Dear Members & Friends,

Welcome back to Bangkok! As we celebrate our 8th year, we would like to invite you to our annual group meeting to reconnect with each other as we rediscover Bangkok, known to the Thais as "City of Angels".

As a family of quality freight forwarders, Combined Logistics Networks have witnessed the world economy going through a severe recession marked by financial turmoil, large-scale destruction of wealth, and declines in industrial production and global trade. Also as a network, we have stood together and managed the risks posted to the freight forwarding industry and have continued to expand business opportunities amongst ourselves despite the economic turmoil.

For 2010, as we start to recover, we must build strong foundations for sustained and broad-based growth in a globalized world. It is very important that we nurture our relationship and extend a helping hand with each other as we climb the global ladder. In this regard, a very intimate conference which is open to members only and a few selected freight forwarders from the networks' open territories will be held for the networks at Shangri-la Hotel Bangkok on May 25-30, 2010 to discuss current and future trade between members within a secured financial environment.

The Bangkok conference will focus on your favorite face-to-face meetings to ensure that members of our group meet to explore areas of new business to mutual benefit.

For more information, visit the conference website: www.combinedlogisticsnetworks.com/bangkokmeeting or email us at bangkokmeeting@combinedlogisticsnetworks.com.

To register, please visit www.combinedlogisticsnetworks.com/bangkokmeeting/registration.asp

See you in Bangkok!

A warmest thank you for all CFN members who have supported The Freight Summit held last October 27-31, 2009 at the The Venetian Macao Resort and Hotel.

We will keep you posted if Macau is still our next venue by next year!

CLN recently concluded another successful annual meeting last May 26 - 30, 2009. The 7th annual meeting of the group was designed to provide a more intimate environment for the members to spend quality time with each other. CLN highly believes that with more intimate relationships and partnerships, the networks are capable in developing more opportunities.

On behalf of CLN we thank you to all the SeaConsol Network members who have attended and supported the 7th Annual Meeting that was held last May 26 - 31, 2009 at the Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

True to its aim of having a strong and competitive alliance, Combined Logistics Networks' new initiative is focused on visiting members and seeking new members from regions that are not yet represented in the networks.

Countries we have visited:
- Singapore
- Indonesia

We will keep you posted where CLN's next stop will be!

To achieve SCN's goal to provide all members the capability to communicate and process orders under 1 communications and track and trace software, Combined Logistics Networks signed off a service level agreement with a software company based in Australia named Pangaea effective April 1, 2006.

This will bring us in par with the capabilities of global outfits that are currently miles ahead of us in the field of IT, and have eaten successfully into the independent forwarders market successfully. read more

Part of Alliance Development is the increase of projects and introduction of new added value services.

We are proud to announce the improved Safety Net Program of SeaConsol Network that guarantees the following benefits:

a. Secured payments between members
b. Further Monitoring of payment habits and reporting to the membership pool.
c. Facilitation of disputes if contractual.
d. Guarantee of defaulting members (non-payment due to inability to pay).
e. Higher guaranteed receivables of USD 20,000.
f. Covered security program between paid SeaConsol Network members.
g. More extensive screening of members to join the pool.

There is nothing to worry doing business within the paid members of SeaConsol Network.