the map where a great deal of our clients’ cargo already passes through.