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“Generally speaking, the standard Global, however it was the big suppliers He said quality remained the buzz
for the cruise ships is higher than cargo who were surviving as the business had word in competing for orders and B &

ships and sometimes they will request a changes so dramatically to become more S Bosman Global was not prepared to
special brand or a special producer. You about logistics and inance and therefore compromise on this in order to seal deals.

need to be able to get it, or an equivalent suppliers needed the capability and “Quality will survive. If you only want to

brand, for them.”licensing to store US products for the big do the lowest price, afterwards you will get
The cruise sector business is cruise lines.a lot of complaints because the quality is

certainly growing for Golden Harvest, not good. Either we lose the order because “
especially since the growth of the cruise we are a little bit too expensive but on the

market in general in the Far East.other side we want to have a good quality
“Here in China, the cost of going on a and no complaints afterwards.”Recently, because of

cruise is not so high,” he explained.Mr Chen said the ship supply market in
“You can go from Shanghai to Korea China had remained very competitive too.the MLC, we are facing

and Japan and Taiwan are also very near, “The margin is coming down because the issue of talking
so in three or four days you can go there everybody wants to get orders. If your

and back, so it is very convenient to do so.price is low they will choose you.”nutritional facts

“Before we had most of our business He said spending had gone down
with the cargo ships and now we are but as the market was cyclical everyone Martin, Wirz, Kloska Group

trying to change this,” said Mr Chen.was expecting it to go up again. “Much International
Indeed, Golden Harvest, which depends on the economy of the country.””

covers all the Chinese ports as well as Kloska’s Mr Wirz said: “The recent
having customers worldwide, recently developments on our side have been the

won a contract to supply the Costa cost reduction developments that we “The cruise business is still strong.
cruise line and it also has contacts with are facing, the need for quicker reply. We You have to be able to store huge

Royal Caribbean.don’t have the same time that we used to volumes of products and you have to be
Mr van Esch said the cruise sector have to deal with certain enquiries. It’s able to inance them and you have to be

was also still strong for B & S Bosmanall becoming a little bit faster paced.” uable to distribute all over Europe.”

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