Wim Meiling had always told his wife that should a suitable job in the Caribbean come along, he would take it. The logistics specialist had been stationed there for two years when he was in the Marine Corps - where he served for six years - and the island group has always attracted him.
This fall, that dream becomes a reality. On the Indeed website, Wim indeed came across a logistics manager vacancy at Fresh Supplier Bonaire, a job that seemed right up his alley. "I applied, and we had good conversations. Last week I met with them, and I'm starting permanently in October," he says.
Dutch retail entrepreneur Gerard van den Tweel of the Van Den Tweel Caribbean Group founded Fresh Supplier Bonaire. He sold the business several years ago but remains a shareholder. Besides the wholesale business, the group also consists of several supermarkets.
"The company supplies fresh and frozen products, including plenty of fruit and vegetables, to stores and the hospitality sector on Bonaire. They use local products, but there are many imports from, for example, the Netherlands and America, too," Wim explains. "A lot of convenience products are also flown in. Everything has to get to the island. As logistics manager, my job is to steer those flows in the right direction. I'm really looking forward to it."
His work at Tarieven Specialist - a business Wim began to advise on temperature-sensitive products' logistics and transport - will, thus, go on the back burner. "I'll, in fact, be doing this for Fresh Supplier Bonaire. I've always found it challenging to analyze companies' logistics rates to see if it can be done smarter and better by, say, setting up new logistics networks or simply reducing costs," Wim concludes.
For more information:
Wim Meijling
Tarieven Specialist
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Email: info@tarievenspecialist.nl
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