NOL Group wins prestigious Award for E-Commerce Innovation

The NOL Group's commitment to IT innovation has been recognized with the presentation of a prestigious e-commerce award for e-logistics from a consortium of IT leaders last night.

The NOL Group is a global organization engaged in logistics, shipping and related activities, headquartered in Singapore.

The e-awards were established in Singapore in 2000 and are judged by senior representatives of the high-powered members who make up the e-Awards Secretariat behind the awards: Accenture, Cisco Systems, Compaq, EMC, i2Technologies, Microsoft, CommerceNet, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and Hewlett-Packard.

"Our industry is typically regarded as 'old economy' -- asset-heavy and none too fast on its feet. At NOL we're changing that," said Hans Hickler, Senior Vice President, Information Strategy and Customer Support for NOL Group subsidiary APL. "We're using the strength of our assets and the innovation of IT to change the way we do business. E-commerce allows customers to transact with us anytime, anywhere, and in any format. This award is independent recognition that we're getting it right," he said.

"E-commerce also cuts the mountain of paper that is associated with world trade," Mr. Hickler added. "That means cost savings for both our customers and us. We will continue to use e-commerce to make it easier for customers to do business with us and to take cost and pain out of the supply chain."

Mr. Hickler thanked the e-Awards organization for its recognition. He said that the investigation of NOL's involvement in e-commerce across the logistics and container transportation businesses was thorough. "We were pleased to be asked to articulate and demonstrate both our achievements and our strategy for the future as part of qualifying for consideration of this award," he said. "The award is particularly valuable coming from such industry leaders."

NOL Group subsidiary, APL, is no stranger to IT awards. Recently it was the only global carrier to be named in InformationWeek magazine's 500 list for IT excellence, and the only carrier to be ranked by BtoB magazine as having one of the top B2B websites.