Carriers get together and create new logistics operator
Valor Econômico
Antonio Wrobleski Filho, former-president of the subsidiary of Ryder in Brazil, is concluding the merger of five small- and medium-sized carriers this week. The area of operation of the new company will, at first, be the states of the South and Southeast. The announcement is scheduled for next Monday, at a hotel in São Paulo. As Valor found out, the announcement will concern the merger of the operations of Fantinati, Ajofer, Transvec, Trans-Postes and XV de Novembro. In the end of 2006, the five companies had already entered into a partnership that resulted in the creation of the Mestra Log logistics operator, headquartered in Sao Bernardo do Campo (SP). The five carriers are located in the region of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (ABC Region). According to the invitation for the announcement sent to press, Mestra Log will have a fleet with more than one thousand trucks and total area of nearly 250 thousand square meters. Together, the five carriers own more than 20 branches spread out through the South and Southeast of the country.
Currently, the company already provides services of transportation, logistics, retroport services and storage. After the announcement of the merger, Mestra Log intends to operate in the North and Northeast as well, besides operating in other South American countries, like Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Colombia. Among the main clients Ryder had in the country to whom the logistics operator used to provide exclusive transportation between the plants of Brazil and Argentina were General Motors and Toyota. In an interview to Valor, in the mid of 2007, Wrobleski announced a R$ 13 million investment in the purchase of 50 trucks, which marked the beginning of the operations of the company with its own fleet in the country. Now, ahead of Mestra Log, the executive will have, besides small competitors that represent most of the National market, large companies like Tegma, Julio Simões and Luft.