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From our UK office a EUF routing, and ETC International Freight System are clearing the US Customs with out in-house customhouse broker a shipment on behalf of RBC Construction in Massachusetts that is either importing one of these in a knocked-down format, or just parts for an existing unit (I think it’s the former).
We always show the innovative shipments coming through our freight network. One anoter shipment that ETC Inbternational Freight System (sales@etcinternational.com) air freighted to Casablanca were quadskis (land & water off-roading)
Rami Khoury www.superbuytires.com also had ETC International Freight System (www.etcinternational.com) involved with Uncle Dunkel with a roll on roll off to Dubai
Here were the specs on the 2 Vehicles that ETC Freight System shipped to Dubai,
1) 2008 custom built F650 Truck 2x4
Width 108" Length 396" Height 138"
Weight 25,000 LBS
2) 2008 Custom Built F650 4x4
Width 108" Length 396" Height 150"
Weight 26,000 LBS
Here is a picture of one of the 2 trucks that we shipped to Dubai.
From ETC International Freight System (1-800-3833157)
In the world of mass production, poor expertise & lack of personal engagement adds unexpected costs & aggravation. ETC Intl. Freight System, has no aspiration to be the K-Mart of the forwarding business.
We are independently owned & although part of an industry highly regulated, we help you close the gap to manage your shipments from inception to end. Our employees’ knowledge & dedication are of paramount importance in the services that we render, which bear our name. Customer satisfaction is the guiding principle for all our activities.
Celebratinf this year, our 30th anniversary:
Part 2
Beyond the pathway that led me to freight forwarding over 33 years ago with the incorporation of what became ETC International Freight System in the summer of 1984.
In July of 1984 the international freight corporation was set up. The corporate name is still P Malinbaum Company with our first doing business as (DBA): Euro Transport Connections. I started as a one-man show on Hindry Avenue in Inglewood having one private office inside a bigger office space occupied by a customhouse broker. The business arrangement was that I
would direct as many customs clearances from the import traffics through their office under my billing against a free space. We had the warehouse downstairs and this set-up worked pretty well. It was a time where type writers and a telephone line were kings. My biggest expenses, aside from feeding my family, were the telephone bills & the Yellow Pages ads.
This savvy set-up succumbed to a lease termination too quickly and led the way to a Japanese freight forwarder moving in. I lost the private office & rented some desk space near the bathroom. The broker was gone & I re-established a rapport with Edward P. Tallon Customhouse broker; to this day we still work together. My wife Lori joined me, and mostly sat down at the desk handling the accounting while I was standing by her on the
telephone and typed up my air waybills & invoices. At that time, I successfully applied for my International Administration Transportation Agency (IATA) license & slowly began adding some air export shipments to my air import shipments. I do not remember how long we survived parked next to the bathroom … but the business grew everyday along with my wife’s belly, pregnant with our daughter Sacha.
Sometimes in 1985 I moved down the street to a one-story new office building & warehouse. I added an employee … and our baby Sacha in her play-pen next to my wife in her office for a year. We evolved into some ocean import freight & purchased our first word processor -- a type writer with a screen to its side. I was my own warehouse worker and used to off-load
ocean containers of latex gloves (among other commodities) all by myself. I had to do this after regular business hours to keep the sales & documentation going during the daytime. Moses Posada joined our company at the age of 21; twenty-six years later he is still with us, sharing great stories and a long history. Along with Moses in the office, Dimitri, our latest newborn jumped in the office play-pen the first 6 months of his life. I had to fire him, as he was too loud and disturbed our telephone communications! By then we had a telex machine to communicate with the agents, but this later perished with the birth of the facsimile machine and our first archaic computer.
By 1988, we became licensed by the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC). About that time, we also obtained our Non-Vessel Operational Common Carrier (NVOCC) bond offering import & export consolidation as well as straight container load services for industrial, commercial, & household goods customers.
In the years that followed, we added several employees & handled quite a few more monthly shipments; before long added import and export services for personal effects & automobiles. We felt it a natural progression to offer packing & loading using our own crew on-site or in-house. We handled the trucking, insurance, warehouse, packing & loading, shipping, letter of credit & overseas clearance & delivery -- whether shipping household goods, commercial, or industrial shipments as well as oversized permit cargo.
In 1993, we moved to our new location in Compton with about 12,000 square feet of warehouse. We were loading weekly containers of autos (multiple cars doubled decked) among other products & were involved for years with the wheel & medical industries. We shipped an entire plant (Tatabanya, Hungary) and followed up with handling their import & export shipments that followed. At that time, we also were involved in partial chartering. The 90s were fabulous under the Clinton era for most businesses. Our first hard hit was, like the rest of the country, on September 11, 2001. Our air department saw the sales decreasing by 1 million dollars. We had to recoup from that and adjust like many other companies to many new expansive regulations. The ocean exports were growing & kept us afloat through 2005. Then, under the George W. Bush era, we started to feel the decline in business and by 2006 through 2010 it got from bad to worse. We had lost 50% of the personnel, moved out of the bigger building and regrouped in a smaller office with the emphasis on marketing & sales, keeping our overhead down.
In 2009, Dimitri was “re-hired”; he joined the firm at 22 years old and experienced the hard times as well as the re-building we have experienced since then. Like myself, he was trained in all the venues of ETC and he is presently our VP Sales. I can say that since 2010, we are growing and expanding again. In 2010 Danna Creal joined us in the management team; Danna is making a great personal contribution to ETC International Freight System. Danna
is like family -- caring & trust-worthy.
Happy together, now a second generation business about to celebrate 30 years since our creation, more ready than ever to make a difference in our lives as well as our customers’ shipments. To conclude here, we want to express our sincere thanks to our customers, especially the ones that have been helping us since the early years by entrusting their goods to our dedicated staff that is making ETC International Freight System the family that we are.
Tempas Fugit!
