Quantum develops a website for the London Freight Club
21.12.2007
The long-established London
Freight Club (LFC) has launched its first ever website, designed and developed
by Quantum Business Solutions & Outsourcing (Quantum BSO), the
Bangalore-headquartered global software provider, which specialises in products
for the global shipping and transportation industries. Details of the new
internet site – www.londonfreightclub.com - were revealed to members and their
guests on 13 December at the club’s Grand Christmas Luncheon.The new website provides extensive details of the club’s history and current activities including luncheons, golf days and various special events. Further pages to be developed later include a Business Guide section where members will be able to post business opportunities and flag up job vacancies.
According to Quantum, the site has been designed in such a way that it can easily be expanded. Quantum’s UK-based Head of Sales Europe, Alok Sharma, explains: “As with any organisation establishing its first website, its users will soon identify additional material that they think should be incorporated. Our hope is that members will find the LFC website becoming a useful tool, assisting them in their day-to-day business and extending their opportunities to network. We believe too that the website will bring the activities of the club to the attention of a wider audience, both in the UK and overseas.”
A relatively new member and supporter of the LFC, having established a presence in the UK market only recently, Quantum realised that it could make an immediate and valuable contribution to the club’s activities by offering to develop an LFC website, so enhancing communications with existing and potential members.
Keith Haynes, the current chairman of the LFC and Southern Area Sales Manager for CSAV Group Agencies (UK) Ltd, was delighted to accept Quantum’s offer, noting that a website would, amongst other things, significantly extend the LFC’s global reach, enabling shipping executives around the world to stay in touch with their colleagues in the South-East of England and perhaps arrange to attend LFC events when in town. The LFC was established in 1953 “to further the interests of the shipping profession and to promote and develop the spirit of goodwill”. Over the past 54 years, it has of course become an extremely important networking organisation with approximately 350 members. Its frequent luncheons regularly attract around 200 members and guests. Membership is open to those employed in the liner shipping and forwarding industries, including in recent years those working in ancillary industries.
